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  RSS Feed Readers Screenshot from Feeder.com  Technology can be a blessing and a curse.  You may be finding it a challenge to keep up with all your social media outlets.  If so, you might want to try using a RSS Feed reader app to collect posts from your favorite bloggers and social media outlets. For any viewers that are not familiar with RSS Feed readers, this blog post will be covering a quick glimpse into them and will allow you to decide which RSS Feed app could work the best for you. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication", and it's a computer program that collects and organizes headings and update notices from online sources. If you are familiar with RSS Feeds, maybe it’s time to check out a different one to see if a different feed reader might work better for you.  And if nothing else, after reading this post, you might find a new blog to follow.  Scroll through to learn more about several RSS Feed readers, spec...

Social Networking @ Twitter It is my intent with this post to share my experiences with the social networking platform of Twitter.  I've documented the posts that were interesting and significant to me, and have shared my reflections on how these posts are relevant in my pursuit to best serve my current students, colleagues, and future library patrons.  I chose to organize the information in this manner, as it closely matched the previous ways I have posted information.  I began participating in Twitter at the end of May. Using Social Media as a Librarian Where to start, I have learned so much in these 3 months, as I have dabbled in Twitter.  I've laughed, cried, learned, heard the perspective of others, and have seen the true benefits of participating in the social learning community. As technology is constantly changing, using social media is one way for a librarian or teacher to assure that they are aware of these changes.  They can also...