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Monday 25 January 2010

iGoogle

Last week, as part of Week 1 of 23 things I created an iGoogle page featuring news updates, weather and a big ol' picture of a Blackberry.

I'm not convinced at how useful it is to me but I guess that it is quicker than using bookmarks as you can see the content without going into the site.

Maybe Library staff could encourage patrons to add news updates form Libraries to their iGoogle pages e.g. to notify them of changes in opening hours etc.



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  1. Penny Schenk1 February 2010 at 11:38

    Hi Ed, are you a Blackberry user? I had a pager-style one back in the dark ages, and it never ceased to amaze me that it was quite easy to switch to typing with my thumbs...

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  2. Ed Smithson2 February 2010 at 12:24

    Hi Penny, certainly am! Yes they're not for people with sausage-fingers. Wouldn't go back to a normal phone now...

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  3. Joanna3 February 2010 at 20:31

    Hi Ed,
    That's a good idea about encouraging patrons to sign up to library news feeds. I wonder if there is some central listing of Oxford libraries' feeds somewhere?
    I'm very impressed with all your links on the left!
    Joanna

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  4. Ed Smithson4 February 2010 at 10:58

    Hi Joanna,
    Those are RSS feeds, I added ad "widget" or a "gadget" to make them appear on here. Probably better to have them in Google Reader though, but a Library Thing feed could be useful on a Library Blog I reckon. Ed

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