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
