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Research Tips: Customize Your News – Alternatives to Google Reader

Research Tips: Customize Your News – Alternatives to Google Reader. Library and Research Services. Session Overview. Three approaches to news reading: Search alerts: research specific topic, person, phrase RSS feed readers: read on broader topics, from many sources

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Research Tips: Customize Your News – Alternatives to Google Reader

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  1. Research Tips: Customize Your News – Alternatives to Google Reader Library and Research Services

  2. Session Overview Three approaches to news reading: • Search alerts:research specific topic, person, phrase • RSS feed readers: read on broader topics, from many sources • Browse platforms: learn about new sources Online Research Guide: http://cfr.libguides.com/googlereader Reduce reading overload: Skip the spam and save time without missing what’s important

  3. Search Alerts Most research-driven method: known, narrow interest Track mentions of fellow online (*check with Communications too) Benefits: • streamlined: check fewer places for articles; skip spam, ads • automated: most relevant articles delivered to you • customizable:you specify keywords, sources, frequency • credible: drawing from important sources

  4. Search Alerts

  5. Search Alerts

  6. RSS Feeds RSS feeds vs. search alerts: • Receive an overview of several topics and sources simultaneously • No sorting through individual emails • Some readers allow: categories, feed search, tags, highlighted keywords • Alert emails won’t get lost in spam or archive folders • Email feeds in Outlook may slow it down Feedly: • Add and search for new feeds by URL/tag/topic/category/most popular • Add search alerts from websites, search engines, blogs, and/or databases • Mobile app: Mark favorite sources as “Must Read” • Several viewing options and apps available (including recommended feeds) • Delete read stories or save for later • Tags vs. categories • Separate feeds by source type and usage (e.g. “IR Blogs,” “U.S.-based news sources,” “Business News”) • Tags for multiple research topics across several categories  

  7. RSS Feeds Feedly browser extension (Firefox, Chrome): • Add, save and share feeds and/or articles directly from the source • No need to log into Feedly Other RSS reader features: • Curata Reader and G2 Reader: • Search within feeds • “Teach” your source and keyword preferences • Limit by and/or highlight key words within articles • Digg Reader: Shows which articles from your sources have been most frequently shared

  8. Discovery/Browse Services Differences between Discovery and some RSS readers/search alerts • Better for browsing, than following topic • Personalized: learns what you click on, suggests similar feeds. • (Some feed readers have too!) • Magazine-like • More socially-driven Taptu • “Stream Store”/Add Stream: topical, source, featured, new streams currently no database feeds • “Split” sources into new stream (including for keyword search) • Related articles Other kinds: Newsmap; Noowit/Flipboard

  9. Questions? …and follow up Feedly and Taptu have active support communities; if you’d like to see a feature that’s not currently offered, post in their feedback forums. We will send an email with our research guide for this session, which will include links to all handouts and tools. Contact us at AskLibrary@cfr.org or x. 4583 Thank you!

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