media monitoring and current awareness: new tools
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My panel presentation for the session Media Monitoring and Current Awareness: Tools in the Information Explosion - presented at CALL2010 for the Canadian Association of Law Libraries on May 10, 2010 in Windsor, ON, CanadaTRANSCRIPT
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Media Monitoring and Current Awareness: Tools in the
Information Explosion
by Connie CrosbyCrosby Group Consulting
for CALL/ACBD/MichALL 2010Windsor, Monday, May 10, 2010
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RSS feeds
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XML code
Source: http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_examples.asp
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Find the feed - e.g. http://www.legalpubs.ca/
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Choose your feed reader
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Add to feed reader or copy the feed URL
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Other RSS feed sources
• blogs
• news sources
• publication websites
• subscription services - search results
• Google News search results
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Google News search - RSS at bottom of page
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No feed available? Create one - Dapper http://www.dapper.net/open/
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Google Reader
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Organize RSS feeds in Google Reader & tag items
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Under “Manage Subscriptions” > “Folders and Tags” - click on “private” for tag Banking
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Sharing options - public page, email or add clip (widget) to your web pages
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Sharing page - “Banking” - dedicated URL & feed
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Yahoo! Pipes
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Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -simple sample feed aggregation
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Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -simple sample feed aggregation
Fetch RSS Feeds
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Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -simple sample feed aggregation
Sort feeds by date
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Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -simple sample feed aggregation
Show only 20 results
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Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -simple sample feed aggregation
final output (RSS feed)
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Running the results inside Yahoo! Pipes
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Various options for using the results
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•pull together feeds
•filter results
•create a custom search
•make results available by email
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Widgets
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Yahoo! Pipes - use one of their badges
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Customize your widget
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Customizing - test different settings
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Ask for embed code (HTML code)
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Add the widget HTML code to a page
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Grab code & feed info through widgets e.g. JD Supra widget
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e.g. Mag.ma - feed of favourite videos
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Semantic Web
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Eqentia - http://portal.eqentia.com - semantic search results
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Results - sort by region, industry, company, people, issues & topics
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Refine search results
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Works with free + subscription sources
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Mobile delivery
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Build your own
iPhone app
e.g. Navigator app
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Delivering selected
news
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Link to web
sources
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App users can
share theirfavourites
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Cannedmessages
makes sharing
convenient
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Viigo.com -
customizable news for the Blackberry
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5,000+ pre-set news
channels
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5,000+ pre-set news
channels+
add selectionsfrom your
feed reader!
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Concluding thoughts
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1. automate what you can
(information management)
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2.then focus your time &
effort on knowledge work
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• increasing complexity and client needs:
• automate what you can for ongoing routine current awareness, as customized as possible (information management)
• for difficult projects, automate what you can but this is an opportunity to use your knowledge skills to develop and analyze (knowledge work)
• competitive intelligence
• business intelligence
• such as reference requests for specialized monitoring
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Keith Swensonon
knowledge work:
VP R&D - Fujitsu America
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Non-repeated
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Unpredictable
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Emergent
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and robust in the face of variable conditions
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Where do our
services fit in?
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Start simple & build on success
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Selected Sources (1/2)• Brown, Scott, “Yahoo! Pipes: Relevant information on tap,” FUMSI, November
2009http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4342
• Michele Gamache, Web 2.0, Legal IT 4 conference, Montreal, April 26, 2010.Will be posted to: http://legalit.ca/en/about/publications/
• Steve Matthews, “New Feed Mix for DUI Law,” Slaw.ca, July 31, 2008.http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/31/new-feed-mix-for-dui-law/
• Steve Matthews, “Yahoo Pipes Tutorial for Feed Mixing,” Slaw.ca, June 22, 2008.http://www.slaw.ca/2008/06/22/yahoo-pipes-tutorial-for-feed-mixing/
• Keith D. Swenson, The Nature of Knowledge Work, Process.gov conference, Reston, VA, April 15, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/kswenson/the-nature-of-knowledge-work
• David Whelan, Finding and Managing Legal Information on the Internet, Canada Law Book, 2010.
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Thank you!Connie Crosby
Crosby Group Consultinghttp://crosbygroup.ca
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Image Credits
• “.|Unique|.” by clix http://www.sxc.hu/photo/923718 - used under stock.xchng standard licensing
• Alaskan double rainbow by Connie Crosby - available under Creative Commons
• “Emerging Beauty” by timsamoff on Flickr - used under Creative Commons - http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff/106779233/
• “Blick auf Karlsbad - Karlovy Vary” by fleckchen - used under Creative Commons - http://www.flickr.com/photos/amanda63/4499939895/
• Image of business man used under standard stock.xchng license http://www.sxc.hu
• “Simplicity” by subodev - Flickr - used under Creative Commonshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/suvodeb/3188700716/