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2011-08-01	Third Light IMS v6.0 is released	Open
2011-07-07	Image quality and JPEG compression articles	Open
2011-06-20	Use your own domain name with Third Light	Open
2011-06-01	IMS v6.0 user interface update	Open
2011-01-24	Are your administrators signed up to our newsletter?	Open
2011-01-18	Using tree metadata - taxonomies	Open
2010-12-07	Languages and Translations	Open
2010-11-25	Third Light Twitter feed	Open
2010-11-23	Apple Aperture an Adobe Lightroom Plugins	Open
2010-10-01	IMS Appliance Update Packs	Open
2010-08-24	Themes, Languages and Smarty Templates	Open
2010-04-08	Duplicate Image Detection	Open
2010-03-04	Publishing Files	Open
2009-12-08	Adobe Bridge Plugin for IMS	Open
2009-11-01	User Groups	Open
2009-10-20	User Registration Forms	Open
2009-08-26	Saving and sharing lightboxes	Open
2009-06-20	Using Feeds with Smart Folders	Open
2009-02-26	Adding customised fields to the search engine	Open
2008-09-02	GPS mapping	Open
2008-08-11	Download Requests	Open
2008-07-11	Upload Approvals	Open
2008-05-02	Signature Photos	Open
2008-04-03	Using price plans, licence plans and subvendors	Open
2008-03-12	Smart Folders	Open
2008-03-12	Controlled Vocabulary tools	Open
2008-03-12	Reviewing recent searches	Open
2008-03-12	Expiring images	Open
2008-03-11	Technical support	Open

Using Feeds with Smart Folders

RSS and Atom are both technical terms referring to ways of sharing content in a widely accepted, interchangeable format. You will often see feeds represented by this icon: Atom feeds are supported in popular feed readers (RSS readers) such as IE7, Safari, Firefox, Google Reader and Bloglines.

IMS allows Atom feeds to be created for Smart Folders. To do this, click on the checkbox labeled "Provide a feed for this folder" when you create or edit a Smart Folder.

Attaching a feed to a Smart Folder makes it publicly accessible, much like an album that has been made available for public search. Anyone who knows the URL of the feed can subscribe to that feed and can click through to see the pictures in the Smart Folder.

Using feeds provides a convenient way to keep in touch with clients. For example, IMS feeds can:

• Make it easy for your clients to receive recent photo updates for topics they are interested in, by establishing a Smart Folder for the topic (indexed on keywords or captions) and sending them the feed URL
• Publicise your IMS by creating a Smart Folder of signature images and sending the feed URL to prospective clients
• For a multi-day event allow the event managers to automatically add your recent photos to their site by including your feed
• Easily display your photos in Web sites such as Facebook, iGoogle (personalised Google home pages) or Microsoft's live.com, all of which can integrate feed data into their site and so display your thumbnails in a widget.

Added Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:29:19 +0100

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