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News Feeds & Social Bookmarking
Practical skills for managing
information overload
Ian WatsonKnowledge & Information Manager
Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services
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RSS Really Simple Syndication
Also known as:
News feedsfeedsXML feedssyndicated contentweb feeds
Purpose:
Saves you visiting websites frequently to check for new content
Instead the content is sent to you
News storiesLatest posting to a blogAudioVideo
A short video: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
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Keeping up to dateThe Old Way
Blogshttp://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/
Web siteshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/society
Millions of possible sites to check for anything new
Very time consuming
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Keeping up to dateThe New Way
Look for the symbol on your favourite web sites
Updated content delivered to your computer
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Two Steps1. Choose a readerwww.google.com/readerwww.bloglines.comwww.newsgator.commy.yahoo.com Or use your browser:
Internet ExplorerFirefox
2. Set up a connection between your reader and the web site (known as subscribing)
..... just look for the icon....
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Click on the icon
Click 'Subscribe'
Example, using Internet Explorer 7
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Whenever there is anything new on these sites, you can see at glance in your browser
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You can organise your feeds into folders
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Try finding and setting up feeds from these sites
Newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/rss/3223484.stmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/societyhttp://www.out-law.com/page-5987http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/news.htmhttp://www.theherald.co.uk/features/obituaries/Blogs http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.comOtherhttp://www.iriss.ac.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/feeds/http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/http://www.iriss.ac.uk/grazr
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Make your own feed on you own topic
http://news.google.co.uk/advanced_news_search
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Google Feed ReaderSign up for a Google account: www.google.com/reader Google will offer some bundles of feeds
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Bookmarking The Old WayW
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Problems
• Hierarchical folders are– hard to organise– not easy to search– time consuming to keep-up-date
• Tied to one computer (home / office)• Not shareable
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The New WaySocial Bookmarking• A method for remembering sites you have visited and
sharing them with others.• Tap into other people’s favourites. Similar to
following up references at the end of an article: if you rate the article/author you are likely to find his/her sources useful.
A short video http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
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Three things1. Getting Started
– Register with http://del.icio.us– alternatives: Connotea, Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon
2. Organising using ‘tags’ (keywords)– Install browser buttons
3. Social dimension– Bookmarks are public. Others can see yours and vice versa:
Thus networks are created
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Add the del.icio.us buttons to Internet Explorer http://del.icio.us/help/ie/extension
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After installing buttons, a 'tag' icon appears on the toolbar. Click the icon when you want to bookmarkthe current page.
A dialogue box will appear...
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Type in some tags (keywords) to describe this site
Tags are suggested
You don't have to let others see what you are bookmarking.
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Building a network
Click the delicious button
Your bookmarks on delicious appear
You can search either your own bookmarks or everyone's.
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This page bookmarked by 1082 other people.
Click the link to see who is bookmarking it
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Read what others said about this page
See what other sites
have been bookmarked
by these users
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If you like what this person is bookmarking, you can add him to your network
And you can see who is in his network
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And I will appear as one of his 'fans' – you can choose to add 'fans' to your network or not
Joevans is now in my network
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When you tag a page, you can mark it for the attention of people in your network
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When someone in my network tags something for me I can see it by clicking 'Links for you'
And I can set up an RSS feed to save me visiting del.icio.us to check for new suggestions!