My panel presentation for the session Media Monitoring and Current Awareness: Tools in the Information Explosion - presented at CALL2010 for the Canadian Association of Law Libraries on May 10, 2010 in Windsor, ON, Canada

1. Media Monitoring and
Current Awareness: Tools in the
Information Explosion
by Connie Crosby
Crosby Group Consulting
for CALL/ACBD/MichALL 2010
Windsor, Monday, May 10, 2010

2. RSS feeds

3. XML code
Source: http://www.w3schools.com/XML/
xml_examples.asp

4. Find the feed - e.g. http://www.legalpubs.ca/

5. Find the feed - e.g. http://www.legalpubs.ca/

6. Choose your feed reader

7. Add to feed reader or copy the feed URL

8. Other RSS feed sources
• blogs
• news sources
• publication websites
• subscription services - search results
• Google News search results

9. Google News search - RSS at bottom of page

10. No feed available? Create one -
Dapper http://www.dapper.net/open/

11. Google Reader

12. Organize RSS feeds in Google Reader
& tag items

13. Under “Manage Subscriptions” > “Folders and Tags” -
click on “private” for tag Banking

14. Sharing options - public page, email or
add clip (widget) to your web pages

15. Sharing page - “Banking” - dedicated URL & feed

16. Yahoo! Pipes

17. Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -
simple sample feed aggregation

18. Fetch RSS Feeds
Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -
simple sample feed aggregation

19. Sort feeds by
date
Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -
simple sample feed aggregation

20. Show
only 20 results
Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -
simple sample feed aggregation

21. final output
(RSS feed)
Yahoo! Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com -
simple sample feed aggregation

22. Running the results inside Yahoo! Pipes

23. Various options for using the results

24. • pull together feeds
• filter results
• create a custom search
• make results available by email

25. Widgets

26. Yahoo! Pipes - use one of their badges

27. Customize your widget

28. Customizing - test different settings

29. Ask for embed code (HTML code)

30. Add the widget HTML code to a page

31. Grab code & feed info through widgets
e.g. JD Supra widget

32. e.g. Mag.ma - feed of favourite videos

33. Semantic Web

34. Eqentia - http://portal.eqentia.com
- semantic search results

35. Results - sort by region, industry,
company, people, issues & topics

36. Refine search results

37. Works with free + subscription sources

38. Mobile delivery

39. Build your
own
iPhone app
e.g. Navigator app

40. Delivering
selected
news

41. Link to
web
sources

42. App users
can
share their
favourites

43. Canned
messages
makes
sharing
convenient

44. Viigo.com
-
customizable
news for the
Blackberry

45. 5,000+
pre-set news
channels

46. 5,000+
pre-set news
channels
+
add selections
from your
feed reader!

47. Concluding thoughts

48. 1.
automate what you can
(information management)

49. 2.
then focus your time &
effort on
knowledge work

50. • increasing complexity and client needs:
• automate what you can for ongoing routine current
awareness, as customized as possible (information
management)
• for difficult projects, automate what you can but this is
an opportunity to use your knowledge skills to develop
and analyze (knowledge work)
• competitive intelligence
• business intelligence
• such as reference requests for specialized monitoring

51. Keith Swenson
on
knowledge work:
VP R&D - Fujitsu America

52. Non-repeated

53. Unpredictable

54. Emergent

55. and robust
in the face
of variable
conditions

56. Where do
our
services fit
in?

57. Start simple
& build on
success

58. Selected Sources (1/2)
• Brown, Scott, “Yahoo! Pipes: Relevant information on tap,” FUMSI, November
2009
http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/find/4342
• Michele Gamache, Web 2.0, Legal IT 4 conference, Montreal, April 26, 2010.
Will be posted to: http://legalit.ca/en/about/publications/
• Steve Matthews, “New Feed Mix for DUI Law,” Slaw.ca, July 31, 2008.
http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/31/new-feed-mix-for-dui-law/
• Steve Matthews, “Yahoo Pipes Tutorial for Feed Mixing,” Slaw.ca, June 22, 2008.
http://www.slaw.ca/2008/06/22/yahoo-pipes-tutorial-for-feed-mixing/
• Keith D. Swenson, The Nature of Knowledge Work, Process.gov conference,
Reston,VA, April 15, 2010.
http://www.slideshare.net/kswenson/the-nature-of-knowledge-work
• David Whelan, Finding and Managing Legal Information on the Internet, Canada
Law Book, 2010.

59. Thank you!
Connie Crosby
Crosby Group Consulting
http://crosbygroup.ca
connie@crosbygroup.ca
416-919-6719

60. Image Credits
• “.|Unique|.” by clix http://www.sxc.hu/photo/923718 - used under stock.xchng
standard licensing
• Alaskan double rainbow by Connie Crosby - available under Creative Commons
• “Emerging Beauty” by timsamoff on Flickr - used under Creative Commons -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff/106779233/
• “Blick auf Karlsbad - Karlovy Vary” by fleckchen - used under Creative Commons -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amanda63/4499939895/
• Image of business man used under standard stock.xchng license http://www.sxc.hu
• “Simplicity” by subodev - Flickr - used under Creative Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suvodeb/3188700716/