Yesterday at the Grey County Historical Society Board of Directors' meeting, I was talking about blogs and RSS feeds. Just think, two months ago, I knew a little about blogs from visiting a couple, but had never had my own. I certainly knew nothing about feeds, or Youtube. I realized for some I was talking a new language. Even my head was spinning.
Next Wednesday is the meeting at Walter's Falls. It is not too late to sign up for the buffet lunch. You do not have to be a member to attend. One of the benefits of membership is the newsletter. Three times a year you will receive a newsletter filled with interesting articles about Grey County's history.
The other day, I talked about setting up learning goals and tasks in preparation, for next month's meeting. My goal is to have the list of tasks in hand in the next couple of days.
Update September 15 : re meeting & lunch - looks like it is going to be a full house.
Showing posts with label RSS feeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RSS feeds. Show all posts
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
SirsiDynix Institute
I thought I'd talk a little more about the SirsiDynix Institute. If you work in a library and are not familiar with this Institute, I suggest you visit their site. It provides a great "free" learning opportunity for library staff. In addition to the podcasts, you can attend the events live. To participate in the live "conferences" or web seminars you need to pre-register.
You can also go to see the archived video presentation that that gives you the visual along with the audio information. One past topic was RSS feeds. The video starts quickly and it is smooth listening & viewing.
The August 14, 2007 session was on creating a 2.0 Library. (link to the video version). What I found interesting about this session was in the first half, the speaker talked about a project in their library that was not a technology based application. They created a "Travel neighbourhood" where resources relating to travel were put in a separate section. You could still find a specific title via the catalog but it was great for browsing too. Circulation improved. The second half dealt with the library's web site.
For your information OSNGUPL is a SirsiDynix customer with our Unicorn library management software.
You can also go to see the archived video presentation that that gives you the visual along with the audio information. One past topic was RSS feeds. The video starts quickly and it is smooth listening & viewing.
The August 14, 2007 session was on creating a 2.0 Library. (link to the video version). What I found interesting about this session was in the first half, the speaker talked about a project in their library that was not a technology based application. They created a "Travel neighbourhood" where resources relating to travel were put in a separate section. You could still find a specific title via the catalog but it was great for browsing too. Circulation improved. The second half dealt with the library's web site.
For your information OSNGUPL is a SirsiDynix customer with our Unicorn library management software.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Searching for Feeds
I tried the various search pages for blogs and news. Searching in all gave primarily American resources. Because they indexed individual postings a word could appear in a post but not necessarily be the main focus of the topic.
When I was using the Blogline searches, if I found one I liked, I checked out related feeds. From these, I chose others to add. Of the various search sites, I liked the Blogline searches the best.
One way that I have been locating is doing a Google search for the topic plus blogs. If the RSS symbol shows up on the Internet Explorer, I can choose to add it Feeds under Favourites or I can copy the URL into bloglines.
I have chosen three to post under Feeds in my favourites - two are about organizing and cleaning and one is Rick the Librarian who had been featured on Blogger as a blog of note. I will see which I find the easiest to use.
One of my favourite blogs that I now have added to bloglines so that I will know when it is updated is bigandlittle - a young Canadian mother who posts the most wonderful photographs of her children and her garden. I enjoy reading about her daily tasks. - Not unusual but you get interested in what is happening in the family.
When I was using the Blogline searches, if I found one I liked, I checked out related feeds. From these, I chose others to add. Of the various search sites, I liked the Blogline searches the best.
One way that I have been locating is doing a Google search for the topic plus blogs. If the RSS symbol shows up on the Internet Explorer, I can choose to add it Feeds under Favourites or I can copy the URL into bloglines.
I have chosen three to post under Feeds in my favourites - two are about organizing and cleaning and one is Rick the Librarian who had been featured on Blogger as a blog of note. I will see which I find the easiest to use.
One of my favourite blogs that I now have added to bloglines so that I will know when it is updated is bigandlittle - a young Canadian mother who posts the most wonderful photographs of her children and her garden. I enjoy reading about her daily tasks. - Not unusual but you get interested in what is happening in the family.
RSS and newsreaders
Well, I have set up 20 feeds for my Bloglines account. Setting up the Bloglines Account was not too difficult as the tutorial was helpful. To set each up, I went to some of the blogs I already had in my favourites, I copied the url to the Bloglines add dialogue box.
The advantage of having the RSS feeds going to Bloglines is there is one place to check if there are updates to Blogs. Until I set this up, I was going back regularly to some of my favourite sites to check to see if there is anything new.
So far I have added only four sites of co-workers but I am sure I will add more especially if any continue after this project is finished. The majority of my choices have been genealogy related. One that might be of interest to Reference Desk staff is ResearchBuzz -- News about search engines, databases, and other information collections and Librarians Interent Index. I have chosen also the Word a Day, Home section of the Toronto Star and the Library 2.0 project blog.
The advantage of having the RSS feeds going to Bloglines is there is one place to check if there are updates to Blogs. Until I set this up, I was going back regularly to some of my favourite sites to check to see if there is anything new.
So far I have added only four sites of co-workers but I am sure I will add more especially if any continue after this project is finished. The majority of my choices have been genealogy related. One that might be of interest to Reference Desk staff is ResearchBuzz -- News about search engines, databases, and other information collections and Librarians Interent Index. I have chosen also the Word a Day, Home section of the Toronto Star and the Library 2.0 project blog.
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