RSS

Newsfeeds: delivering the latest news to your virtual doorstep; and ways to share it! (#9 Social Media Tools Series)

Here’s a test: Take a look at the bookmarks of your favorite websites and blog sites, and tell me how often you browse them? If your answer is not often enough, allow me to let you in on a little secret – it’s called “RSS” in geekspeak, and “newsfeeds” in English. If you’d...

The KS learning experience.

During the second day of open space I following the law of two feet I butterflied between sessions on KS tools with some occasional bee like behaviour. The most exciting thing I learned was that in this community RSS doesn’t stand for Remote Sensing Society, but for Really Simple Syndication!...

New Tool on the Kit: RSS

Thanks to IFPRI’s Information and Knowledge Management Specialist Pete Shelton the KS Toolkit has a new section on RSS. He shares with us the following tips: Although RSS and newsreader services are often promoted as potential time savers, they also can be highly addictive. Thus, instead of resulting...

Tools, Tools, and More Tools

Before launch we did a 2 hour session on KS tools. Participants had identified previously a set of tools that they wanted to get to know better and discuss further. We used the Commoncraft Show videos as an introduction and than shared our experiences, questions and answers. Here are some examples: Wikis Can...

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