Truthfully here...I do not get it....Why would I look for some strangers comments on stuff??? I just don't care what the average person thinks about....stuff! I know...that sounds mean!! oops!
So, I am trying to figure how this is useful to our world....I think if we could gain insight on how an exhibit is viewed by our visitors? How successful a program is or is not....then I can see the value.....Should we be the pioneers of having an RSS feed on our institution??? Perhaps the answer depends on how much we really want to know about how the cyber-world views us...will we actually make any changes of exhibitions, topics, programming based on (basically) anonymous posts?
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hmmm. . . a couple of things.
well, first, if we were to have RSS feeds, we would use them to let people know about updates to our website (new online exhibits, additions to the take a closer look, additions to library, manuscripts, and museum collections, events, and such.)
The RSS feeds wouldn't alert us to popular opinion about the VHS. Rather they would alert the populous to news pertaining to the VHS. Likewise, if I wanted to keep up with the Library of Virginia or Colonial Williamsburg (BTW CW makes great use of RSS feeds, check them out) I would (and do!) subscribe to their feeds.
Syndic8 and topix pull RSS feeds from places like the VHS or Colonial Williamsburg to one site so you can search from one place for feeds of items or places of interest to you.
As for blogs, I learn about advances in the library world in large part through the various blogs I subscribe to. (That's how I found out about this program.) The comment(s) I've made regarding what people are saying about the VHS have largely been directed to development (who do track this stuff) and curators of exhibits (think how Bill R and Dr. Bryan felt about the NYHS's representation of the Lee and Grant exhibit and which to me suggests the need for keeping abreast of the attention (or not) the VHS receives).
A rather long comment covering a lot. Please let me know if I went overboard or conversely if I didn't fully address something.
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