Information self-service: RSS + feedly

mirjam schaap, September 2013 Course Professional use of internet and social media for university faculty staff University of Fort Hare and University of Limpopo, South Africa

Programme Tuesday

9.00 Searching video and presentations 9.30 Information self-service: using RSS to stay up to date (Feedly) 10.30 Coffee/tea 10.45 Information self-service: Feedly continued 12.00 Demonstration google drive – google plus 12.30 LUNCH 13.10 Demonstration Mendeley 13.30 Linked In: unleash the power professional networking 15.00 Coffee/tea 15.15 Twitter: enhance your online reputation 16.00 Closing

Do NOT go to the news

Website

Journal website

YOU Blog Search new delicious bookmarks

Let news come TO YOU

Website

Journal website

YOU Blog Search new delicious bookmarks

2 things to make your own self-service

1. Your own self-service reader

2. Connect reader to website- updates (subscribe to RSS)

Go to www.feedly.com

(1)get started (2) sign in to google (3) accept the app rights

You will get this, to start first go to the website you want to subscribe to: (1)Open new tab, (2)go to website you want to subscribe to, (3) find rss button

Paste the url in the Click Click the feed you want to subscribe to Click Select or create a new category, click

Go to website you want to subscribe to (new tab)

www.eldis.org go to “topics”, than to “subscribe” (footer)

Click on a feed you want to subscribe to Copy the url (from browser address bar)

Go back to the feedly website

Set preferences Organize feeds

DO: subscribe to sites you want

Journal websites Publishers websites News websites Organisations websites Blogs

advanced: create alerts using Mention or Talkwalker

More on feedly

http://blog.feedly.com/getting-started/ http://feedly.uservoice.com/

Rss feeds delcious, youtube, slideshare

https://delicious.com/developers/rssurls

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/[username]

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/sncoyini

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/tag/[tag]

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/tag/edutech

YouTube: social media https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=social%20media&orderby=relevance

SlideShare: user “texttochange”

http://www.slideshare.net/rss/user/texttochange

DASHBOARDS

• Hootsuite (twitter – linkedin – facebook)

• Netvibes (rss – news - widgets)

PERSONAL DIGITAL MAGAZINES

• Flipboard (for smartphone - tablet)

Enjoy sharing!

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