1. Gary Green Surrey County Council Library Service
[email protected] Automating the discovery & sharing
of online information resources across multiple social
networks
2. Many Places = Many Conversations Many websites focus on
networked communication Many people are on networks - discovering,
communicating, sharing Locating/sharing information in right way,
with right audience, at right time across a number of
sites/accounts can be difficult
3. Automate to Overcome Problems Automating discovery &
sharing of resources Online services inc. www.ifttt.com Benefits
& drawbacks of automation Why your input is important The
information literacy connection
4. What is IFTTT? A free web service IFTTT = If This Then That
Connect over 60 online & messaging services (channels) together
Automatically feed information/data between channels
5. Why is it Useful? Pull information together easily Share
information easily Manage information flows Wider online presence
Organise it all via a single site Effective use of time &
resources
6. Which Services Connect? Social networks Bookmarking sites
Image, video, audio sharing sites Blogging services Document
storage & collaboration Email & messaging services Date,
time, weather, stock alerts, health/lifestyle
7. How Does it Work? Connect 2 channels together 1st channel is
the Trigger 2nd channel is the Response Each Trigger/Response combo
is a recipe If Trigger does This action Then Response does That
action Recipes are regularly checked & run
8. The Recipe Trigger - new RSS item Response - send tweet {{
}} contains data from RSS feed. You add the rest The generated
tweet
9. Recipes
10. Recipes
11. Services Similar to IFTTT Zapier https://zapier.com/
WeWiredWeb http://www.wewiredweb.com/ Elastic.io
http://www.elastic.io/ Cloudwork https://cloudwork.com/ Wappwolf
http://wappwolf.com
12. Issues and Drawbacks Information overload Its easy to
bombard people with too much information Uninformative or
misleading headlines/article titles in item feeds Information
doesnt get pulled through in the way you expect
13. Human Input Check regularly - ensure it works as expected
Control how information passes between channels Stop irrelevant
information being shared Share manually if more appropriate Use an
information literacy perspective
14. Search, Identify, Gather Useful sources of information: Any
with an ifttt channel Any with an RSS feed Better to pull in more
information & sift later? Dont automatically assume every item
will be relevant
15. Assess and Evaluate Use intermediary stage between
discovery/sharing eg Pocket: Some functionality of RSS reader
Pocket tags can be used to act as triggers Helps sift out items you
dont want to share
16. Communicate and Share Define: Where you want information to
be sent When you want it to be shared How you adapt/tailor
information to the channel
17. Organise and Archive Standardise discovery & sharing
methods Keep record/archives/logs of items shared Backup
information automatically
18. Automating Discovery and Sharing Spend less time juggling
different web presences Standardise your information sharing
practice Get the machine to take some of the strain Keep
control
19. Gary Green Surrey County Council Library Service
[email protected] Automating the discovery & sharing
of online information resources across multiple social
networks.
20. Image Credits Social media beakers iconshock.com Social
media heroes iconshock.com Social media trucks
cutelittlefactory.com Social media hearts customicondesign.com All
other screenshots www.ifttt.com