I'm paying the price of being away ...now have to do RSS and Wikis in this week if I wish to stay on schedule. Must admit I have sometime ago set up some RSS feeds in Bloglines....but at that time it did not register much. Plus I did not have a look until doing my homework now. So it is good to be able to conceptualize this abit more. I went for news feeds as I seldom have time for the newspapers..so often relying on the radio as I travel to work and so thought having the feeds at my workstation would be another avenue. Thankfully there is a "read all" button and I suspect the system only keeps X-number of postings, otherwise it could be overwhelming if one didn't check often...my case!
But I can see a nice current awareness potential in these feeds for us to re-direct information to specific users or maybe even group of users. Features like able to clip(remember there was a time clipping was a library activity. Perhaps we could create a clipping folder on a topic for posting to a blackboard site-- does suggest partnering with the unit co-ordinator etc. Or if from the reference service point a particular topic has been regular, maybe we could do a mini clipping file.
I have added some fun (but newsy) RSS like Daily Show Videos as they take the "mickey" out of well known personalities.
With the EBSCO activity one needed to set up a profile and I didn't get an e-mail but in doing the alert and choosing to receive the alert via RSS, it did give me the URL. But herein I found some frustration as Klickety metioned Bloglines kept saying no feeds were found. Then the penny dropped...I noticed our WAM bits attached to the URL...removing them and "magically" it worked!
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
In the Beginning....
Hi everyone on the pilot!
Last week was a "breeze" I guess as now we now come to the nuts and bolts in this journey of discovery! Actually there were a few interesting readings and it is amazing to note that the concept is really what we use to have re all the discussion groups etc but now maybe visually more appealing and convenient with the linking technology available.
The setting of the Gmail account was fine but I was slightly concerned with adding yet another account for the flood of more e-mails....but hopefully this would be confined to the blog!
I actually was trying to do the whole setting before starting on the posting ...so working with the tabs, so that I could comment on the experience. But it didn't seem so obvious so a quick chat and a team member said it seemed to move on like the helpful "wizard" but the posting was done first. So I will end this post and try and see if I get to the next step easily.
Last week was a "breeze" I guess as now we now come to the nuts and bolts in this journey of discovery! Actually there were a few interesting readings and it is amazing to note that the concept is really what we use to have re all the discussion groups etc but now maybe visually more appealing and convenient with the linking technology available.
The setting of the Gmail account was fine but I was slightly concerned with adding yet another account for the flood of more e-mails....but hopefully this would be confined to the blog!
I actually was trying to do the whole setting before starting on the posting ...so working with the tabs, so that I could comment on the experience. But it didn't seem so obvious so a quick chat and a team member said it seemed to move on like the helpful "wizard" but the posting was done first. So I will end this post and try and see if I get to the next step easily.
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