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A POC’s unintended consequences

understandingA serendipitous outcome from today’s meeting were some tips to make our jobs just that little bit easier - totally separate from POC.

With this POC, we’re wrestling in detail with understanding the way an Information Officer works to provide resources for educators.

Our discussion prompted Nick to suggest using Google alerts to monitor websites without RSS or email newsletters. This is immediately useful to all IOs here.

This sharing of knowledge and understanding each other jobs are great unintended consequences of the Proof of Concept.

This entry was written by Tom Cotton and posted on June 14, 2007 at 4:29 pm and filed under Educationau, proof of concept, collection improvement. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Miles
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 5:30 pm | Permalink

    Also I find Feedity very useful, it’s an RSS generator for websites without syndication formats. A good option if you’re already using an RSS reader to monitor other sites.

  2. Nick Lothian
    Posted June 15, 2007 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    Actually, I suggested using a Google Linked Custom Search Engine on sites where pages are updated to link to new items.

    Google Alerts isn’t a bad idea, though.

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