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RSSProducerSummer

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RSS - Producer (Summer)

 

Lecture/Coffee Talk:

 

  Lecture(s)/Demo(s):

  • RSS (Producer ) Overview (12:14) | Homework Review (Summer)(4:01)
  • Via iTunes (each 3-6min long)
    • Maximize feeds w/FeedBurner
    • Chicklets (Feedburner)
    • Chicklets (AddThis)
    • Showing feed content via your blogger blog
    • Using Feed2JS to add feed content to your blog/wiki/website
    • Using FeedDigest to repurpose multiple feeds for your blog/wiki/website
    • Using a Google Analytics account with your blog

 

  Steve Notes:

  • From passive user to producer/developer/manager...
  • Blogs and Content Management Systems (CMSs) create feeds...so can you
    • If you can code xhtml you can code a feed
  • Repurposing feeds is fun, helpful and good time mgmt
  • Knowing if someone is subscribed to your feed/using your blog is good for stats

 

  Definition(s):

  • n/a

 

  Lingo:

  •  n/a

 

  Popular Programs/Services: 

 

  Library Example(s):

 

  Resources/Other:

 


Homework/To Do:

 

Reading: 

  • Farkas. Librarians as RSS publishers, pgs. 54-60 and Librarians as RSS Middlemen, pgs. 60-63
  • Pete Bromberg's RSS Demystified Presentation on SlideShare (slides 45-72)

Watching:

Projects

  • Blog Posts (Just a paragraph or two)
    • RSS and Information Overload: Does the use of RSS/RSS aggregators mitigate or aggravate the problem of Information Overload in today's society?
  • Burn your feed
    • Use FeedBurner to optimize your feed (make sure to set blogger redirect. Dashboard>>Settings>>Site Feed)
    • Use FeedBurner's Chicklet Chooser to add a simple rss chicklet to your blog (put it high up so I can see it easily)
  • Using/Repurposing feeds
    • Add your twitter feed as a page element to your blog's sidebar
    • Using FeedDigest (Feed Informer) create a feed from multiple feeds and add it to your wiki page (Insert Plugin>>PBwiki Magic>>HTML)
  • Google Analytics
    • Using your existing Google account (xxscils598...) log in to Google Analytics
    • Create an account to "track" the use of your blog
    • Go to Blogger and add the tracking code to your blog as a page element
    • Wait 24hrs and check out your stats
    • We'll check in on your account now and then thru the semester

 

Suggestions:

(Your area to make any suggestions as to how this is taught/what is taught)

 

(example) sg - suggestion goes here

 

ts-  came across this today and thought it was cool.  14 "other" uses for RSS.  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-other-ways-to-use-rss-feeds/

 

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