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A Live Event feed is a smart way of getting notified of Events, without actually visiting Energycalendar.com yourself.
Instead, a piece of software called a 'News Reader' periodically (from minutes to hours.. as you wish) visits Energycalendar.com on your behalf to check for new Events.
When it finds new Events in the feed, it displays the Event Title, Summary, and a link for you to click on for more information. Clicking on the link then opens your web browser and takes you to the Event page on Energycalendar.com to see the full details.
You can configure your News Reader to subscribe to as many feeds as you wish, and configure it how frequently it should look for new Events in each feed you subscribe to.
EnergyCalendar.com supplies a number of different Event Feeds to match your interests.
In any Event feed, each Event title will be prefixed with the status of the event in square brackets ie.
Tentative - is shown in the feed as [T]
Confirmed - is shown in the feed as [C]
Cancelled - is shown in the feed as [X]
Most of the tabbed section names have their own event feed :
By subscribing to the Weekly Calendar feed, you will be informed of new events happening on a given week (Mon-Sun).
By default, the home page shows this week, but to choose a different week, simply using the calendar to go to the week you are interested in, then subscribe to the feed icon shown.
You can subscribe to feeds for as many different weeks as you wish.
By subscribing to the Search feed, you will be informed of new events that match whatever criteria you set.
For example, to subscribe to all Consumer Solar Events in Europe, go to the Search page, choose 'Solar', 'Consumer' and 'Europe' then Search.
You would then subscribe to the feed icon at the top of Event results list that comes back.
This is very flexible and powerful. You can subscribe to feeds for as many different search criteria as you wish.
By subscribing to the Organiser feed, you will be informed of current and future events for a specific Event Organiser.
You can find the organiser via the 'By Organiser' section, or by viewing the details of an event then clicking on the Organiser 'Profile and Events' link.
You can subscribe to feeds for as many different Event Organisers as you wish.
By subscribing to the Recently Published feed, you will be informed of current and future events that have recently been published.
Each event goes through a status of being 'Tentative', then 'Confirmed', and then possibly 'Cancelled'.
Each status has an Event Feed, so for example to be informed of all Confirmed events, go to the 'Recently Published' page, choose 'Confirmed Events', then subscribe to the feed icon that is returned in the Event results list.
You can subscribe to feeds for all three sub-sections as you wish, but it might be easier to use the 'Search' feed if you want to, and have the events appear in a single feed (rather than subscribing to each separately).
News Readers come in four basic flavours - Browser Based, Website Based, and Software Based.
Browser Based news readers are an integral part of the Browser. The new version of IE7 has a built in News Reader. You simply click on the feed icon, and IE7 tells you the page is an event feed, and asks if you want to subscribe to it.
Web Based news readers do not require you to have any special News Reader software installed, as everything is done from within the website itself. You would register to the site, and then configure the feeds you want. Great for mobile users who need the event feeds from any pc, laptop etc.
Software Based news readers are programs that you would download, install and run as per any other piece of software, and may need to be paid for, but are often more powerful and faster than web-based readers.
Email Based news readers are generally web-based services that you subscribe to, and instead of just displaying the New Event information for (as Web and Software based readers do), they will send you an email containing the event details.
To get a News Reader for yourself, suggest visiting the Google directory of News Readers, which provide a comprehensive list the most commonly used News Readers.
RSS 2.0 is the name of the mechanism/protocol for Feeds, so please make sure that your News Reader is compatible with this. Most modern news readers are.
An 'Event Feed' is really 'just another web page' on the site, except that is is designed to be read by the News Reader instead of you. So it follows that each Event Feed has a unique URL/Website address used by the News Reader to identify it, look for new Events etc, then notify you. You can bookmark and visit a Feed URL in your browser just like any other web page, if you wish.
To configure your news reader with an event, you would normally either drag and drop the feed icon into the news reader, or failing that, click on the icon to get onto the actual feed page, then copy/paste the URL/Website address into the News Reader.
You would then configure it to tell it how frequently you want to check for Events, and you have finished! It will periodically visit the Feed pages that you have requested and display the corresponding events in the News Reader itself.
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