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BLOG JA: Exploring Jane Austen blogs and how to make the most of them with RSS

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Jane Austen Blogs and how to make the most of them with RSS

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BLOG JA:

Exploring Jane Austen blogs and how to make the most of them

with RSS

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What are blogs?

• ‘Weblogs’ or ‘blogs’ are publicly available web pages, with personal views and links expressing news, opinions and observations, usually on a specific topic or theme.

http://www.laredogroup.com/glossresourc.asp

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What are blogs?

• Updates are published regularly and appear in the form of “posts”.

• Each post is an individual news story, similar to an article in a journal

• Older posts are archived in reverse chronological order, and appear as “archives” in a side panel on the blog

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MANY topics …

• Literature• Health • Sport• News• Professional – for many

professions• If you have an interest, there is

probably a blog….

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New Post

New Post

Archives

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Other typical features of blogs

• Blurb about the author

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Other typical features of blogs

• Blogroll or ‘links’– to other blogs

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Banner

Access to other

resources

Feeds

Search

Other typical features of blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Some great related blogs

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Some great related Blogs

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Some great related Blogs

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Some great related blogs

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Some great J.A blogs

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Texts of Jane’s novels, juvenilia, works of contemporaries….

•Biography•Georgian era•Regency era•Victorian era•Art & Architecture•Much, much more…

Links to icons, screen captures from

movies, fan sites

Professional and amateur podcasts of all the novels,

and sources about the novels.

• English culture• Crime• Cookery • Fashion• Furnishings • Much, much more …

Resources for high school and

undergraduate college students

Jane’s novels as they are presented on websites and

other blogs

A wealth of literary resources about JA

and her contemporaries

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Why I have not included certain sites….

• Pemberley.com and other mega-sites

• JASA• Jane Austen Centre• No feeds …..

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To find blogs …

• Use a Blog Search• http://blogsearch.google.com/• MOSTLY use blogs to find other blogs

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• Now lets introduce

•RSS

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• The old way: visit many blogs or websitesevery day

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• The new way: feed all the new posts to your RSS reader

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RSS is like reading journals…

• Lots of them!

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What is RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication

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From “Push” to “Pull”

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My Google Reader

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Google Reader

• http://www.google.com/reader

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Google Reader

• Sign in with free account

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RSS Feed: Subscribing

• 1. Find a blog.2. Copy the URL or link.

• 3. Go to Google Reader.• 4. Click on Add Subscription.• 5. Paste in the link. • 6. Organize the new feed into

your folders or subject structure.

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Step 1 (Find a blog)

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Step 2 (Copy RSS Link)

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Step 3 (Go to Reader)

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Step 4 (Add Feed)

• Click on Add subscription

• This expands to give you space to paste the URL.

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Step 5 (Paste Link)

• Paste the URL in the box, then click ADD.

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Step 7 (Sort Feed)

Manage subscriptions allow you to group feeds

under folders.

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Step 6 (Sort Feed)

• Choose a topic folder or create a new folder.

• TIP: When you view a folder, you see the newest items for the topic all integrated together.

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Subscribing

• Some pages offer buttons you can just click on to add a feed.

• This allows you to skip steps 3-6!

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RSS Feed: Subscribing

• 1. Find a feed.• 2. Find RSS button, and click• 3. Select your RSS Reader.• 4. Organize the new feed into

your folders or subject structure.

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Step 1 (Find Webpage)

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Step 2 (RSS button)

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Step 3 (Select your RSS Reader)

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Step 4 (Organise feed into subject structure)

• Choose a topic folder or create a new folder.

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Credits:

Kay Schneider with slides from

Britt Watwood, VCU

“Using RSS Personally and Professionally”Patricia F. Anderson, U. Mich

“RSS Demystified”Perter Bromberg, SJRLC

Ashwini, Social Media Evangelist