I’ve heard of RSS years ago, but never used it before. I’d seen the icons on sites such as the BBC’s news pages but didn’t know how to actually use them. Having set up the google reader account I can see the value of having information feeds in one place, and the process of developing this is relatively simply to do.
It appears to be extremely valuable for keeping track of blogs that you follow. Being able to organise them in folders and see updated items makes the process of reading them quite efficient.
Twitter is also new to me. Personally I prefer to write articles rather than snippets and I feel the same about reading, but I can see it has some use. For example, I looked at the CILIP’s New Professionals Day 2012 tag, but didn’t feel that this compared with conference notes found on blogs or presentations that can be read elsewhere on such as slideshare or prezi. Maybe I’ll have to spend more time using the site and investigating what’s out there.
I do feel that I have learned new skills as I can now use these tools, which previously I hadn’t made use of. I think that they are both useful, along with storify, for current awareness and for organising and keeping track of items of interest.
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