[Web4lib] blog or rss reader for Tables of Contents alerts?

Nicole Engard nicole.engard at liblime.com
Fri Jun 6 07:37:31 EDT 2008


It sounded like Danielle wanted to create a newsletter with content
from RSS feeds ... if that's the case a social networking tool won't
work. I do use del.icio.us to print out bookmarks on my blog
http://www.web2learning.net/categories/web-20/link-sharing

Nicole

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:33 AM, janette treanor
<janettetreanor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Nicole,
>
> You could try a social bookmarking system like Connotea, Digg or CiteULike
>
> cheers
> janette
>
> 2008/6/6 Nicole Engard <nicole.engard at liblime.com>:
>>
>> I'm not doing this, but I wanted you to know that even though
>> Bloglines Beta doesn't have a public URL, the only Bloglines public
>> URL still works with feeds you've put in Blogline Beta.
>> http://bloglines.com/public/talia679 - that's mine and I use Beta to
>> read my feeds.
>>
>> Also - this isn't a newsletter format, but you can use
>> http://grazr.com/ to bring multiple feeds together into one reader on
>> your website.
>>
>> Lastly, http://www.feedjournal.com/ might be useful for what you want
>> ... I haven't used it before though.
>>
>> There is also always Yahoo! Pipes if you want to try and merge
>> everything into a specific format.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nicole C. Engard
>> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
>> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
>> nce at liblime.com
>> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
>>
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>> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:58 PM,  <danielle.joffe at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > I want to be able to have one space where I can dump all the Tables of
>> > Contents of journals in a particular area of interest (family therapy).  I
>> > am trying it out on a blog (blogger), and an RSS reader (bloglines)
>> > There are pros and cons with both of these and wondering if anyone has
>> > any ideas on which one is better for this purpose, or if there is another
>> > tool I could use?
>> > The great thing about the blog is that using Feedblitz, I can convert
>> > the blog into a monthly newsletter. But I have to copy and paste all the
>> > TOCs in.  It also has a public URL.
>> > The RSS reader is less work , but no newsletter (my library users are
>> > not that computer savvy - all counsellors.) - and can't add the ToCs that
>> > don't have rss feeds - so where do I put them??
>> > Just wondering if anyone is doing this and has any advice?
>> > My blog is at http://ranswlib.blogspot.com/
>> > my bloglines is
>> > http://beta.bloglines.com/b/view?mode=addsubs&siteId=9294084#view-playlistid.112579-viewDisplay.startpage-displayModel.startpage%26t%3D1212720936758
>> > but don't think you can view it without logging in - the BETA version
>> > doesn't allow you to have a public URL yet, although this is planned.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Danielle Joffe
>> > Information Manager
>> > Family Relationships Information & Library Service
>> > Relationships Australia (New South Wales) Library
>> > 149 Hawkesbury Road/PO Box 206
>> > Westmead, NSW 2145
>> > P:(02) 9806 3211   F:(02) 9806 3260 E: daniellej at ransw.org.au
>> > W: http://www.relationships.com.au/resources/libraries/ransw-library
>> >
>> >
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