I've often wanted to use these but never got round to setting them up.
I found JournalITocs incredible easy to use. The registration was quick and easy and i've already added a number of journals. I also added the RSS feeds to my Reader.
I do love Google Reader. It's so easy to mange the feeds. I can see that this could be quite addictive. At first I was wary of adding too much as I still need to find the time to read the feeds. But I soon realised that if you manage your feeds you can still keep up to date without feeling overwhelmed with information. If I just want to know about what's happening in the library world, I'll just look at my library feeds, etc.
I also found Google alerts very easy to use. I'm not sure how much I would use this, or how useful i would find it. I set up a couple of alerts for personal interests to go to my gmail account. I don't always remember to check this account as it's not my main personal email account. I also think i might get a bit fed up with receiving multiple alerts, but as I haven't received any yet it's too early to say if I think this will work.
From a library perspective, I think the Reader and the Journal alerts will be much more useful.
One last point, I've spent a lot of time on this section as I don't want to fall behind. I'm really enjoying the course and learning a lot, but it has to be said you do need to commit a fair amount of time to this.
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