Which RSS feeds can you find on the FEB website?

Do you want to keep up to date with FEB's news but don't want to regularly trawl through every page on our site looking for updates? FEB provides an RSS feed covering multiple topics. The feed provides titles, brief summaries and publication times.
This is an easy way to receive a fast and concise overview of any topics covered at http://www.feb.be/ that are of interest to you. It also gives you a chance to find out what FEB is up to. If you see an interesting title in your RSS feed reader, just click on it and you will be taken to the relevant page on the FEB website.
Below we explain these concepts and how to use them.

How do you subscribe to FEB's RSS feed?

To subscribe to the topics on our site, select the section that interests you from this list:

- paste the links below in your feed reader
- or follow the instructions for your feed reader.

• Press
  - Press Releases
  - Speeches
  - Interviews
  - Open Forum
  - Audio
  - Video
  
  
• Events (agenda)
  
  
• Issues
  - Entrepreneurship
  - SMEs
  - Labour and Social Security
  - Safety and Security
  - Tax
  - Corporate Governance
  - Company Law
  - Energy & Environment
  - Telecoms & Transport
  - Europe
  - International Business
  - Macroeconomics
  - Interprofessional Agreements
  
  
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What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats. The abbreviation RSS can stand for three things:

• RDF Site Summary (where RDF stands for Resource Description Framework);
• Rich Site Summary;
• Really Simple Syndication.

It is an XML application used by websites to make links to articles available to anyone who is interested. It can save a lot of time that would otherwise be spent surfing and searching.
Websites offering RSS provide a piece of XML code containing the title, a summary and a link to the relevant articles. The feed reader regularly collects and bundles together new articles (the newsfeed) and sends it to the user.
The major advantage is that you, the reader, can decide ahead of time which topics are of interest to you. That ensures you are sent the information you want.

Using a browser to read RSS (for ex. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari)

Some websites give you the chance to put together your own web page consisting of titles of your favourite RSS feeds.

Examples:

• http://www.24.be/ (the only site in Belgium pioneering the use of widgets, offering many customisable applications)
• news.google.be
• http://www.start.com/
• http://www.newsisfree.com/
• my.msn.com
• my.yahoo.com (also features widgets)

RSS readers

There are also RSS readers (sometimes called newsreaders) you can use to read RSS files as well as manage and customise RSS feeds. They offer the advantage of not only using a web browser but of sitting separately on your PC desktop and running in the background while you are busy with other things. The programme notifies you when something changes on one of the sites to which you are subscribed.
You can find many different RSS readers online (some free, some not). A few examples are given below (along with the relevant operating systems supported).

• Radio Userland (Mac, Windows)
• Awasu (Windows)
• AmphetaDesk (Linux, Mac, Windows)
• Bloglines (web-based)
• Bottomfeeder (Linux, Mac, Unix, Windows)
• FeedDemon (Windows)
• FeedReader (Windows)
• Google Reader (web-based)
• Intravnews for Outlook
• NetNewsWire (Mac)
• NewzCrawler (Windows)
• Raggle (Linux, Unix, via terminal)
• RSS Popper for Outlook and Outlook Express
• RSSReader.nl (Windows)
• RSSowl
• Sage for FireFox
• Snownews (Linux, Unix, via terminal)

The Mozilla Firefox browser has a built-in RSS reader called 'Live Bookmarks'. You can download the Mozilla Firefox browser free of charge.

Conditions for using RSS on non-FEB media

You may use the RSS feeds available free of charge from http://www.vbo-feb.be/ and http://www.vbo-feb.eu/, provided you comply with the following conditions.

You may not use the RSS feeds for commercial purposes or in connection with a fee-paying service. When using feeds, you must clearly indicate that the source is the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB) and you must provide a link to the corresponding article at http://www.vbo-feb.be/ or http://www.vbo-feb.eu/.

The RSS feeds may not be used on sites whose content breaches public order or common decency, is discriminatory, offensive, slanderous or injurious, or which in any way violates the rights of others or in any way breaches Belgian law. Please refer to the full disclaimer on the website.

Using links does not entitle you to associate FEB with your site in any way whatsoever.

You agree that FEB is not liable for any problems you have with or pursuant to using RSS feeds. FEB remains responsible for the content of its topics, but you are responsible for how you use the links and you indemnify FEB against any claims by third parties in this respect.

FEB is entitled to request that you immediately cease using its RSS feeds. FEB also reserves the right to modify the conditions of use or to stop providing the feeds.

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