I already had a bloglines account set up but have let the feeds acquire over the past many months. As part of Thing 6, I opened it up and found I had something like 4000 feeds I had not yet read!
So - how can libraries utilize RSS? Well for starters make everything on your library website a feed that your customers can subscribe to. Example: Parents can subscribe to the updates about children's programs. That way the onus isn't on them to check the library website everyday -- instead we put the information easily in front of them - yeah! You could do the same with new books, adult programming, or any other aspect of your website you update regularly.
In my personal life? It's a great way to bring the info to me without me having to do any work. Love that!
About Me
- Jodene
- My primary focus right now is battling cancer and it stinks! I've moved on from radiation to chemo now and that should take me through the holidays. Other than that I work, sleep, read, sleep, eat, oh yeah - and sleep.
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4,000 unread feeds?!?! Hope you declared RSS feed bankruptcy and started fresh!
Yeah - I cleared 'em all out! Of course now it's been another week since I've checked. gulp. I'm afraid. very afraid.
I'm so guilty of adding tons of websites I *think* I want to keep up with. I'll keep up for a few weeks and then ignore them. But I also have that bad habit with adding things to my bookmarks on my browser.
I think the newsreader concept kind of makes a person feel obligated to read everything because when you log in you get essentially a notice of everything you haven't looked at. It's like a to-do list set up by someone else. If I go to the sites by hand myself, I don't feel as overloaded, but then what if I miss something good?
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