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Make RSS feed from any Facebook Page

You could ask why on earth do you want that....   Well, simply to insert the feed into a feed reader or make all posts/updates available in an "aggregator" like Rebelmouse.com.  With Rebelmouse you can create your own social media Frontpage (and blog) based on various social media accounts, searches AND RSS feeds. ( More on Rebelmouse and the power of curation  ) Say I want to add Facebook posts ánd images from the page Inuit Art Zone  into a Rebelmouse I made about Inuit Art . Rebelmouse offers to add My Pages via my facbook account, but other pages can only be entered via RSS. You only need TWO things :  the base url string for the RSS feed:  http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id= the Facebook ID of the page: Find the Facebook (Page) ID Add the ID at the end of the url string and you have a complete working RSS feed! For   Inuit Art Zone  the RSS feed would be: http://www.facebook.com/fee...

Alliance Virtual Library honors Volunteers with Golden Leaf Awards

Image by testdriverone via Flickr I received one too for the work (as Namro Orman) done in almost three year new for HealthInfoIsland together with Carol Perryman (aka Carolina Keats)! We achieved a lot. Worked on at least 4 Grant funded projects: AIDS Information and Outreach in the Virtual World of Second Life VIRTUAL ABILITY ISLAND GRAND OPENING! Share the Health: Training People with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions on how to Locate Quality Health Information Alliance Library System Receives Grant to Provide Consumer Health Information Services in Virtual World Final Project Report for HealthInfo Island Project in Second Life Now Available! We also published a chapter in a book called Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries. The Golden Leaf Award Night was spectacular, with cocktail party, limo-trip, red carpets, tv and speeches. Here is some motivation as wel l: " Almost three years ago, in April 2006, the Alliance Virtual Library(AVL), at that time the Second Life Libra...

ScienceRoll Medical Search : new federated search tool

ScienceRoll Medical Search is a new federated search tool created by Bertelan (Berci) Meskó together with PolyMeta . Scienceroll Medical Search is a personalized medical metasearch engine . You can choose the databases you want to search in and exclude any of them to make your search as individualized as possible. ...The aim is to create a useful, editable metasearch engine for the entire medical community. And it does what is said: there are 4 major search categories (Basic Health Information, Drugs, Organizations and Research Information) with all together 23 "databases" which can be selected by choice. it delivers fast results (within 10 second) presented in manageable merged first set with an " Also Consider" advice a clustered overview of Topics, Date and Format in a relevance ranked order I hope Berci is working on two major things that I and many others (clinicians and other medical staff) would love ..: a drill-down option for the results (incl. sele...

Should a Library make a Facebook Group or a Page?

When you consider having a library presence in social networks, and got Facebook on your list for some reason (for instance, because ..% of your users have a Facebook account) think carefully before you actually create anything. The Group function is used very often, but actually does not offer that much functionality. Many applications, ( FB or Third-party) can not be added to Group-pages. My advice is to support any Group with one or more Facebook Pages (also referred to as Fan Pages). The most interesting application is by Facebook itself and is called "Static FBML" . Static FBML By Facebook Add advanced functionality to your Page using the Facebook Static FBML application. This application will add a box to your Page in which you can render HTML or FBML (Facebook Markup Language) for enhanced Page customization.) With the use of the Static FBML box (Facebook mark-up language) you can almost add any webcontent with html code into little gadgets/widgets in a Faceboo...