Having completed the exercies for Thing 2 here are my thoughts on how I could use these in practice:-
RSS
Our organisation uses MOSS and this has the ability to save
RSS onto your personal home page. I use this to keep up to date with news. A
disadvantage I have found is that if you set up too many RSS feeds there are
too many updates to keep a track of so it is better to be selective.
I have found RSS to be useful in keeping up to date with
news from Professional Organisations so I would encourage staff to set up a RSS
feed from their own professional organisation.
One area I would like to use these for is to produce a brief
daily current awareness bulletin of health news.
Twitter
Like many participants our organisation blocks Twitter.
However, as I have never sent a Tweet I decided to set up account and try it
out.
I can see this being useful for sharing ideas, asking and
answering questions. I think it could also be useful for students on courses to
discuss things.
I can therefore see my role as making staff aware of how to
use Twitter for networking.
Alerts
As many of our staff are remote users then Journal alerts
are a good way for them to see the latest articles in a specific journal or
topic.
I am looking to use journal alerts to help produce a
themed current awareness bulletin. Again I see my role as encouraging staff to
set up their own alerts
Hi Vanessa,
ReplyDeleteI share your views on RSS feeds and journal alerts and how they can make producing a current awareness bulletin much easier. We produce a nursing CA every month and it is time-consuming. I can see how much better it would be to use the feeds and the journal alerts, which in turn should free up some time to expand in to other areas.
Google Reader has been a revelation to me and it makes it so much easier to keep up to date.
I'm glad you are enjoying the course.