Paul Pival

all of the tools they will show today is freely available and usable by everyone

can use Javascript to route around not having access to your servers; just have to be able to sneak a snippet of code into your HTML pages

collected URLs on http://paulandmeredith.pbwiki.com/tools

started out with a dynamically generated teaser page of “library info”
– new books section is from an external source

what is wrong with traditional subject pages?
– not often updated
– not easy to add content to if you don’t know HTML
– no academic field is static, so perhaps a static web page isn’t the best tool for a subject guide

defined RSS and Javascript as terms

what sort of content might you want on a subject page?
– subject headings and other subject guidance
– useful databases
– useful journals
– useful books
– new books in that subject area
– new articles in that subject area
– useful web sites
– instructional materials
– subject-related news

gave some database examples you could use
sites that list journal feeds
social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us (San Mateo Library – DDC), blinklist, and furl
podcasts, screencasts, vidcasts

Meredith Farkas

syndicating RSS feeds onto a web page
showed how to use Feed2JS to display a feed on any web page
mentioned Grazr

can output your list of feeds into an OPML file

showed a page that is built dynamically using feeds from various places, noted where each one comes from

Paul showed RSS feeds in Blackboard

back to Meredith

mixing multiple feeds into one using KickRSS, RSS mix, feed blendr

noted you can also get RSS via email using sites like rmail (can put their widget on your site so they can subscribe)

creating feeds for sites that don’t have them – feed43, RSSxl, feedyes

calendars with RSS feeds – RSSCalendar, Calendar Hub

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