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What You Can Do With RSS Feeds
Mandy Ostick September 21, 2006
September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds
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?
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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
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Your Feeds on a Google Personalized Homepage
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Bringing Outside Content In: Hennepin County Library Subject Guide
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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
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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
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Journal Table of Contents:Washington & Lee Law School Library
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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
Create a Query
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Journal Table of Contents: Feed as Displayed in NewsGator
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Track Federal Legislation: LEGISinfo
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Feed for Bill C-9: As Displayed in Bloglines
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Personal Current Awareness
Looking for a used car?
Create a feed of a query at BuySell.com
Monitor with your feed reader
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Personal Current Awareness
Post your photos on Flickr
Anyone who wants to stay current can subscribe to your RSS feed