1 / 13

Enhancing Communication with RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission

The BC Securities Commission launched RSS feeds to meet growing demands for timely policy publications and event notifications. With 75% of survey respondents requesting immediate updates, the commission aims to be the best commission website by utilizing XML support and user-friendly features. Key considerations included selecting RSS 2.0, optimizing promotion strategies, and integrating feeds into the website. Future plans involve expanding feed offerings for new investment products and improving subscription services. For inquiries, contact Christina Zeller at 604-899-6737 or czeller@bcsc.bc.ca.

lis
Download Presentation

Enhancing Communication with RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission Vancouver Association of Law Libraries September 22, 2005

  2. Publications with RSS Feeds • Policies & Instrumentshttp://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_policies.xml • News releaseshttp://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_news.xml • Event noticeshttp://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_events.xml

  3. Events: RSS button

  4. Subscribe

  5. Why did we launch RSS feeds? • Demand for immediate notice of policy publications from 75% of website survey respondents • Demand for immediate notice of events from 60% of respondents • Goal to lead in providing services • Goal to be “best commission website” • Expectation of future demand

  6. What did we consider? • New CMS supports XML • What content to feed • Which button? What colour? • How much information to provide about RSS on the site? • Different feed readers: we tested Bloglines and FeedReader

  7. Technical Considerations • What version of RSS to use: 1.0, 2.0, Atom (we chose 2.0) • Added this code to all pages: • <link href="http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_events.xml" rel="alternate”> • What tags to use • What to put in each tag • Dublin Core

  8. How did we promote? • Added RSS button to all pages that have content that is in a feed • Created subscription page • Submitted to Feedster, Syndic8 • Picked up by Nooked

  9. Feedback on RSS • Know that dealers requested it • Little response from law firms • Picked up in web analytics, spidered • Some interest from media • Need to create a market because it’s a leading edge technology

  10. BCSC Strategy • Promoting RSS to exchanges, SROs, other regulatory partners • Promoting RSS to law firms, dealers, company associations

  11. Future Plans • Adding RSS feeds for new investment products and investor alerts • Adding email subscription services • Improving existing services

  12. Adding Feeds to Your Intranet • RSS Specifications: Everything you need to know about RSS • http://www.rss-specifications.com/displaying-rss-feeds.htm • RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters • http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/

  13. Questions? • Christina Zeller • 604-899-6737 • czeller@bcsc.bc.ca

More Related