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Fire Service Current Awareness Services Using Yahoo Pipes
1. InFire 2010 ConferenceCurrent Awareness Services for our Fire Service Stakeholders Using Yahoo Pipes Edward Metz (MLIS, MA) Head Librarian National Emergency Training Center Library Tel: 301-447-1046 email – edward.metz@dhs.gov
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4. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview Where is the value in providing a current awareness service? Adds value to our web presence Who better than information professionals should identify, organize and disseminate timely information of value to the fire service community? There are some 1.3 million or more members of the fire service community in the United States. What better way to reach them than over the web with info they can trust and potentially use?
5. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview Fire prevention community Sprinklers smoke alarms Fire codes/inspections Fire-safe cigarettes CO detectors Novelty/toy lighters Campaigns/Fire prevention efforts Wildfire Safety Campus fire safety More fire safety news International fire safety news
6. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview Yahoo Pipes: Free web tool for mashing up RSS feeds using a visual editor Just need a Yahoo account Don’t have to necessarily create from scratch. You can clone any publicly available Pipe and adapt it to your needs. But its easy and fun to do on your own as well
13. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources Information sources – Fire and emergency service RSS feeds Here’s one place to start
14. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources Information sources – Fire and emergency service RSS feeds Copy the RSS feed url from the browser bar
22. Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes Connect the sort function to output and click on the output module To then see the results click on save and run pipe
31. More you can do with PipesMap Mashups– RSS/Yahoo Pipes You can export the KML file from Yahoo and import it into Google Maps Here are the civilian fire casualties September 2009
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