Understand how to leverage feeds using WebSphere Portal

There is a very nice portlet in the Business Catalog called Syndicated Feed Portlet, sometimes called Feed Reader Portlet after its previous version. It's a sweet AJAX-enabled configuration interface where users themselves can add RSS or ATOM feeds at their leisure, create categories of feeds, and drag and drop feeds between these categories.

Here are a few screenshots:




The key to know here is that the easiest way to deploy is just to give the users permission to configure their own version of the portlet (Privileged User), adding and removing feeds as they please.

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