About RSS/XML and Podcasting

 

Podcasting is available on www.cmda.org! Here is some helpful information.

 

What is RSS/XML?

 

Short for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. Allows podcasting text to occur automatically to your MP3 player. Tentative syndicated content includes such data as press releases, events listings, headlines, News & Views, Progress Notes, Today's Christian Doctor and other CMDA publications.

 

What is podcasting?

 

Podcasts are audio clips that you can take with you.

 

A podcast is a means of distributing audio programs via the Internet that lets you subscribe to a number of files, also known as "feeds", and then hear or view the material when you choose. You may listen to them from our website through your web browser, or you may subscribe to our podcast "feed" via iTunes or other software. People commonly listen to a Podcast on their iPod or other MP3 players. Currently available digital audio files include Christian Doctor's Digest and Life Support. (Christian Doctor's Digest is currently only available through our website since this is a CMDA members-only benefit. We have added our Life Support podcast to iTunes.)

 

To listen to a podcast via your MP3 player, click on the XML icon for the podcast you wish to listen to and copy the xml code into your “podcatcher,” or podcasting client software that downloads the audio file automatically to your computer.

 

Stay tuned for future details and updates on CMDA podcasts.