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

2. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission Publications with RSS Feeds Policies & Instruments http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_policies.xml http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_policies.xml News releases http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_news.xml http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_news.xml Event notices http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_events.xml http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/RSS/rss_events.xml

3. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission Events: RSS button

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5. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission 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. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission 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. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission Technical Considerations What version of RSS to use: 1.0, 2.0, Atom (we chose 2.0) Added this code to all pages: What tags to use What to put in each tag Dublin Core

8. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission 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. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission 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. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission BCSC Strategy Promoting RSS to exchanges, SROs, other regulatory partners Promoting RSS to law firms, dealers, company associations

11. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission Future Plans Adding RSS feeds for new investment products and investor alerts Adding email subscription services Improving existing services

12. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission 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. RSS Feeds at the BC Securities Commission Questions? Christina Zeller 604-899-6737 czeller@bcsc.bc.ca