Introduction In this long rambling post (too bad the name Rambling librarian is taken) , I write about filtering RSS feeds (in particular table of contents from online journals), using 3 services , SuxOr, FeedZero and FeedScrub. I ramble on about social filtering versus Bayesian filters, Spam filtering versus filtering of RSS feeds , some very brief initial thoughts etc.
In this blog post, I describe 3 different ways to zoom in and out of presentations to increase visibility, and to create a bit of action.
It has being a crazy week, I was stressing out having to give my first ever presentation at the Libraries of the future seminar (with the new presentation tool Prezi !).
Reference desk duty is probably the most interesting part of my day, as I get to interact with users.
How do you share links, resources with your library patrons? In the past, the default option would certainly be through email. There is nothing wrong with sharing links through emails, though it seems to me a more structured and organized way would be better.
A couple of months back , I wrote a post entitled Creating custom search boxes for library use. This is one of my top 10 most popular blog posts and also one of the posts which I'm most proud of because it is one of my few posts that I feel is pretty original.
Summary Google reader has introduced two interesting features, "share" which allows uers to share interesting feed items to users who follow you on Google reader (or to the shared item page) and the newer "Send to" feature which allows you to send interesting feed items to be posted on various services including delicious, facebook and citeulike.
Web 2.0 services like Slideshare, Youtube are now an accepted part of the web, and Libraries are using them as a matter of course to embed their presentations onto webpages.
Haven't had much time to blog this weekend, as I was busy running a pilot survey for my Phd (more about that in the future), but I will just share 2 wild/random ideas I have about email.
Technical services in libraries which encompasses back-room work like acquisitions, document delivery and cataloging are often deemed as the less 'sexy' part of librarianship.
Introduction Today's libraries interact with users and obtain feedback in a dizzying number of ways from email to sms, instant messaging, twitter, skype, Facebook and comments on blogs. But most of these methods are private (e.g other users cannot see an email sent to your library) or in the case of comments on blogs/wall posts on Facebook the feedback obtained is unstructured. Why allow users to see feedback from others?