RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed format that publishes frequently updated information. Examples of helpful RSS placement on your e-government website include:

• Calendar events

• News Feeds

• Road construction

• Job Postings

• Bid Postings

• Blogs

• Emergency Alerts

• And any quickly changing area!

Additionally works with audio, video and other standardized formats. RSS documents, also referred to as "feeds" or "web feed" and even "channels" includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.

Benefit to Publishers include letting them syndicate content automatically to self-subscribed constituents.

Benefit to Readers provides the ability to self-subscribe to timely updates from favorite e-government website, or aggregate fees from many sites into one place for quick reference. (For example if commercial real-estate developer where to research several communities RSS allows them to quickly go to that project folder and review community activities.)