Still the Hors d'oeuvres

Ooops a bit more on "Thing 5" 

RefWorks

Endnote Web

For management of my readings and articles I used End-note (then RefWorks) because I not only had the references available to me for when I was writing but because you could save documents to the references. In the record of an article I would save a PDF version of it. 

I would also write notes about how I could use the references and attach those to the appropriate record as well. 

Hors d'oeuvres

Ko ia kāhore nei i rapu, tē kitea
"He who does not seek will not find"

Now on to "Thing 5", I was never really sure exactly what and how I would use RSS feeds. I have had a tutu with them using Outlook my work email which allow us to subscribe to RSS feeds, that seems a long time ago and I had not thought about news feeds until this thing. 

So far I think the trick, for me to use social media successfully for research is discipline. I like routine so if I start by allocating time directly after checking emails to blog writing and feed scanning after a short while it will become second nature. 

For management of news and  information I have a love of folders, although I haven't looked at the RSS feeds since I subscribed to them, I still have them organised in folders. I have also organised my bookmarks (in Explorer) into folders and as you can see below, some even have sub-folders (must be the librarian in me)

Before I finish with this "Thing" I wanted to share a page relevant for those who use Google Chrome browser and Feedly. I added the RSS Subscription extension (For Google Chrome browser) a suggestion at the bottom of "thing 5"  and found I had to add Feedly manually to the list of feed readers. Follow the link if you would like to use Feedly with RSS Subscription extension  from the Google Chrome browser. There is also the Feedly mini extension made for Google Chrome browser however I haven't bothered with this one as the instructions to add Feedly to the News reader were quite easy to follow.

Hors d'ouvre: Things number 4 and 5

Ko ia kāhore nei i rapu, tē kitea
"He who does not seek will not find"

I may have botched my blog up as I thought I would try and incorporate my love of food and eating by giving the blog posts course names, however there are only so many courses that are possible. A colleague suggested that you need something to differentiate your blog from the thousands of other blogs, to do this I thought I would like to start each post or group of "Things" with a whakatauki or māori proverb.

I chose the proverb above because I have searched this week for a blog to follow and for "Thing 4" I have to convince the rest of the "23 Things" crew why they should choose to follow it as well. 

Being relatively new to blogging I have to admit that at this point in time I am not a regular reader of any blog however I have found one thanks to the power of Google. 

The Association of College and Research Libraries blog is of interest to myself obviously because I am a Subject Librarian for an academic institute, actually I have worked in a tertiary library for almost 10 years I honestly think that it will be of interest to some of you as well. 

With a brief 20 minute look I have found the following things which may make this blog attractive to you also.

• Ease of navigation using the normal search functionality by clicking on the magnifying glass and typing in keywords as well as Categories and Tags

• Content: the posts cover a wide range of topics from Academia through to Wikipedia. I have found posts on Publishing and other subjects and themes of interest to any researcher.

• Offers examples of academic posts such as this one for conference blogging for those of us who attend and present at conferences.

• There are multiple authors which means different writing styles, which means there is a variety of voice to the posts and also expertise.

Thing 5 to come