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This presentation by Karen Blakeman, delivered at CILIP in London, explores various technologies that empower individuals to stay current with the latest information and developments in their fields. It discusses diverse tools such as RSS feeds, social media platforms, and Google alerts, offering practical tips on how to effectively utilize these resources. Learn how to customize your information streams to enhance your research capabilities and ensure you never miss out on important updates.
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Technologies for keeping up to date: a personal viewpoint ARLG – ISG Wednesday, 9th July 2014, CILIP, London Karen Blakeman , Slides available at Also on authorSTREAM and Slideshare 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk This presentation is licensed .
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RSS (RSS Owl desktop client http://www.rssowl.org/) 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
RSS – RSS Owl 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
inoreader.com 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Tweetdeck 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Twitter search alerts 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Use advanced Twitter search commands See also the free guide on Searching Twitter at 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Paper.li http://paper.li/karenblakeman 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Paper.li – email alert 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Paper.li https://paper.li/karenblakeman/1321447614 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Facebook (Permaculture Reading) 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Facebook 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Facebook 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
JournalTOCs • http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ • Librarians! How to empower your researchers to find, and be alerted to, the latest articles – YouTube • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKVQvL3NuQI 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Google’s free alerting services • Google email and RSS alerts are seriously broken • do not alert you to everything that is new • alerts sometimes ‘die’ • often bring up old material that you’ve already seen • duplicate information More reliable to bookmark searches, run them manually and apply date option Customise Google News and add topics to news.google.co.uk 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Google alerts http://www.google.com/alerts Option for Scholar alerts not included – have to be set up from within Scholar 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Google alerts 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Google Scholar alerts 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Google Scholar alerts Google alerts can go bizarrely wrong 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Add a “topic” to news.google.co.uk (must be signed in) 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Talkwalker http://www.talkwalker.com/ 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/ Curated news 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
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Scoop.it – suggestions and sources 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk
Storify 03/07/14 www.rba.co.uk