Bloglines
From Newt
SWOT
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Strengths:
- Web-based
- Can group feeds into folders / sub-folders
- Can modify display options
Features:
- Blog notifier - no need to log in, review feeds whenever you have time
- 'Keep new' option (even when you've read a post)
- Email a post instantly
- Sharable blog-roll
- Top 1000 feeds
- Phil Bradley's fave !
Weaknesses
- slightly cumbersome to add a new feed (can't just darg and drop)
- slightly old looking / feeling (is it still being developed?)
Opportunities
- Could use with researchers to show them how to get RSS for journals, WOS searchers
- Our own CPD in LS
- RSS from our webpages when re-launched?
- Supporting academics in setting up RSS displays in webct (we managed to do this, but slightly faffy)
- exporting and importing of feeds using OPML [CPD use? eg one person on a group / project sets up feeds and exports to all other members ] Need to test
- promoting tools for finding blogs / RSS = technorati etc
- RSS from our own blogs
Threats
- another tool to learn for users - would be useful to agree preferred RSS aggregator within LS, so we can fully exploit
