Introduction to iGoogle · iGoogle is a content management system that provides for: y Web 2.0...
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Introduction to iGoogle
Matt SeibertAdjunct Reference/Instruction LibrarianHACC York Campus
iGoogle is a content management system that provides for:
Web 2.0 IntegrationGmailRSS FeedsBlogging and BlogsNews ReportsGadgets
What is Web 2.0?
Interactive Internet
It allows you to retrieve information and it automatically retrieves information for you.
It provides “elegant organization” to your life. (Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, etc.)
Wait… What is iGoogle?
What are RSS feeds?
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)Gadgets that bring us news, blogs, information, etc.When you see the button shown below, it links to an RSS feed.
RSS Feeds work in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox
The Internet Explorer 7 browser can read RSS feeds.However, it becomes the primary RSS Reader, and you cannot access it remotely.This can become a problem, if you want to check daily search results from another computer.So far Firefox has no issues.
In Microsoft Internet Explorer 7+ We Must Disable Automatic Feed Recognition
Settings for Feeds
Turn off feed reading view
Un-check Box
In Google, we make a Google Account to use with iGoogle.
How do we make a Google Account?
Create an Account
Google Account
Google Account
Account Verification
Logged into Google Home
Click on iGoogle
Making an iGoogle Page
Let’s make iGoogle Home Pages
Drop Stuff
Add Stuff
Let’s get some Gadgets
Added Gadgets
Let’s get a Theme
iGoogle Page Furnished
Let’s get some News and Information
Search Results
National Public Radio NPR.org
RSS Feed Health and Science News
Add to Google
Automated Addition: Add to Google Homepage
NPR Topics: Health and Science
Let’s connect to a Blog
Searching Blogs
Limited to Educational Blogs site:.edu
Blog (Click the RSS Feed Link)
What is this? (RSS Code)
RSS Feed Link
http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/latestnews/feed◦ The link above connects to RSS Code◦ We can just copy the link into the iGoogle
RSS Reader and it will work
Some RSS Feed Links will have the extension .rss
Now click on “Add Stuff”
Adding an RSS Feed manually
Enter the Feed URL (http://***) RSS Code
Added
Library Information with RSS
Click on Articles & Newspapers, then click on Databases A - Z
Click on EBSCOhost
Click on Health Source, then Continue
EBSCOhost
RSS Button above Results
RSS Alert for my Search Topic “myocardium”
RSS Code Again
Add Feed or Gadget
Daily Search Results
Good Luck
Have Fun