I recently presented a keynote speech entitled:
Keeping Your Head Above Water in a Sea of Information
Here’s the description: Drowning in a sea of information? Having difficulty keeping up with wave after wave of tools and resources? In this session, Tammy will provide a 6-step strategy that will help you to stay afloat.
For my Tip of the Week for the next 6 weeks, I will present my 6-step plan. Here’s Step 4:
Once you’ve joined some communities, blogs, and podcasts, you can consolidate and organize them using one of these tools:
Idea 1 - RSS Feeds:
1. Watch this video: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
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2.Set up a Google Reader account.
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3.Add subcriptions!
Note - Google Reader is just one of many RSS Feed services. Here are some others:
- Aggreg8
- BottomFeeder
- FeedDemon
- Pluck
Idea 2 - iGoogle:
What is iGoogle? http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=20324
1. Watch these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbf0dlESX8E&feature=related
http://www.revver.com/video/422324/introduction-to-igoogle/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USKnJNbM9-s&feature=related
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2.Set up an iGoogle page: http://www.google.com
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3.Add tabs.
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4.Select a theme for each tab.
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5.Add “Stuff”
Challenge - Can you figure out how to view your Google Reader RSS feeds in iGoogle?
