PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 1 News Feeds & Social Bookmarking Practical skills for managing information overload Ian Watson Knowledge & Information Manager Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 2 RSS Really Simple Syndication Also known as: News feeds feeds XML feeds syndicated content web feeds Purpose: Saves you visiting websites frequently to check for new content Instead the content is sent to you News stories Latest posting to a blog Audio Video A short video:

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 3 Keeping up to date The Old Way Blogs Web sites Millions of possible sites to check for anything new Very time consuming

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 4 Keeping up to date The New Way Look for the symbol on your favourite web sites Updated content delivered to your computer

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 5 Two Steps 1. Choose a reader my.yahoo.com Or use your browser: Internet Explorer Firefox 2. Set up a connection between your reader and the web site (known as subscribing)‏..... just look for the icon....

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 6 Click on the icon Click 'Subscribe' Example, using Internet Explorer 7

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 7 Whenever there is anything new on these sites, you can see at glance in your browser

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 8 You can organise your feeds into folders

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. 9 Try finding and setting up feeds from these sites News Blogs Other

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Make your own feed on you own topic

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Google Feed Reader Sign up for a Google account: Google will offer some bundles of feeds

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Bookmarking The Old Way Web 2.0

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Problems Hierarchical folders are –hard to organise –not easy to search –time consuming to keep-up-date Tied to one computer (home / office)‏ Not shareable

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License The New Way Social Bookmarking A method for remembering sites you have visited and sharing them with others. Tap into other people’s favourites. Similar to following up references at the end of an article: if you rate the article/author you are likely to find his/her sources useful. A short video

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Three things 1.Getting Started –Register with –alternatives: Connotea, Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon 2.Organising using ‘tags’ (keywords)‏ –Install browser buttons 3.Social dimension –Bookmarks are public. Others can see yours and vice versa: Thus networks are created

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Add the del.icio.us buttons to Internet Explorer

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License After installing buttons, a 'tag' icon appears on the toolbar. Click the icon when you want to bookmark the current page. A dialogue box will appear...

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Type in some tags (keywords) to describe this site Tags are suggested You don't have to let others see what you are bookmarking.

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Building a network Click the delicious button Your bookmarks on delicious appear You can search either your own bookmarks or everyone's.

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License This page bookmarked by 1082 other people. Click the link to see who is bookmarking it

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License Read what others said about this page See what other sites have been bookmarked by these users

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License If you like what this person is bookmarking, you can add him to your network And you can see who is in his network

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License And I will appear as one of his 'fans' – you can choose to add 'fans' to your network or not Joevans is now in my network

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License When you tag a page, you can mark it for the attention of people in your network

PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License When someone in my network tags something for me I can see it by clicking 'Links for you' And I can set up an RSS feed to save me visiting del.icio.us to check for new suggestions!