1. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 1 News Feeds & Social Bookmarking Practical skills for managing information overload Ian Watson Knowledge & Information Manager Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services

2. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 2 RSS Really Simple Syndication Also known as: News feeds feeds XML feeds syndicated content web feeds Purpose: Saves you visiting websites frequently to check for new content Instead the content is sent to you News stories Latest posting to a blog Audio Video A short video: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

3. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 3 Keeping up to date The Old Way Blogs http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/ Web sites http://www.guardian.co.uk/society Millions of possible sites to check for anything new Very time consuming

4. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 4 Keeping up to date The New Way Look for the symbol on your favourite web sites Updated content delivered to your computer

5. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 5 Two Steps 1. Choose a reader www.google.com/reader www.bloglines.com www.newsgator.com my.yahoo.com Or use your browser: Internet Explorer Firefox 2. Set up a connection between your reader and the web site (known as subscribing)‏..... just look for the icon....

6. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 6 Click on the icon Click 'Subscribe' Example, using Internet Explorer 7

7. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 7 Whenever there is anything new on these sites, you can see at glance in your browser

8. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 8 You can organise your feeds into folders

9. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 9 Try finding and setting up feeds from these sites News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/rss/3223484.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/society http://www.out-law.com/page-5987 http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/news.htm http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/obituaries/ Blogs http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/ http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com Other http://www.iriss.org.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/feeds/ http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.iriss.org.uk/grazr/

10. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 10 Make your own feed on you own topic http://news.google.co.uk/advanced_news_search

11. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 11 Google Feed Reader Sign up for a Google account: www.google.com/readerwww.google.com/reader Google will offer some bundles of feeds

12. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 12 Bookmarking The Old Way Web 2.0

13. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 13 Problems Hierarchical folders are –hard to organise –not easy to search –time consuming to keep-up-date Tied to one computer (home / office)‏ Not shareable

14. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 14 The New Way Social Bookmarking A method for remembering sites you have visited and sharing them with others. Tap into other people’s favourites. Similar to following up references at the end of an article: if you rate the article/author you are likely to find his/her sources useful. A short video http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-englishhttp://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

15. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 15 Three things 1.Getting Started –Register with http://del.icio.ushttp://del.icio.us –alternatives: Connotea, Simpy, Furl, Stumbleupon 2.Organising using ‘tags’ (keywords)‏ –Install browser buttons 3.Social dimension –Bookmarks are public. Others can see yours and vice versa: Thus networks are created

16. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 16 Add the del.icio.us buttons to Internet Explorer http://del.icio.us/help/ie/extension http://del.icio.us/help/ie/extension

17. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 17 After installing buttons, a 'tag' icon appears on the toolbar. Click the icon when you want to bookmark the current page. A dialogue box will appear...

18. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 18 Type in some tags (keywords) to describe this site Tags are suggested You don't have to let others see what you are bookmarking.

19. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 19 Building a network Click the delicious button Your bookmarks on delicious appear You can search either your own bookmarks or everyone's.

20. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 20 This page bookmarked by 1082 other people. Click the link to see who is bookmarking it

21. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 21 Read what others said about this page See what other sites have been bookmarked by these users

22. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 22 If you like what this person is bookmarking, you can add him to your network And you can see who is in his network

23. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 23 And I will appear as one of his 'fans' – you can choose to add 'fans' to your network or not Joevans is now in my network

24. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 24 When you tag a page, you can mark it for the attention of people in your network

25. PEPE 23 January 2008 © Institute for research and Innovation in Social Services. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland 25 When someone in my network tags something for me I can see it by clicking 'Links for you' And I can set up an RSS feed to save me visiting del.icio.us to check for new suggestions!