Last update on our team wiki meetings

12 June

• Calendar use from Google to 30 Boxes Co. Daily view: both of them were unable to set calendar to show daily view by default. Data backup: there is no way of backing up data for 30 boxes Co. calendar, so if somebody deletes the plugin while editing the front page, the data is lost and there is no reassurance of tracing them. Window: Google calendar requires you to login in order to make entries and it is done in another window. We do not want team members to mind blogged by more u/p. Conclusion is for the time being the calendar is removed until we can find a more suitable plugin product.

19 June

• MP and RC had proof read the Wiki DSS procedure document. There were quite a few typo errors which were easily sorted out. However, the general overall bigger picture is the wiki is mainly for sharing information and act as our team’s scapbook. We came to the same idea that immediate and temporary notes are for the Stickies application to handle, whereas permanent or ongoing issues be typed up in the wiki.

• The style of “welcome page” on the wiki (aka Front page) will be kept free of notes, only hold key important links, and a general ‘how to use wiki’ be found on the “welcome page”.

• DSS wiki meeting has been concluded till major changes are needed after team members trialled the wiki.

RSS feed & News readers (week 4)

#6 Lesson:

Palinet tutorial was great at explaining RSS feed and how to use it. It is interesting to see Browsers incorporating RSS feed, adding RSS was by just clicking on RSS feed/XML orange icon on the web page, and your browser does the rest. Saves you from having to login or managing two client programs. Nice. Modzilla and Opera is by far good ones to use for this activity.  

Google reader tutorial was easy and the web appliation itself is easy to use. However, it requires login, sometimes when you surf the internet you don't feel like logging into account. The RSS feed directories provided in the lesson is American based and I guess we will have to wait for Australian based ones. 

I myself have a Gmail account and within it it has webclips which displays headlines acts exactly as a RSS and you paste the RSS feed URL in the setting section. So far my RSS feeds are ALIA, IT stuff, Dictionary word of the day, and news. 

#7 Lesson:

www.feedster.com, the link is no longer alive, as i get a full blank screen - oh well.

To subscribe to a RSS feed for a specific journal using Ebsco
1. Go to Ebsco ANZ Reference Centre
2. Click on NEW FEATURES
3. From this screen tick the ALERTS box. This will embed an RSS icon against the publications list (This part had lost me, as on NEW FEAT. page there was no check box to tick, anyways...)
4. Find a journal your would like to subscribe to (eg Australian Library Journal)
5. Follow instruction to put RSS feed into your Google Reader account

Overall I had fun.