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

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

3. 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

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

5. Example of email output

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

7. Using our site A quick demonstration of what users see when using our site www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries

8. 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 www.netvibes.com

9. 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

10. 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)

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

12. 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)

13. Practice Links to sources are available on the Team Knowledge Update wiki http://teamknowledgeupdate.pbworks.com

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

15. 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

16. 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 http://pipes.yahoo.com

17. Using Feedburner Google account required Offers email subscription management for RSS feeds Demonstration http://feedburner.google.com

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

19. Activation email

20. Unsubscribing