Wacky Wiki Week

Wiki week has me converted, I think I like them a lot!
My initial thoughts were "what...no control?" but how easy it would be to offer subject and/or faculty info/guides to students via a wiki. Being able to effectively lock down some infomation and enable login or account creation for editing purposes would work well. Great for developing topics or projects that would benefit from discussion, opinion, debate. Students would definitely be engaged - promote, promote, promote.
I could see uses for meetings and even staff info, in LCA we could put the whole LCA Bookmarks and procedure manual into a wiki!

RSS feeds cont....

The RSS feeds exercises took some practice to get my head around all the possibilities. I need to try and see what each method does (empirical!) and I'm still intending to see if I can add a feed to something directly from my own blog, but I'm having trouble at the moment with my blog settings, getting errors on edit pages. I may have to start from scratch.
I think RSS feeds from favourite searches in db's could be useful for students, academics, staff etc. It's another form of alerts, really, but without having to log in to your library profile - assuming the person is often on their own blog. It would be interesting to add to a library blog - but how non-specific would it have to be?

Getting on with RSS feeds

I have just created a Bloglines account and selected a few interesting feeds from their top 50 list. The next step will be to incorporate them into Blog City. I still want to find some of my own, but that means a bit of time surfing!
After some talk with Killer Kat it became a little clearer about RSS feeds, and the exact nature of Bloglines. I assumed once I set up my feeds on Bloglines I would have direct links from my Blog to them, but really you're linking to Bloglines. Blogger has the capacity to have feeds added to your Blog - I'll give that a go next and keep you posted.