03/07/14www.rba.co.uk Technologies for keeping up to date: a personal viewpoint ARLG – ISG Wednesday, 9 th July 2014, CILIP, London Karen Blakeman, Slides available at Also on authorSTREAM and Slideshare This presentation is licensed.
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RSS (RSS Owl desktop client 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
RSS – RSS Owl 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
inoreader.com 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Tweetdeck 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Twitter search alerts 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Use advanced Twitter search commands 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk See also the free guide on Searching Twitter at
Paper.li 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Paper.li – alert 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Paper.li 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Facebook (Permaculture Reading) 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Facebook 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Facebook 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
JournalTOCs Librarians! How to empower your researchers to find, and be alerted to, the latest articles – YouTube – 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Google’s free alerting services Google and RSS alerts are seriously broken –do not alert you to everything that is new –alerts sometimes ‘die’ –often bring up old material that you’ve already seen –duplicate information More reliable to bookmark searches, run them manually and apply date option Customise Google News and add topics to news.google.co.uk 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Google alerts Option for Scholar alerts not included – have to be set up from within Scholar 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Google alerts 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Google Scholar alerts 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Google Scholar alerts 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk Google alerts can go bizarrely wrong
Add a “topic” to news.google.co.uk (must be signed in) 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Talkwalker 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Scoop.it 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk Curated news
Scoop.it 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Scoop.it – suggestions and sources 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk
Storify 03/07/14www.rba.co.uk