The Growing Our Community website is undergoing an overhaul that will make the website into a better resource for our visitors. Not only will we be posting news with greater regularity, we’ll be working at building this site into a resource for community activists, with links to other sites and more contact information than you can shake a stick at.
Bear with us, and check back soon!
Tracking
We don’t directly track your presence on this website. Your IP address is logged and we look at the server logs on occasion, but this is in an aggregate fashion for the purpose of determining why people come to Growing Our Community. We’re most interested in two things: The websites that link to Growing Our Community and send traffic here, and the keywords people use to find Growing Our Community via search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Links and comments
If you leave a link in a comment, we’ll probably follow the link, even if the link is a Blogger.com profile. We’re assuming you want us to find you if you make your contact information easy to find.
Cookies
We don’t set cookies directly from Growing Our Community, but we do run a number of scripts from providers such as Google, Reinvigorate, and Amazon. All of these providers set web browser cookies. Google in particular quietly collects a tremendous amount of data on your browsing habits, and Growing Our Community participates in that data collection. If that bugs you, please drop us a line to let us know how you feel about this and we’ll consider removing Google’s service from this website.
Updated: 28 February 2008
RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, which is a series of web feed formats that are used to publish content on websites that are updated frequently. These feeds contain the most relevant information for the content it describes, typically providing the entry’s time and title, along with at least some of the main copy.
If you see the RSS icon in the address bar of your web browser, the page that you are reading is serviced by an RSS feed. If you click on the icon in the address bar, you’ll be directed to your preferred subscription service (see below).
Users can scan the content of many sites quickly with a well-designed RSS reader and keep tabs on their favourite sites without actually visiting them before new content has been posted. There are a number of different RSS readers that collect feeds from selected sites and we’ve created a list of of a few of the more popular readers below:
Those three options should cover most people, but feel free to add your favourites using the comment box below. Use the links to other sites on our front page to find more blog feeds, and don’t forget to check your daily news sites — many of them use RSS too!
