4. The content-hungry techie

Inhouse tech teams are great at software design and data integration - but generating content to populate user-facing applications can be a headache. How could LiveFeeds salve their pain?

The Head of IT wants his successes to be reported to his own peers. Tuning his LiveFeeds to the trade press, he follows stories about the technologies he uses and how other companies are using them, often "borrowing" their ideas to improve his own network infrastructure. Not wanting yet another login, he's got it set up as a daily email that highlights success stories in green.

The sysadmin is a problem solver, and his LiveFeeds is full of Twittering: it's the fastest way to get a grip on the issues roiling around the Linux world, especially when a major site goes down and he needs to find out why. LiveFeeds delivers it - and reviews his choices monthly, saving him from having to add Tweets and delete old ones.

The web editor is constantly asked to add web pages on subject X or Y, but chasing whoever made the request to write something up takes weeks. Instead, he customises LiveFeeds into a newsfeed scoring "Who likes us...." and "Who doesn't..." for the company's website and intranet, prompting people to both read (because it's relevant to customers) and take action (because it puts the company in a bad light.) It's a lot more than a simple RSS feed, yet it's just as easy to integrate with the website.

That's how LiveFeeds can help the IT crowd. See another?

IT people use LiveFeeds "raw data" by integrating its XML and RSS output into their applications