Why Bother With RSS?

If you follow this link to the "Official Feedburner Blog" there is an excellent post that links to the .pdf for a market report entitled "How feeds change the way content is distributed, valued and consumed". The whole report is very interesting if you are intrigued by the whole RSS thing.

BUT even if you aren't intrigued by RSS, the graphic you will see on the blog post page really helps make it clear why RSS is being touted by so many people as such an important tool. Look at all the "things", people and orgs that send out RSS feeds! It's important that we as library staff and information professionals have a "lightbulb moment" for RSS if we haven't already.

Remember, if you have a news site for your library, you can easily add an RSS feed to that pre-existing page. Have you done that yet?

is anyone thinking of a gaming night?

Is anyone looking into setting up a gaming night because of the workshop?

I really loved that idea.

irma

rss usage/rss startups

Has anyone tried to get an rss reader for free? And if so which one are you using?

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Social Networking Diagram

For all you visual learners out there, here is a link to a fascinating Social Networking diagram on Dave Pollard ambitiously titled blog, "How To Save The World". At the very top? "Finding Experts". Other major section headings include: Connecting, Collaborating and Learning. These themes sound familiar after class, eh? Cool stuff! Remember Web 2.0=Library 2.0!

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Libraryman!

I found this picture of Michael Porter on flickr.

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Danielle

More Tagging Sites

Amazon- Registered users can tag books they've read. For example, see "Emmy Lee" tags on the book Myth of You and Me. On November 12, I tagged the book "excellent."

Metafilter- An excellent reference site- also uses tagging.

An "Ah Ha!" Moments Awaits....

Greetings Keepers of Up! Blake Carver of (LISNews.org fame) recently wrote one of those articles that gets you all excited and riled up and frustrated and, well for me anyway, more inspired to implement what I have learned about keeping up. You could call it homework for the "Keep Up!" workshop, but I'd call it better than any of the books I've read in the last six months (though that may say something unflattering about my reading habits;). It is: "Libraries and Librarians In A Digital Future: Where Do We Fit?" and you can read the whole thing by going here. Thanks to Blake for the article and thanks to the folks that left the interesting comments continuing the conversation as well. Thoughts? Comments? Opinions? Insights?

Welcome!

Creating this blog was really easy. I wonder why more libraries and librarians don't create blogs. Wait, they DO! So how about you?

Would a blog be a useful tool for you or your library to share information and make connections?