COMM 4310 & 4314 (Berryhill)
For all those students in 4314, I hope you learned some helpful resources yesterday. Don’t forget the first thing you will want to do is start your FeedReader account. We talked about Bloglines and Google Reader. If you have questions contact me.
I look forward to sharing the same information with 4310 today! Here is the handout for the classes…
RSS/Feed Readers
RSS is a technology that automatically sends you new information. Add RSS links to Feedreaders which automatically update to provide you with new posts, news, podcasts, etc.
- Bloglines – www.bloglines.com
- Google Reader
- Podcasts
Social Bookmarking
Save WebPages and links to a bookmarking website that you can access wherever you go, see what others are tagging, see the most popular sites.
- Delicious – http://delicious.com
- FURL – www.furl.net
Finding New Blogs and or News
Use these specialized search engines to find blogs and news stories.
- Technorati – http://technorati.com
- Google Blog Search – http://blogsearch.google.com/
- Digg – http://digg.com/
- Digg is a great tool to discover new sites and news stories. Stories are submitted and ranked according to reader “diggs” i.e. votes.
Things to Use in Your Blog
- Tags/Categories (Tag Cloud ex: http://technorati.com/tag)
- Pictures – Flickr, Picasso
- Tables, Graphs, etc (The Pew Research Center is helpful – http://pewresearch.org)
Other Recommended Sources (From the library of course)
- New York Times (both current and historical)
- Wall Street Journal
- Harpers
- LexisNexis (Library Access)
- Newspaper Source (Library Access)
- Library Communication Page – http://info.lib.uh.edu/libraries/communications.html
- Christina’s Communication Blog – http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/communications/
