Before doing the Week 3 challenge, I had my doubts about the usefulness of RSS feeds, but I have since learnt that RSS feeds are very convenient. Instead of going to lots of individual sites, that may not even have new updates, you can go to one site that lets you know if any, and how many, new updates have occurred since you last looked.
I used Google Reader (www.google.com/reader). And as I already have a gmail account, I apparently automatically get a reader account as well. I am a follower of Ruth's blog and it was automatically put in as my first RSS feed. Go Ruth!! Setting up the rest of my 5 feeds was easy. The hard part was deciding which sites to use. In the end I used: www.apple.com ; www.heraldsun.com.au ; www.thelibrarythingblog.com ; and www.weeklytimesnow.com.au.
I think that, in a library setting, RSS feeds could be used to let subscribers know of new books (maybe even by their favourite authors) that have arrived and are in the system; let them know of events, like author visits/workshops, etc. coming up; and you could possibly even personalise the feeds even further and let them know if books they have on hold are in or maybe even if they have overdue books and/or fines to pay.
Yaaay!!!! I've finished all 3 challenges.
Now all I have to do is to remember to submit that I've done it.
Hmmm, maybe I'll do that now too.
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