Remember clippings folders and vertical reference? Welcome to the social web version of this tried and true library resource. Social bookmarking sites are web-based ways to collect and share your website bookmarks or favorites. You can access your bookmarks from any computer with an internet connection, and tags and multimedia options make it easy to search for and share items of interest.
Consider all the time you take to find the best reference sites for your most-frequently-asked questions, or your most frequent patrons. Imagine being able to put all of those sites in one place, tagged with subject terms and descriptors, and then publish the link to your library website or blog. Different classes or subject specialties each get a tag page or feed, and the whole collection is searchable and instantly updateable. Neat, huh?
The most well-known social bookmarking site is Delicious (formerly "del.icio.us"), but Furl, Ma.gnolia and CiteULike are also widely used.
Clipmarks takes things to a finer level of detail by letting you clip just the piece of a site you like and share it via a feed or a blog post. Check out the demo video to see it in action.
Library Journal recently featured an article on social bookmarking, and a Stanford-based research team investigated whether social bookmarking improves web search. To see how libraries are using social bookmarking, visit the LibSuccess wiki; Wikipedia's list of social bookmarking sites offers other choices to explore.
Discovery Activity:
Using Delicious or one of the other bookmarking sites, run a few searches on topics of interest to you. Share a link to both the bookmarking site page and a page or two that you find via the site.
If you'd like, Go the Extra Mile and set up an account of your own. Share the link with us in a post, and give us a few words on the topic you chose.
Housekeeping note: As the class winds down, I'll be asking you to create fewer new accounts and do more exploring and sharing of your discoveries.
With that in mind, let's move on to Thing 20: Can I Ask You a Question?
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Thing 17.2: Harvesting the Bounty...
As you've all been exploring and playing with social web tools, you've been discovering and sharing things in your posts. I'd like to display some of the bounty of this harvest here in our ".2" Thing. In no particular order, here we go:
TripAdvisor review of Gino's East from Thunder and Consolation
Lonely Planet's podcast list, courtesy Carin
The UMass Lowell Sunrise Radio podcasts from Joanne G
Deutsche Welle's German-language podcasts from Amanda
The No Show archives, featuring Steve Post, courtesy Beatrice
Nancy V introduced us to Peerflix, a neat combination of LibraryThing and BookMooch (a book swapping site), but for DVDs
From Mary Librarian, we have two more media cataloging and sharing sites: lib.rario.us and LitLovers
New items RSS feeds from MIT Libraries, an awesome illustration of 2.0 in action from Saraphine
With only a day left to the election, a quick browse through 538 might be a good way to pass some nerve-wracking hours. Thanks, Dave G!
Susan V gives us another spot to indulge ourselves: LuckyScent, an online perfumerie. I note the Hello Kitty fragrance with glee.
Five Limes is a reviewing site for sustainable living choices, from Ms. ReadAlot
Joanne L showcased Stephen Colbert on Libraries
Karrie highlighted podcasts for Spanish lessons, a resource I'll be putting to use soon
B's Grrrl gives us CouchSurfing.com to facilitate community-based travel
Need a good laugh? Try Comedy Central's random joke generator, courtesy Chris N
Also on the language-learning tack, Olga offers us Freelanguage -- language-learning materials from around the globe
Lauren points out one of my favorite webcomics: Unshelved
New England Arts points us to Dilettante Music, a community for classical music lovers of all stripes
For a taste of Chicago Public Radio, check out This American Life, from Millie G
Clayton points out that the Queens Library is using AquaBrowser with its OPAC to give their patrons a different way to search for materials
Librarians to the Rescue!, courtesy of Pia
And, finally, StayingWithIt brings us a Slideshare presentation on revaluing your time
Thank you for sharing, everyone. As a few of you have pointed out in your posts, one of the primary goals of all of this user-created content is to share neat stuff with everyone you know.
Discovery Activity:
Follow one of the links above and write a post about what you find there.
That's it for this week. Stay tuned for next week's continued focus on collaboration with Thing 18: Vini Vidi Wiki?
TripAdvisor review of Gino's East from Thunder and Consolation
Lonely Planet's podcast list, courtesy Carin
The UMass Lowell Sunrise Radio podcasts from Joanne G
Deutsche Welle's German-language podcasts from Amanda
The No Show archives, featuring Steve Post, courtesy Beatrice
Nancy V introduced us to Peerflix, a neat combination of LibraryThing and BookMooch (a book swapping site), but for DVDs
From Mary Librarian, we have two more media cataloging and sharing sites: lib.rario.us and LitLovers
New items RSS feeds from MIT Libraries, an awesome illustration of 2.0 in action from Saraphine
With only a day left to the election, a quick browse through 538 might be a good way to pass some nerve-wracking hours. Thanks, Dave G!
Susan V gives us another spot to indulge ourselves: LuckyScent, an online perfumerie. I note the Hello Kitty fragrance with glee.
Five Limes is a reviewing site for sustainable living choices, from Ms. ReadAlot
Joanne L showcased Stephen Colbert on Libraries
Karrie highlighted podcasts for Spanish lessons, a resource I'll be putting to use soon
B's Grrrl gives us CouchSurfing.com to facilitate community-based travel
Need a good laugh? Try Comedy Central's random joke generator, courtesy Chris N
Also on the language-learning tack, Olga offers us Freelanguage -- language-learning materials from around the globe
Lauren points out one of my favorite webcomics: Unshelved
New England Arts points us to Dilettante Music, a community for classical music lovers of all stripes
For a taste of Chicago Public Radio, check out This American Life, from Millie G
Clayton points out that the Queens Library is using AquaBrowser with its OPAC to give their patrons a different way to search for materials
Librarians to the Rescue!, courtesy of Pia
And, finally, StayingWithIt brings us a Slideshare presentation on revaluing your time
Thank you for sharing, everyone. As a few of you have pointed out in your posts, one of the primary goals of all of this user-created content is to share neat stuff with everyone you know.
Discovery Activity:
Follow one of the links above and write a post about what you find there.
That's it for this week. Stay tuned for next week's continued focus on collaboration with Thing 18: Vini Vidi Wiki?
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Thing 8: Of Dates and Lists
In this Thing, we're going to take a look at some fun and functional tools for keeping track of your life online.
Another of Google's many services is Google Calendar. From doctors' appointments to class assignments, Calendar lets you update your schedule from any internet connection. Adding and changing events is as easy as clicking and typing, and you can set reminders to poke you, via a pop-up window or email.
If you choose to, you can share your calendar with friends, family or anyone else who needs to see what you're up to. Depending on what you're using your calendar for, you can make it public to the general world, or invite only a few select people to view it. Many organizations include a calendar in their website to keep customers or members current on events and schedule changes; clicking on the event title in the calendar brings you additional information, directions, contact info and more.
Discovery Activity:
Set up a Google Calendar and share it with me. Just as you did with Google Reader in Thing 7, you'll find the link to the Calendar service in the upper left corner of your Gmail page. Click on the link, fill in the appropriate information and you're set.
Once you've got a few things scheduled, click on the Settings link under the "My Calendar" box. In the list that comes up, you'll see a link to "Share this Calendar" next. Click on that and share your calendar with "boston26dot2 @ gmail. com".
Please note that the goal here is to learn to use this tool. For your calendar entries, feel free to use made-up events, national holidays, celebrity birthdays or the storytime schedule at your library. Just something to practice with.
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Shifting from managing time to managing tasks, Remember the Milk, Todoist and Toodledo are three tools to help keep your to-do lists organized and available wherever you're online. Depending on which service you use, you can integrate your task manager with your calendar and email to create a personalized complete time management system. Toodledo has thoughtfully provided us with a comparison of some popular tools.
Going one step further, 43 Things, the 1001 Day Project and similar sites take your to-do list into the social web. Rather than a simple checklist of tasks, these sites encourage you to think of long-term or life-time goals. Then, they take that simple list and add the elements of a social network to it, providing you with a virtual community of support, advice and encouragement. Other members of the network cheer you on and you can do the same for them.
There are many other tools out there to improve your efficiency and organization on the web. LifeHacker and 43 Folders are two sites that showcase the newest resources and offer tips and tricks for streamlining your life.
If you'd like to Go the Extra Mile, consider signing up for one of these services and tell us which you chose and why in a blog post.
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This is one of our two-Thing weeks, and you've got a little time to catch up and play with what you've discovered so far. Next Monday, we'll get away from all the text and start looking at some pictures with Thing 9: My Friend Flickr.
Housekeeping note: Due to the Jewish holiday and the long weekend, I won't be online as much this coming week as I normally am. Keep emailing me questions and concerns, but understand that I'll be slower to respond than usual. Thank you, and enjoy!
Another of Google's many services is Google Calendar. From doctors' appointments to class assignments, Calendar lets you update your schedule from any internet connection. Adding and changing events is as easy as clicking and typing, and you can set reminders to poke you, via a pop-up window or email.
If you choose to, you can share your calendar with friends, family or anyone else who needs to see what you're up to. Depending on what you're using your calendar for, you can make it public to the general world, or invite only a few select people to view it. Many organizations include a calendar in their website to keep customers or members current on events and schedule changes; clicking on the event title in the calendar brings you additional information, directions, contact info and more.
Discovery Activity:
Set up a Google Calendar and share it with me. Just as you did with Google Reader in Thing 7, you'll find the link to the Calendar service in the upper left corner of your Gmail page. Click on the link, fill in the appropriate information and you're set.
Once you've got a few things scheduled, click on the Settings link under the "My Calendar" box. In the list that comes up, you'll see a link to "Share this Calendar" next. Click on that and share your calendar with "boston26dot2 @ gmail. com".
Please note that the goal here is to learn to use this tool. For your calendar entries, feel free to use made-up events, national holidays, celebrity birthdays or the storytime schedule at your library. Just something to practice with.
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Shifting from managing time to managing tasks, Remember the Milk, Todoist and Toodledo are three tools to help keep your to-do lists organized and available wherever you're online. Depending on which service you use, you can integrate your task manager with your calendar and email to create a personalized complete time management system. Toodledo has thoughtfully provided us with a comparison of some popular tools.
Going one step further, 43 Things, the 1001 Day Project and similar sites take your to-do list into the social web. Rather than a simple checklist of tasks, these sites encourage you to think of long-term or life-time goals. Then, they take that simple list and add the elements of a social network to it, providing you with a virtual community of support, advice and encouragement. Other members of the network cheer you on and you can do the same for them.
There are many other tools out there to improve your efficiency and organization on the web. LifeHacker and 43 Folders are two sites that showcase the newest resources and offer tips and tricks for streamlining your life.
If you'd like to Go the Extra Mile, consider signing up for one of these services and tell us which you chose and why in a blog post.
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This is one of our two-Thing weeks, and you've got a little time to catch up and play with what you've discovered so far. Next Monday, we'll get away from all the text and start looking at some pictures with Thing 9: My Friend Flickr.
Housekeeping note: Due to the Jewish holiday and the long weekend, I won't be online as much this coming week as I normally am. Keep emailing me questions and concerns, but understand that I'll be slower to respond than usual. Thank you, and enjoy!
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