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):
Lingo:
Popular Programs/Services:
- Creating your own feeds
- Feed Optimization
- Re-purposing feeds
- Chicklets
- Site Analytics
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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