How to Get Troop 16 Announcements Emailed to You

Posted by Mark Abell on August 24, 2010

Do you wish you could receive Troop 16 Announcements by Email? Well, now you can.

Troop 16’s Website has an RSS Feed, which is fancy computer language for “you can receive announcements from the website in your email”. All you need to do is have an email that supports RSS Feeds (like Outlook 2007, AOL, and others). Check with your email provider to see if RSS Feeds are an option you can take advantage of.

For Outlook, here is how you add an RSS Feed:

Subscribe to RSS Feeds found in Windows Internet Explorer

Subscribing to RSS Feeds from Windows Internet Explorer is the fastest and easiest way to add RSS Feeds to Outlook.

1. When you browse to a Web page that contains RSS information, appears next to the Home button.

1. Click .

A list of all available RSS Feeds on the Web page is displayed.

1. Click the RSS Feed that you want to add.
2. When the RSS Feed opens in Internet Explorer, click Subscribe to this feed.

The RSS Feed subscription is added to the Common Feed List (Common Feed List: A list of subscribed RSS Feeds that is saved with your Windows user profile. RSS clients, including Windows Internet Explorer and Outlook, use this list so that you do not have to configure subscriptions in each program.) in Windows. Your RSS Feed subscription is available in Internet Explorer, Outlook, and other programs which use the Common Feed List.

 Tip    On a Web page, you might see , or, . Usually, when you click these icons, you can view and subscribe to the RSS Feed.

You should then see a new folder in your personal folders in Outlook, labeled “RSS Feeds” with a sub-folder labeled “Boy Scouts Troop 16 - Parker, Colorado”.  It’s as simple as that. Each time someone adds a posting to the website, you will get an email with all the same links in that email folder.

If you use one of the other programs, simply search their help menu for instructions on RSS Feeds.