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I haven't really got time to post a lot on the section Tips and Tricks lately but today I found a nice plug-in that should be of some interest. I still got to create a special page about Slideshare in the YECREA Knowledge base but I will anticipate here and explain shortly what it is about. It is accurately described in Crunchbase :

Following the first effort of Emerging scholar stuff (archive availlable at here) I propose to contribute to YECREA's website by feeding a new category of content: Tips & Tricks. I argue that young scholars are provided nowadays with a huge number of tools and services that might greatly improve their daily tasks but because of the lack of time, most of them don't take the time to discover them. Well, I'll do for you guys ;-). As first input to this new category I propose here a re-publication of one the important posts of ESS blog: "Emerging Scholars need a RSS reader
As scholars use the internet as major (unique?) access tool to information and a means of communication for a significant amount of time, lots of stuff have occurred and help them in their daily activities. The evolution of recent years has increased the number of channels and sources of information and the struggle to manage them has grown more and more. This statement is neither new nor path-breaking but it was the greatest basis of the creation of this blog. Among all stuff suggested here, this one is the most important: emerging scholar need...a feed reader.