Thing 4: Current Awareness - RSS, Twitter, Pushnote

This week (thing!?) I have been looking at using different media for current awareness.  I use both RSS feeds and Twitter regularly for work, professional development and my own personal life.  I follow many blogs/news feeds/etc using the RSS feeds through either Outlook or Google reader.  I find them a useful way to keep up to date with what's going on in the world but also what other peoples opinions are about different topics.

I started using Twitter a few years ago and loved it, then hated it, then loved it again...I'm still in the love it phase!  I've set up two separate accounts, one for work  and one for my personal use.  I also Tweet on behalf of JISC RSC Wales (so have three accounts running on Tweetdeck).  I found Twitter useful for current awareness but also use hash tags to follow events such as conferences and general chat around subjects.

Pushnote I have never heard of and consequently have never used!  So I have signed up and had a play around.  I've visited a few websites but no comments have come up so I'm not entirely sure it is relevant for me.  Also I tend to go on my own judgement of whether a website is useful or not so I'm not sure on Pushnote.

One issue I have is sometimes I feel completely overwhelmed trying to keep up to date with everything that is happening.  I read through my RSS feeds, I check Twitter several times a day, I also subscribe to a vast amount of email discussion lists and use various other social media.  Linking accounts has helped so that if I update Twitter for example it updates my LinkedIn profile, but often feel I could do with hiring someone to sift through all this news and give me the gems!