Here are two great ways to stay up to date with news about meetings, events, newsletters, actions and other timely content from the Montana Women For blog.

One is to make this site’s URL your home page or the default page in your browser. In Firefox or Netscape, go to Preferences and make http://www.momtanawomenfor.org your home page or default page. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Options.

Another good idea is to use our RSS feed. This allows you to create a Live Bookmark that you can place in your Bookmarks/Favorites, or keep in your personal toolbar (those bookmarks that appear at the top of your browser). What makes it a “live” bookmark is that it will automatically keep track of new items added to the site you’ve bookmarked.

Internet Explorer (IE) users who are using IE versions before Version 7 will have to download a plugin to get their browsers to recognize Live Bookmarks, or what IE calls “Live Favorites.” Like everything else about Microsoft’s IE browser, this is a pain in the neck and comes encumbered with other Microsoft stuff you don’t need, but when I figure out how you can get this functionality w/o the garbage, I’ll post it here. (You’d be happier and safer using Firefox in the first place, and it is available via free download.)

Here’s how to use the RSS feed in Firefox:

• Click our Site Feeds link (near the bottom of the sidebar at right):
• This will open the same dialog box you use for adding any Bookmark/Favorite:

• Choose the folder where you want to keep the Live Bookmark (in the example above, I chose the Personal Toolbar Folder so that the link would be prominent).
• Then, when you want to see if anything new has been posted, just click on that Live Bookmark, and a list of recent posts will appear:
• Click the post you want to read. This list is automatically updated whenever new posts are created on the Montana Women For blog.

Without even going to the site, you can tell that something new has been posted and you can go directly to that new post.

Other browsers: If you are using IE on the Mac (are you a masochist?), or even Safari, you are on your own I’m afraid. Netscape and Firefox are so far superior and available for free, so I strongly recommend getting one or the other.