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Review of Sharon Tuersley's talk at PPRG09 - Warwick library branding. Includes mention of style guide, marketing advisory group, and trick or treat stand for Halloween. - Jo Alcock

Materials for classroom displays. - Jo Alcock

Google's alert service to keep track of new web items in your area of interest. Can be set up as an email alert or RSS feed. - Jo Alcock

Powerpoint presentation for the University of Wolverhampton Staff Development session "Feed me! Using RSS, bookmarking and other web tools to make the most of your research time online". Are you suffering with information overload? Trying to keep abreast of the latest research papers, industry or educational news, updates from professional organisations, conferences, government reports, and ever-changing websites can be a challenge. RSS feeds are an excellent way of bringing relevant content to your desktop and keeping you up-to-date with new items of interest in your teaching or research subject areas, allowing you to control what information you access and how and when you access it. - Jo Alcock

Recent blog post reviewing ten different tools for keeping up-to-date with scholarly research - Jo Alcock

Desktop RSS reader for Windows PCs (free download), also synchronises with Google Reader. - Jo Alcock

Desktop RSS reader for Mac (free download), also synchronises with Google Reader. - Jo Alcock

RSS in Plain English video - introduction to RSS and how to use Google Reader. Also check out the other Common Craft videos which offer simple explanations to other topics such as Twitter and social bookmarking. - Jo Alcock

Bloglines RSS reader - an alternative browser-based RSS feed reader to Google Reader. - Jo Alcock

Google's RSS reader - available on any web browser and also integrated to many other products including synchronisation with desktop and mobile readers such as NetNewsWire, and gadgets on start pages such as Netvibes and iGoogle. - Jo Alcock

You were about 2 blocks from the library where I work when you took these pictures of the Flatiron Building! And the photo of the movie shoot trailer is in front of my sister's office, where I met her for lunch yesterday; funny, I may have walked right by you if you were there around lunchtime. - Stephen Francoeur

Wow! We visited the NYPL but no other libraries as yet. We sat in Madison Square park for a while as our bodies were starting to feel the time difference! Great to see the city. - Jo Alcock from iPhone

Make sure you check out the American Museum of Natural History! - Stephen Francoeur

Magic Key - BBC resource based on Oxford Reading Tree characters - Jo Alcock

Twitter strategy for government - Jo Alcock

Resources to purchase for different sports. - Jo Alcock

IT resource for primary - Jo Alcock

JISC report on student use of research (e.g. Google, library catalogue, social networks) - Jo Alcock

Electronic version of Cite Them Right (compatible for most VLEs) - Jo Alcock

University of Wolverhampton's QAA audit 2008 - Jo Alcock

I have only just moved to Google Reader (I think you helped convince me, and recommend a good iphone reader, thanks!) but have started to use the 'share' option and will probably try and promote/use the share feed in at a later date http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Keene

don't think so, haven't set it up (though that doesn't seem to stop things appearing on different sites these days!) - Chris Keene

Looks very useful, might have to start investigating making some bundles - would perhaps be useful for UK library blogs wiki. - Jo Alcock

Great report, haven't had time to read it all yet but hope to. - Jo Alcock

I don't think it is about number of subscribers (I haven't a clue how many i have), and it's something that builds up over time. I glance at my analytics/wp stats but take them with a pinch of salt. I find that over time google brings people in. - Chris Keene

What John D. et al said. (Actually, 25 subscribers after 2 months isn't bad...) If you're saying worthwhile things, sooner or later you'll reach an audience. After a year, if you decide it isn't working out, change it or drop it. Comments are *not* the measure of a good blog--some of the best don't even allow them. Chris: Not sure I see your point. Of course a blog is a form of website--but it's a distinctive last-in/first-out form. - Walt Crawford

is that the one in Olympia? Fond memories of trying out every bar in (and around) the place, forgot to look at any of the stalls - Chris Keene

Well I wasn't going to point it out, but yes it was a good clue. It's all well and good showing you the new tweets but you have to read them you know! :P - Jo Alcock

Teaching resources - Jo Alcock

Useful for Learning 2.0 - Jo Alcock

Useful for Learning 2.0 - Jo Alcock

Brian Kelly's presentation at CILIP2.0 event - Jo Alcock

Geography resources and maps - Jo Alcock

Free teacher resources - Jo Alcock

Free teaching resources - click on Order a Pack to order - Jo Alcock