Covering a community beat means paying attention to the offbeat news sources such as community bulletin boards, church bulletins and nonprofit web pages. Community organizations and neighborhood bloggers may have an RSS feed as part of their Web site. Originally an acronym for “Rich Site Summary,” the term RSS is defined today as “Really Simple Syndication.”

You can grab RSS feeds and re-post them on your own web page or blog. I’ll walk you thru the steps.

• Grab a Denver Post RSS feed.
• Paste the link into Feed2Javascript.
  
• Take the Feed2Javascript output and paste it into your blog.

Other online resources for community news include craigslist.org and googlegroups.