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Microsoft Flow - Create a Teams Message from an RSS Feed

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This is a nice simple Flow that I love!  If you work with a lot of different software and want to keep up to date on the latest changes without having to save all those pesky favourites to various RSS feeds/blogs, this is for you. The great thing about this is, when you start posting it to Teams, now everyone can see when there is an update!  It's only 3 steps, here's how: Create a Blank Flow Add the Trigger ' RSS - When a feed item is published ' Add the ' Data Operations - Compose ' action to create a nicely formatted message to send to teams Add the ' Teams - Post a Message ' action, select your team & channel, and put the Compose Output into the Message box I use this flow to keep up to date on all the latest Microsoft PowerApps news, see the screenshot below for my flow setup.

SharePoint 2010 - RSS Viewer Web Part - Customise the style

For the last few days I've been looking for an example on how to customise SharePoint 2010's OOTB RSS Viewer Web Part, and finally I've found a solution that although it has quite a few steps, the final result is clean code with the ability to use CSS to style the Feed. http://zioed.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/customizing-the-sharepoint-2010-rss-viewer-web-part-part-1-of-a-two-part-post-2/ Thank you Ed. To add to Ed's fantastic post, I will show you a method to create styled RSS feeds without SharePoint Designer.  Once you have found an RSS feed that you would like to manipulate, add the URL to your RSS Viewer Web Part (If you cannot find it in your list of web parts, you need to enable the SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection feature), click Apply, then click the 'XSL Editor...' button.  Copy all of the code into Notepad for ease of editing, and paste it back into the XSL Editor when you are finished. The section of XSL you are looking for is with...