1. Gary Green Surrey County Council Library Service gary.green@surreycc.gov.uk Automating the discovery & sharing of online information resources across multiple social networks

2. Many Places = Many Conversations Many websites focus on networked communication Many people are on networks - discovering, communicating, sharing Locating/sharing information in right way, with right audience, at right time across a number of sites/accounts can be difficult

3. Automate to Overcome Problems Automating discovery & sharing of resources Online services inc. www.ifttt.com Benefits & drawbacks of automation Why your input is important The information literacy connection

4. What is IFTTT? A free web service IFTTT = If This Then That Connect over 60 online & messaging services (channels) together Automatically feed information/data between channels

5. Why is it Useful? Pull information together easily Share information easily Manage information flows Wider online presence Organise it all via a single site Effective use of time & resources

6. Which Services Connect? Social networks Bookmarking sites Image, video, audio sharing sites Blogging services Document storage & collaboration Email & messaging services Date, time, weather, stock alerts, health/lifestyle

7. How Does it Work? Connect 2 channels together 1st channel is the Trigger 2nd channel is the Response Each Trigger/Response combo is a recipe If Trigger does This action Then Response does That action Recipes are regularly checked & run

8. The Recipe Trigger - new RSS item Response - send tweet {{ }} contains data from RSS feed. You add the rest The generated tweet

9. Recipes

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11. Services Similar to IFTTT Zapier https://zapier.com/ WeWiredWeb http://www.wewiredweb.com/ Elastic.io http://www.elastic.io/ Cloudwork https://cloudwork.com/ Wappwolf http://wappwolf.com

12. Issues and Drawbacks Information overload Its easy to bombard people with too much information Uninformative or misleading headlines/article titles in item feeds Information doesnt get pulled through in the way you expect

13. Human Input Check regularly - ensure it works as expected Control how information passes between channels Stop irrelevant information being shared Share manually if more appropriate Use an information literacy perspective

14. Search, Identify, Gather Useful sources of information: Any with an ifttt channel Any with an RSS feed Better to pull in more information & sift later? Dont automatically assume every item will be relevant

15. Assess and Evaluate Use intermediary stage between discovery/sharing eg Pocket: Some functionality of RSS reader Pocket tags can be used to act as triggers Helps sift out items you dont want to share

16. Communicate and Share Define: Where you want information to be sent When you want it to be shared How you adapt/tailor information to the channel

17. Organise and Archive Standardise discovery & sharing methods Keep record/archives/logs of items shared Backup information automatically

18. Automating Discovery and Sharing Spend less time juggling different web presences Standardise your information sharing practice Get the machine to take some of the strain Keep control

19. Gary Green Surrey County Council Library Service gary.green@surreycc.gov.uk Automating the discovery & sharing of online information resources across multiple social networks.

20. Image Credits Social media beakers iconshock.com Social media heroes iconshock.com Social media trucks cutelittlefactory.com Social media hearts customicondesign.com All other screenshots www.ifttt.com