1. What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Mandy Ostick September 21, 2006

2. What You Can Do With RSS Feeds 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?

3. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds 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

4. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Your Feeds on a Google Personalized Homepage

5. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Bringing Outside Content In: Hennepin County Library Subject Guide Hennepin County Library Subject Guide

6. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds 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

7. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Monitor website updates LLRX.com: keep up with new articles LLRX.com RSS update alerts often offered for wikis like Wikipedia and Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki WikipediaLibrary Success: A Best Practices Wiki To monitor webpages that don’t offer a feed, try a website change detection service such as WatchThatPage WatchThatPage

8. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Journal Table of Contents: Washington & Lee Law School Library Washington & Lee Law School Library

9. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds http://law.wlu.edu/library/CLJC/index.asp?format=rss&a rticles=yes&country=canada See Annette Demers, “Current Awareness: The Next Generation,” (2006) 31:2 Canadian Law Library Review 67 Create a Query

10. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Journal Table of Contents: Feed as Displayed in NewsGator

11. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Track Federal Legislation: LEGISinfo LEGISinfo

12. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Feed for Bill C-9: As Displayed in Bloglines

13. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Personal Current Awareness Looking for a used car? Create a feed of a query at BuySell.comBuySell.com Monitor with your feed reader

14. September 21, 2006 What You Can Do With RSS Feeds Personal Current Awareness Post your photos on Flickr Flickr Anyone who wants to stay current can subscribe to your RSS feed