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Re: [syndication] RSS aggregators for non-technical folk



I saw the earlier versions of newsgator, but never tried it because I have limited time and wasn't sure about the license
agreement.   I will try it.

From a usability and selling to execs point of view, outlook integration is easy. Convincing our IT manager (who's team supports outlook) is another story. If from within one client we could blog, Wiki, aggregate, and have threaded discussions in outlook folders we would be set (my opinion). Our IT folk want to avoid any added burden (threaded discussions etc) on the outlook/exchange server because they say it will hurt too performance too much (instead we send word documents to 100 people who each get their own copy in outlook instead of one copy in a folder).
Doug.

Bill Kearney wrote:

There are a couple of aggregators we have found to be "Executive
Friendly" (a term by boss came up with, as he
has seen how RSS works and wants me to promote it through my
organization http://www.pwrm.com as a time-saver).  Syndirellla was
close, requiring the Microsoft .net runtime install (which is actually
pretty lightweight but requires one more step).  I can't recall the name
of the product we actually want to reccomend, some classic windows app.
There certainly are products out there that are usuable enough for
non-technical crowd.   Eventually support in common mail readers will be
mainstream and we won't need a seperate product.

Have you tried Newsgator?  It plugs into Outlook.  If they're already using
Outlook (and most are) then this might one to consider.   Wildgrape is also
looking pretty good.

-Bill Kearney




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