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Back in June many of you entered our competition to win an OpenLearn Flash memory stick. This month we're giving you another chance to win one and we have 10 to give away.

Congratulations to last month's winners, all of whom have now been notified. Read our terms and conditions for this competition.

RSS allows you to keep up to date with the latest content without the need to visit the OpenLearn website. You can select the content you want to read and have it delivered to your desktop. All OpenLearn study materials are now available as RSS feeds, allowing you to choose what content you see and how.

For more information on using OpenLearn RSS take a look at our Flash movie on RSS.

Take a quick look through the LearningSpace where you will see the orange RSS icon next to content you can subscribe to.

We have just launched free online video conferencing into the LearningSpace. Anyone can book some time to have an online meeting or 'webinar'. Invite others studying the same unit as you by using the unit forum to advertise your meeting or organise your existing study group to meet online. All you need is a webcam - and even without one you can still text chat and use a microphone to speak to others.

Find out more about organising a FlashMeeting in our QuickStart Guide .

You say...

Every month we highlight some of our favourite extracts from the Learning Journal entries many learners choose to share openly with the world. Alan K Farrar has been studying Evolution and has got so into knowledge mapping he is dreaming about it at night. It's amazing to see how many of you claim to like Pain and Aspirin and Death and Dying. We'd worry if they weren't titles for our study units! Maritess Adaon has joined us from the Philippines and is using our Study Skills unit on What is Good Writing? to help her improve her English writing skills. And Deborah Whiteley is kickstarting her career in accountancy using OpenLearn to prepare for a short course at the Open University. Good luck! Read some of the Learning Journal entries other learners are choosing to share.*

If you want to know more about keeping a Learning Journal take a look at the How To Guide and demonstration video on the Getting Started page or share your thoughts and connect with others in the discussion forums.

Spotlight on... myLearningSpace

We've added some new features to OpenLearn to allow you to make it your own. myLearningSpace allows registered users to have a personal homepage, providing them with a list of the courses they're enrolled in, along with information about recent changes within those courses (such as new forum posts). Among other things, users can customise the page to show or hide different blocks of information relevant to their needs and can choose to show a list of recent site visitors enabling them to connect easily with other learners who are interested in similar study areas.

* Don't forget, to contribute to discussion forums and Learning Journals registered users will need to be logged in. Non-registered users will need to register. Registration is completely free and makes no future requirements of you. You can find out more information on the Getting Started page.