Resource of the Week: Making ResourceShelf Work for You
Resource of the Week -- Hidden Treasures in ResourceShelf
By Pete Weiss, Contributing Editor
Each abstract or discussion in ResourceShelf is tagged by the submitting editor with one of more categories which are indicated under the headline, adjacent to the timestamp. The entire set of the site's categories is found on the left hand side of the page. Each category will link you to one or more Web pages where those abstracts and discussions are found. If you click on a category, you can then bookmark it within your browser so just those targeted abstracts and discussions are grouped together.
Additionally for those of you who make use of an aggregator, you can construct your own RSS feed URL for that category and tell your aggregator to subscribe to it.
An an example, if you were interested in subscribing to the category Genealogy, you would click on it from the LH side and find this in your browser's GOTO bar
This URL for the RSS feed would then be added to your aggregator.
Either way, you've succeeded in creating a more narrowly-focused resource that may ultimately prove more useful to you.
Shirl's note:
ResourceShelf and DocuTicker Contributing editor Pete Weiss has a wealth of experience in the realm of online communications. Having retired as a systems engineer in Administrative Information Services at Pennsylvania State University -- where he was a mailing list manager and ombudsman for internal and public lists -- he is now a consultant who specializes in resolving list subscription and e-mail delivery problems, and manages a number of lists in the public service sector.
Gary's note: I would also like to go "on the record" and thank Pete for his suggestions, motivation, inspiration and his help with getting the word out about both ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. When we started asking for contributing editors, Pete is precisely the type of person we were hoping to find. We appreciate his work (talk about someone always online) and the work of all of our other contributors. We look forward to finding more "Pete's" moving forward.
The FreePint Family is a family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success.
'FreePint... provides most of my professional development because it won't come through work and [other resources] just don't cut it.'
FUMSI Forum: Do you have a research question? Post it to the FUMSI Forum, where professionals share Q&A and useful tips on how to Find, Use, Manage and Share Information. It's free.
FreePint Shop:
VIP LiveWire:
