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Contents

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

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