I explored Technorati, including running searches for topics of interest, following tags, and I even claimed this blog. But frankly, I just don't see how I would really use it.
I can see how it could be a useful tool, but mostly for those that are either into blogging as a hobby or use it as an aspect of their job (for example, those in the media or larger institution libraries that might write and monitor others' blog entries, or for monitoring our blog participation in Vermont's 23 Things!).
For my own personal and job related purposes, I think I'll stick to my RSS feeds.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Social Bookmarking
In my experience social bookmarking tools like de.licio.us, are very helpful since they allow you to access (and share with others) the sites you'd mark as "favorites" but is accessible from any computer.
Although I played around with de.licio.us for this exercise, my favorite bookmarking site is furl. I like furl because I think the format looks cleaner than delicious, and because it offers really handy tools such as: allowing you to designate your links private, a feature to import sites from your computer's bookmarks, and allows you to export your archive (you can select which ones by choosing designated tags) into XML, a zipped file, or a a hyper-linked list. It will also create citations of your archive according to whichever format you want (MLA, APA etc.)
Libraries can take advantage of social bookmarking sites by sharing with their patrons useful quality sites.
This type of sharing resources also has great potential for research assistance since you can aggregate quality websites as subject guides, writing guides, or any other information rich resources.
The del.icio.us blog has written up ways in which teachers and librarians are using social bookmarks.
Although I played around with de.licio.us for this exercise, my favorite bookmarking site is furl. I like furl because I think the format looks cleaner than delicious, and because it offers really handy tools such as: allowing you to designate your links private, a feature to import sites from your computer's bookmarks, and allows you to export your archive (you can select which ones by choosing designated tags) into XML, a zipped file, or a a hyper-linked list. It will also create citations of your archive according to whichever format you want (MLA, APA etc.)
Libraries can take advantage of social bookmarking sites by sharing with their patrons useful quality sites.
This type of sharing resources also has great potential for research assistance since you can aggregate quality websites as subject guides, writing guides, or any other information rich resources.
The del.icio.us blog has written up ways in which teachers and librarians are using social bookmarks.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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