# 4: Personal startpage

Personal home page

By using a personal home page you can collect useful information on your own page. Here you can see your emails, news from journals and blogs, news feeds from database searches, personal calendar, local weather forecast and much more - useful and not so useful :-) You can also select themes to give your page a personal look. iGoogle, Netvibes and Pageflakes are providers of home pages.

EAHIL Social Netvibes, http://www.netvibes.com/eahil

To know more about Netvibes, have a look at this Tour: http://tour.netvibes.com/overview.php

The use for Libraries and users:

• Show your content in a different way, with lot of possibilities to share & communicate. Netvibes gives you control over what you publish
  
• Use Public pages for Social Media Monitoring
  • University Medical Center Groningen " Social Media Scan"
    http://www.netvibes.com/umcg
  • http://www.netvibes.com/umcn

 Discovery Exercise:

• If you already have created Netvibes account, please go to http://www.netvibes.com/ and login.
• If you do NOT have an Netvibes Account yet, please make one on the spot (Go To http://www.netvibes.com/#signup to signup. You will need access to a web-based email account. You can use a gmail account for that.)
• After login in go to: Show Settings and change your :
• General Settings
• Also explore settings for Region & Languages
• Choose a new Theme to your page and
• Choose a new Backgroup for your Personal Start Page.
• Adjust Setting, REGION & Languages
• Check out the : Add Content option in the left upper corner.
• Add the RSS feed from the blog to your start page
• search medical widgets,pubmed search engines, medical feeds
• find & use feeds from Med Journals
• Add a rss feed from a Pubmed Search
• Public pages for medical library use, Share from NBAMHI,
• Create a Universe/Public page for YOUR Library
• Try the html widget to embed a documents or picture in your Netvibes
• Try the html editor widget to create your own (or others) html content.
  You can even add web content by just copy&paste parts of webpages into this widget (and adjust it afterwards.)

Use for or by Medical Libraries (examples):

• MyTerrko , the use of personal customizable pages for library users
• ZB MED Cologne, Germany
• Shrewsbury and Telford Health Libraries: http://www.netvibes.com/sathlibraries
• Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen: http://www.netvibes.com/cmb
• ScHARR Portal: http://www.netvibes.com/scharr#Homepage
• Medical Apps: http://www.netvibes.com/medlibmob or http://www.netvibes.com/medicalapps