What You Can Do With RSS Feeds

Mandy Ostick September 21, 2006

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What an RSS feed has done for us

Keep up with user expectations More content on our website Increased our visibility on the

internet Reduce internal email use, share

what we know Comments: another way for our

users to communicate with us Suggestions?

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Tips and Tricks

Using RSS feeds, information comes to you Read news and blogs using a web-based feed

reader (your feeds are accessible anywhere you have internet access)

Read news and blogs using Google Bring outside information onto your website Current awareness: beyond blogs and news

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Your Feeds on a Google Personalized Homepage

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Bringing Outside Content In: Hennepin County Library Subject Guide

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Current Awareness: Beyond Blogs and News

Website update feeds Journal tables of contents Tracking federal legislation Monitor the Buy & Sell, Craigslist etc. Distribute photos without email attachments

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Monitor website updates

LLRX.com: keep up with new articles RSS update alerts often offered for wikis like

Wikipedia and Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

To monitor webpages that don’t offer a feed, try a website change detection service such as WatchThatPage

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Journal Table of Contents:Washington & Lee Law School Library

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http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?format=rss&articles=yes&country=canada

See Annette Demers, “Current Awareness: The Next Generation,” (2006) 31:2 Canadian Law Library Review 67

Create a Query

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Journal Table of Contents: Feed as Displayed in NewsGator

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Track Federal Legislation: LEGISinfo

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Feed for Bill C-9: As Displayed in Bloglines

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Personal Current Awareness

Looking for a used car?

Create a feed of a query at BuySell.com

Monitor with your feed reader

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Personal Current Awareness

Post your photos on Flickr

Anyone who wants to stay current can subscribe to your RSS feed