In the past few weeks, we explored one site--Flickr--that allows users to take advantage of tagging. You may have tagged some of your own photos. Searching tags in Flickr or another site that allows tagging lets you find other items with those same tags.
Do some tagging:
You can tag your Blogger posts (Blogger calls them labels), with keywords or phrases. From the Dashboard, go to Edit Posts and choose the post you want to add tags to. Enter the words in the "Labels for this post" box in the lower right. Type in your tags (commas between each word or phase). Click Publish Post to re-publish the post with its labels (tags) to your blog.
About delicious
Delicious, (formerly del.icio.us), is a social bookmarking web service that allows you to bookmark a Web page and add tags to categorize your bookmarks. Tags can be used in delicious to organize your bookmarks--and let others know what you have bookmarked. Learn about tagging on Delicious. If you tag your delicious bookmarks, you can search for them later using the tags.
The service is accessed through a web page and used to store bookmarks in ‘the cloud’ so they will be available to the user anywhere in the world where a computer with Internet service is available. Just login to Delicious and there are your bookmarks all in one place. This is a great time saver if you need to find a site, but can't remember its name. For students, delicious helps them use bookmarks in their research. The bookmarks are available at any computer they use in the library, the lab, or at home.
Many users find that the real power of Delicious is its social networking piece. You can see how other users have tagged similar links. Following their links lets you discover other Web sites that may be of interest to you. You can think of it as peering into the file folders of another user. With this powerful bookmarking tool each of these folders helps to build an expansive knowledge network.
- Take a look around Delicious
- Explore the site options and try clicking on a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by a lot of other users. Can you see the comments they added about this bookmark or the tags that they used to categorize this reference?
- Create your own account in delicious. Note:
- The second step after registering involves adding buttons or "bookmarklets". If you wish to avoid downloading, you can either click on "skip this step" or choose the "other" link under the heading Alternative Buttons. From there you can choose to drag links into your toolbar instead of downloading the add-on for Internet Explorer or FireFox. Click here to learn more about available bookmarking tools.
- In the third step you can select "import favorites"; this will allow delicious to copy your current favorites from your current web browser. The "skip this step" button is available here as well.
- All bookmarks on delicious are by default available to everyone. It is possible to make a bookmark private but by default bookmarks are public.
- Go to the Just For Fun heading below and click the link to add a bookmark to this page.
- Add at least one other bookmark and make sure you add at least one tag
Just For Fun
Bookmark this on Delicious Clicking this link allows you to add this lesson to your delicious account. Want to add this to your own blog? Go to http://delicious.com/help/savebuttons to find out how.
Visit the account used by Auraria reference: http:/www.delicious.com/aurariaref
Resources
Some of these are a little outdated as they refer to the site when it was del.icio.us and some of the settings are a little different, however these still have a lot of useful information and are worth a look.
CHALLENGE
Delicious is one of many social bookmarking services. Several of these service, such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Slashdot, allow users to generate content and share and rate articles or web sites. Editors do not decide what information is important, users do. Unlike the past when reference and information staff would scan the headlines in local and national news sources for the latest in breaking news, government reports, or celebrity scandals in an effort to be one jump ahead of library users trying to find behind the headlines information, some librarians are scanning these types of sites instead.
Explore one or more of these sites and blog about your experience:
- How do you think you can use these tools in your library or at home?
- Do these tools seem to be a productivity enhancer or a productivity detractor?
- Have you ever read a story/item as a result of seeing it on one of these sites?
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