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Video: RSS in Plain English - YouTube - 0 views

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      Welcome to RSS in Plain English. The Internet has problems. Technorati says there are 50 million weblogs, and as you can see, it's going up. This is overwhelming. Today's show is about a new and efficient way to keep up with all this cool stuff that's happening on the Internet. I'm going to talk about two ways that you can keep up with what's happening on the Web. There's the old slow way - Boo. Then, there's the new and fast way - Yay! Here's the difference between the new and the old way. This is you, and here are your favorite websites. You log on to your computer, and you're looking for something new. You go out to your favorite blogs. Anything new? No. You go out to your favorite news sites. Anything new? Nope. Every time you look for something new and its not there, you've wasted valuable time. This is the old way. Now, let's consider the new and fast way, which is simply taking these arrows and turning them the other direction. This means the new things from blogs and new things from your news sites come to you instead. It's like Netflix compared to the video store. So, what we're talking about is using a single website that becomes your home for reading all the new stuff that's coming from your favorite websites. There are two steps to getting started. The first step is you need a home for reading new posts. This is a website called a reader. It is free and all you need is an account. I use a site called Google Reader. It looks like this. My favorite sites are listed on the left, and on the right I can scroll through all the new posts from my favorite sites in a single place. So, to complete step one, you need to sign up for a reader. Google Reader, Bloglines, Newsgator, My Yahoo! are good places to start. Step number two, is to set up a connection between your reader and your favorite websites. Setting up these connections is called subscribing, and it's really important. Nearly every blog and news site offers the ability for you
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    Video: RSS in Plain English. (2007). . Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
Joanne S

Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries - 0 views

  • Already libraries are creating RSS feeds for users to subscribe to, including updates on new items in a collection, new services, and new content in subscription databases.
  • hybrid applications, where two or more technologies or services are conflated into a completely new, novel service.
  • personalized OPAC that includes access to IM, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, tags, and public and private profiles within the library's network.
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    Maness, J. (2006). Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and its Implications for Libraries. Webology, 3(2). Retrieved from http://webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html
Joanne S

What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media - 0 views

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    O'Reilly, T. (2005, September 30). What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media. Retrieved September 10, 2010, from http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html To discover how Tim O'Reilly originally conceptualised Web 2.0, please read the following explanation. Do not worry too much about understanding every web tool mentioned or all the technical processes. Do pay particular attention to the discussion of RSS on page 3 and the different ways that users relate to the web in this vision.
Joanne S

Learning together: using social media to foster collaboration in higher education - 0 views

  • The personal benefits of social bookmarking are obvious to anyone who works on more than one computer. By storing bookmarks on the Internet (or in “the cloud”), social bookmarking services like Diigo,
  • How Can Social Bookmarking Enable Collaborative Working?
  • have been judged by a human to have some value.
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  • population of users on a particular social bookmarking site influences not only the amount but also the type and quality of bookmarks in the system.
  • In all these examples, the community of users is an important factor in ensuring the quality of the resources bookmarked in the system.
  • Social bookmarking tools allow users to classify their bookmarks by assigning tags
  • With regard to information literacy instruction, Luo (2010) found evidence that librarians are using tags to present course-specific resources to students.
  • hey can also be used to engage students in resource discovery
  • This use of social bookmarking initiated from a need to simply collect and share resources but has yielded other benefits. Traditionally in projects of this type, librarians collate lists of resources that are then passed on to the web developer to turn into a web page. This is fairly labour intensive for the web developer and means that any time subject librarians want to add or edit links they have to submit the changes to the web developer. Scholar includes a tool that allows RSS feeds to be created from searches of Scholar tags. In this case, the web developer just created links to the Scholar feeds – rather than manually creating lists of links and descriptions in HTML. As well as saving the initial job of manually creating HTML pages, it allows the page to be dynamic. If a subject librarian wants to add a web resource to the page, all they have to do is to bookmark that page with the appropriate tags in Scholar. The new webpage is automatically added to the feed without the need for the intervention of the web developer.
  • librarians can share each other's discoveries.
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