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5. Learn about tagging and discover Delicious (a social bookmaking site)
Estimate of time: 1 hour
Overview
Have you ever been away from your computer and needed to access a site that is in your Firefox Bookmarks or Internet Explorer Favorites? Rather than having those listings be tied to one computer, why not keep them all in one place online? You'll never have to go searching for the web address for your favorite sites again.
Delicious is one example of a Social Bookmarking site. In addition to the convenience of storing your bookmarks, it allows you to leverage the power of a social network for discovering other great sites, and also allows you to organize them all using tags.
Benefits
- Never be tied to one computer or browser anymore! Store your favorite sites online
- Find others that have common interests and review the sites they have saved (you may just find a few that interest you that you have missed)
- Organize and discover new sites based on the tags that you and others have chosen to describe sites
Perspectives
- View the short (00:03:25) overview video "Social Bookmarking in Plain English
" created by CommonCraft - Read the "Social Bookmarking" entry on Wikipedia for some more background on the subject and history of social bookmarking
- Watch a longer introductory tutorial, either here (TechBites 00:09:53) or here (00:07:42)
- For a longer discussion and review of multiple tools, read this article from D-lib magazine
Discovery
- Start by browsing to Delicious
- In the upper right hand corner, try typing something in the search box. For instance, try "Special Libraries Association" or "Library 2.0" and click "Search."
- Look at one of the results. The title is a link to the website that is bookmarked. After the title, there is a link that allows you to 'Save this' in your personal bookmarks. At the end of each record is a link that says "Saved by XX people." Click this link to see who else has bookmarked the site. In general, the higher the number of people who have saved a link is an indicator of a site's usefulness and relevance related to particular topic.
- After clicking the "Saved by" link, you will be looking at a list of users that have saved it, along with any notes they have written about the site in question. On the right side of the screen is a list of users that have bookmarked the site along with the link to the specific tags that describe similar sites in their collection. Click one of these tags to find other sites a person has decided are similar in scope.
- Go back to the search box and try a few different searches. Explore the vast array of pages linked through del.icio.us.
Reflections: Localize your learnings
- Blog your reactions to your time spent exploring this social bookmarking site.
- Do you think that using tags is a good way to organize your bookmarks?
- Were you able to find sites which you were previously unaware of through delicious?
- What do you think is the biggest advantage/disadvantage of using delicious?
- Do you think you will be able to use this in your professional setting? Why or why not?
Challenge
In the "Discovery" portion of this module, we explored the "social" aspect of social bookmarking by searching the network of other people's bookmarks. Now it is time to create your own.
- Sign up for an account on Delicious
- Install the browser bookmark extension buttons for easy tagging of sites or viewing your saved favorites. See Delicious Help >> Bookmarking >> select the appropriate extension for Firefox or IE. Check out this link for Safari users!
- Bookmark your blog and add SLA23Things as a tag. If your blog is open, it will appear in our RSS feed on the 23 Things home page and enable us to more easily share our learnings with each other.
- Begin to bookmark other sites of interest. Be sure to remember to use tags to organize them!
6. Blog directories, Folksonomies and Tags, oh my!
Estimate of time: 2 hours
Overview
Now that you've gotten your feet wet in the world of blogging, it's time to learn to find your way around the "blogosphere!" It doesn't take long to go from "gee, this is fun" to "how do I find out who else is blogging and are there blogs in my areas of interest?"
Technorati was one of the first searchable blog directories available online, and it still reigns supreme - providing users with the ability to search blogs. In fact, Technorati was upgraded and revised in October 2009, and the changes made to the site's interface are certainly more user-friendly. You can also "claim" or register your blog through Technorati and other blog services, which will increase your blog's visibility in the blogosphere.
Benefits
Libraries and corporations alike are embedding social technologies into their enterprise systems. Knowing about them will not only help you to provide services to your clients in new and relevant ways, but it will also enable you to provide instruction to them on how to best utilize these tools for their own needs.
Perspectives
- Learn more by reading Wikipedia's entry on Technorati. When you're done reading, go to Technorati and follow the directions below.
Discovery
- On the home page, check out the tabs for "Blog Directory" and "Top 100" to get a feel for the variety of topics included in Technorati's arsenal of information.
- Scroll down and look at the "Hottest blogosphere items" - What are bloggers talking the most about right now?
- Click on some of the top blogs and examine their tags. Note the use of everyday language in the tagging - this is called a "folksonomy."
- On the homepage, try typing "libraries" into the search field. Make sure that you click on the small "Blogs" box to ensure the right results. Note that several thousand blogs relating to libraries appear; while some of these are personal collections, others belong to institutions and organizations.
- Take some time to browse the results of your search. What types of blogs do you see that appeal to you or your library?
- To join Technorati, simply fill out the brief form found by clicking the "Join" link directly to the right of the search box.
Reflections: Localize your learnings
- What value does a tool like Technorati offer your library?
- Does the ability to monitor people's conversations and the tags people are applying to their content offer additional research portals for your products and services?
- How could you incorporate information Technorati offers into the research delivered to your users?
- How would you maintain authority and reliability of information pulled from this resource?
Challenge
There are other blog directories and tools that serve different functions in the blogging world. Try some of these to get an idea of what's out there:
- Spend some time browsing through Yahoo's blog directory. Suggestions: Explore "Blog Directories" and "Collaborative Weblogs."
- Go to Icerocket and click on "Blog Tracker." What benefit does this service provide to bloggers?
- Check out Google's blog directory. Click on the word "Collaborative" and then on "Library and Information Science"
7. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
Estimate of time: 1-2 hours
Overview
As technology continues to evolve to accommodate social collaboration and innovation, the world becomes "flatter" and more connected. You've already touched many of the new ways that people are sharing photos, videos, blogged thoughts and experiences, and connection with their network of contacts. Global companies have invited consumers to collaborate openly in the development of products and marketing organizations are learning to involve consumers in interactive experiences with their brands.
As the world becomes more mobile and less confined to physical spaces and its data more digitized and accessible through technologies that support open access and collaboration, library services will continue to evolve to meet the needs of its consumers. In fact, enabling the sharing of information has been the primary mission of libraries since their inception, so many view this workflow as a natural extension of library services. This new role of libraries reaching their relevant stakeholders by incorporating the continuously evolving world of Web 2.0 is referred to as "Library 2.0."
Benefits
Web 2.0 Technologies aren't going away. They will continue to evolve and bring us new ways of working, reaching out and servicing our clients' needs. Joining the conversation and networking with others in our field about how they are incorporating these capabilities into their work will go a long way toward our continued professional development.
Perspectives
- YouTube video: Building Academic Library 2.0 (Time: 70:37:00)
Discovery
- Read Wikipedia's description of Library 2.0.
- Go to Ning's community space Library 2.0 enthusiasts and browse around to see what librarians are sharing and talking about.
- On Library Journal's website, read about the Library 2.0 Gang and check out other Library 2.0 happenings from Library Journal
Reflections: Localize your learnings
- Blog your thoughts about Library 2.0, Web 2.0 and libraries of the future.
- How do you plan to incorporate Web 2.0 tools and technologies into your products and services?
- How do you maintain high quality products and services if anyone can add content to your resources?
Challenge
- Get involved in the Library 2.0 discussions by joining one of the communities dedicated to this domain listed above.
Comments (19)
Jul 16, 2008
Mimi Calter says:
Before downloading the del.icio.us extension you should know you'll LOSE all you...Before downloading the del.icio.us extension you should know you'll LOSE all your bookmarks when you install it. I found it incredibly frustrating to lose all of my folders, and have nothing to fall back on but a cloud of tags. I understand there are advantages, but my work style is much more in tune with the folder structure. It took painful hours to recontstruct after toying with delicious, and I don't see myself trying it again.
Sep 28, 2008
Karen Huffman says:
On Del.icio.us, you can create "groupings" of tags that can act as folders. Also...On Del.icio.us, you can create "groupings" of tags that can act as folders. Also, a tag can "belong" to one or more folders. What I like best about social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us is that 1) I can easily access my bookmarks anytime, anywhere and 2) I can easily share my tags with others. For example, someone recently asked me about some of my favorite wikis/wiki tools. I could easily just share my ideas with a link to my wiki tag: del.icio.us/khuffman/Wikis. I also like the ability to feed selected tags on sites. We've done this on the SLA Knowledge Management (KM) division site. Whenever anyone finds an article of interest for members, we've ask them to tag it with SLAKM. Visit our SLA KM home page and view our RSS feed on the right sidebar from Del.icio.us.
Aug 06, 2008
Robin Feuerstein says:
I can't figure out how to get the Delicious icon onto my Toolbar. I manage...I can't figure out how to get the Delicious icon onto my Toolbar. I managed to get the Tag icon there, but not the square icon. Well, it is in my favorites, so that's something...but it was frustrating. Perhaps my Internet Explorer is not current enough?
Aug 07, 2008
Karen Huffman says:
See Del.icio.us tools >> select Browser buttons for saving bookmarksSee Del.icio.us tools >> select Browser buttons for saving bookmarks. Easy bookmarking capabilities with Del.icio.us buttons which are available for IE, Firefox, or any browser (probably the most generic/basic of options). The buttons can look different depending on your browser and browser's version. Help documentation offers online help with screen grabs.
Sep 18, 2008
Dianna Roberts says:
Well I've had my first look at Delicious and I can see some usefulness in this. ...Well I've had my first look at Delicious and I can see some usefulness in this. Can it be used on a company intranet or would there be firewall issues? At present I maintain list of recommended links for a number of topics but perhaps Delicious could be used so that company staff could do this work themselves? Interesting. I've also registered myself on Delicious so I am making a little progress, but time will tell...
I later removed myself from Delicious, because as I say in my blog I found it was interfering with my keyboard shortcuts. For instance, every time I tried using ctrl/b to make text bold it seemed to take me into Delicious instead, which I found very annoying. However, I eventually resubscribed because this seemed to be the only way to make my blog appear on 23Things.
I've just spent some time looking at what other libraries are doing with 2.0 and am somewhat overwhelmed and feeling that we are being left behind, technologically speaking. But our close relationships with our clients and the great feedback we get would indicate that we are already meeting their needs. I don't know that we would achieve anything by introducing tools just for the sake of keeping up with new advances but on the other hand I am always looking for ways that we can improve what we do and how we do it so I have taken the big step of signing up for Ning's Library 2.0.
Most of the blogs I've looked at seem to be of personal interest but there must be some out there that reflect the interests of my clients so I'll keep looking.
Sep 02, 2008
Karen Huffman says:
Currently, I think Del.icio.us only has the ability to make your bookmarks publi...Currently, I think Del.icio.us only has the ability to make your bookmarks public or private. There are a handful of corporate social bookmarking applications. For example,
Others may know more applications they might want to include.
Sep 14, 2008
Irene McMorland says:
I chose to add the delicious bookmarklet to my Firefox 3. I didn't have to downl...I chose to add the delicious bookmarklet to my Firefox 3. I didn't have to download and install any extensions, and I haven't lost my bookmarks.
Sep 25, 2008
Edith Thayer says:
I am not particulary impressed with the shared bookmarking feature of delicious....I am not particulary impressed with the shared bookmarking feature of delicious. Many of the bookmarks I found were not for websites but for individual pages. I prefer to use furl to bookmark and tag individual pages or articles. Plus furl has the advantage of saving cached copies. This is not true on delicious. I found pages and articles that were no longer active on delicious. I have used and recommended furl.net for quite awhile.
Nov 13, 2008
Martha K. Reifschneider says:
I found a broken link in this wiki page: in 5. Learning About Tagging ... in the...I found a broken link in this wiki page: in 5. Learning About Tagging ... in the Perspective section, the tag in:
Read a blog post from David Lee King explaining social bookmarking
doesn't work -- the message is that the blog has been removed.
Nov 14, 2008
Rita Reisman says:
I thought I understood the features of Del.icio.us, but after reading some of th...I thought I understood the features of Del.icio.us, but after reading some of the comments prior to mine, I may have to go back and look at it again. I managed to add it to my computer at home with no problems that I've noticed, and like someone said earlier, it seems that a lot of the tags are personal interests and not work related. At least, I haven't found too many that are work related.
I've gotten permission to download Del.icio.us at work, but I'll look at furl first.
I am not sure if I have set up my blog so others can see it, so if someone could check, I'd appreciate it. My blog is SLA's 23 Things (on Blogger.)
As for signing up for some blogs, I'll probably sign up with Ning, but I've found a group that are humorous, and I'm enjoying them a great deal!
Nov 15, 2008
Karen Huffman says:
Permissions in Blogger: To view who can read and/or write to your blog, edit the...Permissions in Blogger: To view who can read and/or write to your blog, edit the Settings >> Permissions. See Blogger's help document "How do I control who can view my blog?" http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42673 .
Linking to Internet sites: Just as we've known for years about Internet content, we are not always guaranteed content will remain online; links may become broken. This happens whether you add a link to an external Web page on your website OR if you bookmark using a tool like Del.icio.us.
Social bookmarking: Personally and professionally, I love Del.icio.us and use my account for many different purposes. I like the ease of creating a "grouping" of documents for presentations, class material, sharing with my network of friends/colleagues, and/or custom, categorized views of content based on my tagging schema. The beauty of Web 2.0 and part of what we are trying to illustrate within 23 Things is that no one tool may work for everyone. Find the ones you like the best; that fit within your lifestyle, work and research habits.
Nov 22, 2008
Deb Hunt says:
Hello, Martha. Thanks for catching the nolonger working link on social bookmarki...Hello, Martha.
Thanks for catching the no-longer working link on social bookmarking (Thing 5). I've removed it.
Deb
Dec 19, 2008
G F Lukos says:
I haven't been very disciplined about sticking with 23 Things, but I have been u...I haven't been very disciplined about sticking with 23 Things, but I have been using Delicious since I started this module way back in August. It is interesting that so many people seem to tag ephemera, e.g., a news item about the latest political scandal, a page that is sure to go off the free web in 7 to 14 days.
It occurred to me the other day that a difference between the "crowd" (as in, "the wisdom of the ...") and librarians is that we tend to look at tagging (and filing and cataloging and all sorts of info management) as something for the long haul. The library customer generally thinks, "Where can I put this or how can I tag this so I can find it -- before I've fogotten that it even exists." Librarians try to make things findable by people who don't know the things exist -- and even long after we cease to exist.
Anyway, I've tagged my project blog. If you have a minute, please visit at http://gerryl13.livejournal.com/. Publicizing it will shame me into keeping with the program.
Dec 19, 2008
Karen Huffman says:
Not sure it matters how many "things" you complete... I believe it's more a matt...Not sure it matters how many "things" you complete... I believe it's more a matter of envisioning the possibilities of current tools and applying your key takeaways to your library!
Jul 16, 2009
Jessica Beauchamp says:
I just finished Thing 5Social Bookmarking. The article on DLib was helpful...I just finished Thing 5-Social Bookmarking. The article on D-Lib was helpful--nice tables comparing different types of social bookmarking sites. Of course this article is now over four years old, and that's an eon in web-years and now Furl is now part of Diigo, but hey, del.icio.us lives on (albeit as delicious.com, which is easier to remember)!
Oh, did I mention that I am loving the 23 Things?!
Oct 05, 2009
Muhammad Asif Munir says:
I wonder if someone can help me in replying the following question: •How do you ...I wonder if someone can help me in replying the following question:
•How do you maintain high quality products and services if anyone can add content to your resources?
Infact, i am stuck at a point (in third week of SLA 23things). I have some idea as far as the reply to above question is concerned but i am unable to explain it or i have not much in mind to blog my reply. My blog is www.muhammadasifmunir.blogspot.com.
After replying/blogging my reply the above question, i can easily proceed to next week. So please help me to continue my learning through SLA 23things.
Oct 05, 2009
Karen Huffman says:
It can be difficult and take additional time that you may not have built into yo...It can be difficult and take additional time that you may not have built into your initial ideas for developing a social networking site. It can also depend on who your "audience" is: B2B, B2C, or some other scenario. I always recommend enforcing people must log in/create an account to contribute. I know with SLA's wikis, Quan Logan and I monitor activity daily to see who is using the site and if we need to take additional action.
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