Your local newspaper probably includes items "taken off the wires" from news organizations like UPI, AP and Reuters. Now your union web site can also include (and create) its own news feeds.

Using automatic news feeds, you can keep your members informed about news concerning the union, the employer and the industry. Your site can be updated on a daily or hourly basis - even when you're not around - and without costing a penny. You'll always have new content to bring your members back to the union web site.

Some news feeds make use of Google or other search engines, while others are taken from specific web sites - for example national AFL-CIO blog at blog.aflcio.org. Your international or state/regional body may offer news feeds of their own.

With Prometheus web sites, it's easy to bring content from news feeds onto your union website, and to decide when and where to display it. For a trusted news source, you might choose to have the most recent news items display automatically. In other cases, you may choose to "moderate" the news feed by selecting which items will be displayed on the site.

In addition to using news feeds from other sites, your web site can also generate a news feed of its own. This feed can be accessed by other union sites, or in members' browsers.

With Prometheus, your web site can become part of a network of unions sharing news and information with one another - without it being filtered and framed by the mainstream media.