Week 4 - RSS Feeds with Google Reader and Twitter

Great YouTube clip on RSS feeds! I really like the emphasis on a "new and fast" method of managing the amount of information that is accessed on a regular basis. Its an ideal set up of having your main/daily information websites send out rather than individuals having to go in search of. My Google Reader is set up and active and just adding in my new RSS feeds, having some difficulty linking in my RSS feeds from the ACL websites for my favourite authors. Says they were added successfully but not on my "subscription list". Will post the solution once I have sorted it out!

Resolved! I was linking the RSS feeds but they were getting stored on my laptop under the tab "feeds" within my Favourites instead of my Google Reader. I also found a feature on my laptop that tells me if there are any RSS feeds available on the webpage I am viewing.

Can I stop at adding just ten?

RSS feeds will be very beneficial in keeping up-to-date on librarianship news and events. As a student I am always wanting to be informed on the latest. For my work responsibilities, I am linking in some reader advisory websites for finding new titles for my Homebound patrons.

I have joined Twitter, I really have mixed feelings about this one as I don't really want to know all the small details that are happening in other peoples' lives between their blog postings and emails as explained in the YouTube clip. With respect to implementing this in a community library -- perhaps for quick reminders of events or a change in services. Would staff actually be able to manage the tweets from all the tweetple that would be their followers? How many patrons would need to be on Twitter to warrant adding this as a communication tool?

Today on my lunch break I was reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine (February 2010) and it had an interesting article entitled "America's Tweethearts" that stated "Google has signed a deal to prominently add Tweets to its search engine results". Its infiltrating!