Today's lesson has been RSS Feeds & Feed Readers. People can subscribe to sites so they can find information they want fairly quickly. We use an RSS feed at our house when we are planning our Disney trip. We have certain sites where we get our information, such as Inside the Magic, http://www.distantcreations.com/insidethemagic/. I get Ricky's podcasts and listen to them while I am walking, which is another step in preparing for a Disney trip. Then I download the podcast on my mp3 players and listen to it while I exercise. The episodes are about one hour long.
Libraries can use RSS feeds to let customers know what is happening at the library. People can subscribe to a regular announcement about library events, say, for example, a podcast or even a list of events. When events are updated, a message can be generated to your home to let you know a program is coming up. Maybe we can describe some details. In other words, it's like the phone announcement except it comes to you, rather than you calling it.
We can use blogs and RSS feeds when it comes time to pass a library levy in the same way. Let customers subscribe to updates and information about the levy. We can include FAQs one week, and a town forum style podcast another week.
Someone asked whether it is useful to get posts right when they are published. It depends. Yes, on time sensitve things, such as ride refurbishments if I'm about to make a trip to Disney World. Not really, if I've just been and have not started to plan my next trip yet. Some of that information is good anytime.
I also subscribe to Dave Ross' podcasts and those are good anytime!
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