SirsiDynix Institute is offering a free webinar called “Free your content! RSS for Libraries“, on August 7, 2007 at 11:00 AM Eastern time featuring Paul Pival —Distance Education Librarian, University of Calgary and Meredith Farkas —Distance Learning Librarian, Norwich University.
Paul and Meredith will describe what RSS is and how to use it in a variety of ways in libraries: to make it easier for users to find out about your collections and programs, to push subject-related content to patrons, and to publish dynamic content on a variety of pages. There are many tools that make generating RSS feeds, subscribing to RSS feeds, displaying RSS feeds and mixing RSS feeds an incredibly simply proposition for those with little technical knowledge. In addition, they will show you how to use RSS to easily keep up with the topics you are interested in without having to visit multiple websites each day.
Since this is one of my department workplans for this year I’ll try to watch it but if not, I can always catch the podcast later. RSS is one of the 2.0 things I think BCPL should implement for our customers this year.
I really like what you are talking about here. I began researching convergence in the early 1990’s and then went back to school in 2001 to get a master’s degree in Telecommunications with a production emphasis.
In my job for a large national organization I produce films and develop web content. I am defending my dissertation on edutainment and convergence and I developed a site after getting involved in the podcasting movement. I love your work and I plan on adding you to my site. I have not figured out how to add subscribe with bloglines buttons yet. I am a producer and director by trade but I know what looks good and visual placement. Check out my work in my archives in May and June and April. You will see my live research. I plan on bringing the video and audio podcasts on later. I think the UK, Canada, Australia and other countries are well ahead of the US distance learning. Hopefully, we can get the US to think beyond the elite and really start educating folks.
Oh I forgot my address is:
http://edutainmenttoday.wordpress.com
I loved the BCPL article since I live and work in the Baltimore DC area and they are doing great work.