Wednesday, November 11, 2009
RSS feeds
Exercise 1: I searched for archaeology in Access Science, and successfully bookmarked my chosen article. Scrolling down I chose and saved an image. When I went back into MyAccessScience both my search and image were saved. Knowing how to do this will be very useful.
Exercise 2: I did the same search in Proquest and set up the alert linked to my gmail account. However I was again stumped by the RSS feed process. All went well until trying to add the URL of the feed to my Bloglines account, where the message popped up saying ' no feeds were found, please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed.' Well I know it does because I just copied it! This keeps happening every time so no luck and very frustrating.
Exercise 2: I did the same search in Proquest and set up the alert linked to my gmail account. However I was again stumped by the RSS feed process. All went well until trying to add the URL of the feed to my Bloglines account, where the message popped up saying ' no feeds were found, please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed.' Well I know it does because I just copied it! This keeps happening every time so no luck and very frustrating.
Monday, November 9, 2009
library tweet
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
twitter and libraries
Firstly I looked at Upper Hutt Libraries' website, which has a link to its twitter page.They are mainly promoting upcoming library events such as the summer reading programme, public information evening, 'Tea and tales' etc. Also info about latest novels by various authors, storytime and a link to the new titles list on the website. Interesting page but a bit flat compared to Vancouver Public Library, which has a more informal, friendly twitter page. They have more interaction with library patrons as well, answering questions about the catalogue, about renewing overdue books online and even giving a patron directions to the local community centre.
Libraries using twitter can get information out to their patrons and receive feedback very quickly. To quote from Vancouver Public Library " The best thing about being a twittering library? Seeing our followers share their day-to-day experiences of/at the library."
Libraries using twitter can get information out to their patrons and receive feedback very quickly. To quote from Vancouver Public Library " The best thing about being a twittering library? Seeing our followers share their day-to-day experiences of/at the library."
searching twitter
On Twitter Search I looked up Glenfield and found several personal entries along with quite a few real estate ads for the area - also mentions from other Glenfields in the world. The most recent entry was posted 14 hours ago so if that's real time , our Glenfield people have better things to do than tweet!
For the third party search I looked up Glenfield in Chirp City. This site is nicely set out - on the left-hand side tweets from Glenfield and on the right-hand side, tweets about Glenfield, which were the same as results as for Twitter Search.
I also tried looking up library on Twitter Search and Tweep Search, which also searches the bio information of Twitter profiles. Great for finding people of similar interests.
For the third party search I looked up Glenfield in Chirp City. This site is nicely set out - on the left-hand side tweets from Glenfield and on the right-hand side, tweets about Glenfield, which were the same as results as for Twitter Search.
I also tried looking up library on Twitter Search and Tweep Search, which also searches the bio information of Twitter profiles. Great for finding people of similar interests.
Monday, November 2, 2009
twitter: an introduction
I went to Nicky Pellegrino's twitter page which reads like a diary of her thoughts for the day, is quite humorous and not at all self-serving.
The other page I looked at was cookbook via twitter which I thought was great. Very clever how they have abbreviated their recipes to fit into the 140 characters limit. I enjoyed trying to translate them back into normal language.
Grabaseat and Fitness motivation are purely for promotion of their product, no opinions.
The whole twitter concept is like glorified texting. I'm personally not interested in reading tweets of people I don't know and there is a lot of inane stuff out there. The kids aren't into it, saying it's just like your status on Facebook, which is their preferred networking site.
The other page I looked at was cookbook via twitter which I thought was great. Very clever how they have abbreviated their recipes to fit into the 140 characters limit. I enjoyed trying to translate them back into normal language.
Grabaseat and Fitness motivation are purely for promotion of their product, no opinions.
The whole twitter concept is like glorified texting. I'm personally not interested in reading tweets of people I don't know and there is a lot of inane stuff out there. The kids aren't into it, saying it's just like your status on Facebook, which is their preferred networking site.
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