Using Netvibes and Yahoo! Pipes in practice Jason Curtis Site Librarian Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries

Outline Overview Examples of Netvibes pages Using Netvibes in practice Creating an alerting service Using Yahoo! Pipes Using Feedburner Questions

Overview : Netvibes Netvibes can be used to create a public ‘start page’ with many tabs Can enable users to view new journal articles, books, new evidence, across a wide range of subjects No need for users to login (unless they want Athens protected full-text) Uses RSS to pull in information Will work on Internet Explorer 6

Overview : alerting Use Yahoo! Pipes to combine feeds from different sources Combined feed passed through Feedburner Feedburner manages subscriptions Users receive up to one a day if new content available Yahoo! Pipes works best in IE7 or Firefox

Example of output

Examples Many library services are now using Netvibes KnowledgeNet (Wolverhampton Hospitals)KnowledgeNet Sheffield University Dublin City Public Libraries Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Using our site A quick demonstration of what users see when using our site

Creating a Netvibes site Login using the details provided (or your own account if you prefer) Feel free to follow the steps and there will also practice time later

Creating a Netvibes site Setting up a public page Changing themes and colours Creating a new tab Adding a feed Adding a text box Adding a link Exporting and importing an OPML file Sharing widgets Moving and editing boxes Making sure an RSS feed links to full-text

Sources of RSS Feeds CASH (Current Awareness Service for Health) NHS Evidence (Specialist Collections and other feeds from the RSS directory) National electronic Library for Medicine (NeLM) BMJ and AMA Journals (full-text for NHS Athens) BioMed Central journals (free full-text) MedWorm (pre-configured and search query results)

Sources of RSS Feeds cont. PubMed searches Behind the Headlines EBSCOHost databases (CINAHL full-text and Health Business elite) Your own feeds

Feeds can be created from: Library blogs Catalogues (using built-in features or Feed43) Social bookmarking tools (e.g. Diigo, Connotea) Google Reader public feeds Pages without an RSS feed (using Feed43)

Practice Links to sources are available on the Team Knowledge Update wiki

Setting up alerts Netvibes cannot offer alerts Yahoo! Pipes is used to combine feeds on a topic Feedburner is then used to offer and manage subscriptions Users will receive an each day something new appears on their chosen subject

Using Yahoo! Pipes Yahoo! account required Pipes can combine RSS feeds to create a single RSS feed For best results, use IE7 or Firefox Can publish pipes, so others can modify them for their own use

Using Yahoo! Pipes Login using the details provided (or your own account if you prefer) Feel free to follow the steps and there will also practice time later

Using Feedburner Google account required Offers subscription management for RSS feeds Demonstration

Feedburner in practice Feedburner provides a link for subscriptions (or code to create a signup box) You or user enter their address and validation code User then clicks the link sent to them User can unsubscribe at any time Alerts deactivate if 5 s bounce back You can see who has subscribed

Activation

Unsubscribing