1. December 17, 2009 CCWG RSS Feeds on ERCOT.com Amy Apodaca Web Content Coordinator

2. 2 Progress of Developing RSS Feeds Deployment date no later than January 11 Demo feeds from California ISO and Five initial feeds: –Press Release –Training –Protocol Library –PRR –Daily Grid Ops Report Other suggestions? Meeting Title (optional)Date

3. 3 Meeting Title (optional)Date RSS Feed Definition What is a RSS Feed? –RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication –RSS is a subscription service that notifies subscribers when new content has been published to a web page. What are the advantages of RSS Feeds –A user is notified immediately of published updates to a website –A user can collect content from multiple websites and stay updated without visiting each site often. –Feeds can contain a simple link to the source or the complete content including attachments –Reduces messages in mailbox (doesn’t use email address) –Email (as well as other private info) cannot be sent to third parties; user’s name are not requested

4. 4 Meeting Title (optional)Date Software to run RSS Feeds Is special software needed to operate RSS Feeds –RSS requires a “feed reader” or aggregator to display feeds –Most readers are available as freeware Google Reader Microsoft Outlook ‘07 Newsgator FeedDemon Awasu Bloglines Yahoo MSN

5. 5 ERCOT’s RSS Feeds ERCOT will offer the following RSS Feeds and add more as suggested by CCWG: –Press Release –Training –Protocol Library –PRR –Daily Grid Ops Report http://www.ercot.com/news/press_releases/ http://www.ercot.com/services/training/ http://www.ercot.com/mktrules/protocols/library/index http://www.ercot.com/mktrules/protocols/prr http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/congestion/operations/ Meeting Title (optional)Date

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