All Blog Posts Tagged 'rss' (8)

More tools to help libraries do environment scanning

One of the keys themes of my blog is how to use free tools to get alerts of news of interest. More specifically, I have made a series of posts trying to figure out how to use tools to find and engage with library users who are online posting, tweeting etc about your library.

I first mentioned the idea in Dec 2009 , and followed it up with "… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on September 19, 2010 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Libraries and Google Calender

Google calender is a top notch online calender with many powerful features (see overview). One of the most important feature is that libraries can offer library events as public google calenders, and users who add that to their google calenders can get free SMS reminders (this works worldwide!) In this post, I will review how libraries have being using Google… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on May 15, 2010 at 4:01am — No Comments

Using RSS feeds to distribute library news - 6 ways

Okay, I'm a big fan of RSS feeds, many of the posts here involve manipulating or consuming RSS feeds in some form, and social media is essentially tied to RSS. "Aggregating

sources for academic research in a web 2.0 world" is probably my

most popular post on how to consume RSS feeds from various sources. "…

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Added by Aaron Tay on May 15, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Viewing research alerts - full text within Google reader

Summary

Google reader has introduced two interesting features, "share" which allows uers to share interesting feed items to users who follow you on Google reader (or to the shared item page) and the newer… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on November 4, 2009 at 6:49am — No Comments

Twitter experiment

I recently tried an experiment with Twitter. I thought I'd get together an RSS feed of Tweets that mention the words 'love' and 'library' and Retweet them. I just wanted to see all the positive comments that people make about libraries and spread the word to my Twitter world (all 37 of my followers, over 1/2 of which are spammers... I don't mind. It makes me look more popular than I really am.) So I ran a Twitter search, found the RSS feed for it, put it into '… Continue

Added by Gary Green on October 2, 2009 at 4:16am — No Comments

Rss feeds, Library databases and yahoopipes

This post will discuss how to use RSS feeds from library databases. It's surprisingly tricky to do it compared to subscribing to normal RSS feeds from most blogs. This is due to the fact libraries generally provide access via a proxy - ezproxy to provide remote access to databases off campus.

As most readers of this blog are probably reading this off a RSS feed, I won't explain what a RSS feed is. If you have no idea what it is, please…

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Added by Aaron Tay on July 30, 2009 at 4:38pm — No Comments

Aggregating sources for academic research in a web 2.0 world

Introduction

In this rather long post, I will talk about the different sources one could add to stay on top of one's research area. These include RSS feeds from traditional databases (citation alerts, table of contents of favourite journals), library opac feeds of searches and new additions, book vendor sites (e.g Amazon) book sharing sites (e.g LibraryThing), social bookmarking sites both generic…

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Added by Aaron Tay on July 24, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Check out Swedish bibl feed

Friend and collegue Ake Nygren created a great community if your interested in what's up on the Swedish library scene using the Ning tool. The community is called bibl feed and collects rss-feeds from the Swedish biblioblogosphere.
And yes, there is a group for english speaking librarians, too.

Welcome to check it out!

Added by Peter Alsbjer on January 30, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments