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What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

What You Can Do With RSS Feeds. Mandy Ostick September 21, 2006. What an RSS feed has done for us. Keep up with user expectations More content on our website Increased our visibility on the internet Reduce internal email use, share what we know

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What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

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  1. What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Mandy Ostick September 21, 2006

  2. What an RSS feed has done for us • Keep up with user expectations • More content on our website • Increased our visibility on the internet • Reduce internal email use, share what we know • Comments: another way for our users to communicate with us • Suggestions? What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  3. Tips and Tricks Using RSS feeds, information comes to you • Read news and blogs using a web-based feed reader (your feeds are accessible anywhere you have internet access) • Read news and blogs using Google • Bring outside information onto your website • Current awareness: beyond blogs and news What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  4. Your Feeds on a Google Personalized Homepage What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  5. Bringing Outside Content In: Hennepin County Library Subject Guide What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  6. Current Awareness: Beyond Blogs and News • Website update feeds • Journal tables of contents • Tracking federal legislation • Monitor the Buy & Sell, Craigslist etc. • Distribute photos without email attachments What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  7. Monitor website updates • LLRX.com: keep up with new articles • RSS update alerts often offered for wikis like Wikipedia and Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki • To monitor webpages that don’t offer a feed, try a website change detection service such as WatchThatPage What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  8. Journal Table of Contents:Washington & Lee Law School Library What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  9. Create a Query http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?format=rss&articles=yes&country=canada See Annette Demers, “Current Awareness: The Next Generation,” (2006) 31:2 Canadian Law Library Review 67 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  10. Journal Table of Contents: Feed as Displayed in NewsGator What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  11. Track Federal Legislation: LEGISinfo What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  12. Feed for Bill C-9: As Displayed in Bloglines What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  13. Personal Current Awareness Looking for a used car? • Create a feed of a query at BuySell.com • Monitor with your feed reader What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

  14. Personal Current Awareness • Post your photos on Flickr • Anyone who wants to stay current can subscribe to your RSS feed What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

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