Thursday, April 3, 2008

Week 4: Social Bookmarking

I found delicious a wonderful tool to access your bookmarked sites from anywhere in the world as long as you have a computer with internet access. My bookmarks in the browsers are getting too long so delicious will solve the problem of knowing what I have bookmarked. I use both IE and Firefox.

The SJLibraryLearning2 site is a wealth of information. I found several excellent sites that I bookmarked in my delicious account. I noticed that IE displays the tags of SJLibraryLearning2 site in a more organized way than Mozilla and I am not sure why maybe it is the font size.

Tags are a very organized way to keep track of your bookmarks to find them right away, and bundle tags can save lots of time when looking for the bookmarks.

I bookmarked Bloglines and I was surprised to find out that 7,739 people have done the same!!

I believe delicious has the potential to create a social collaboration among librarians and researches to exchange information in a very timely manner.

This was a great lesson--I have heard of delicious before but never tried it. CiteUlike and Connotea are also a wonderful collaboration tool among researchers.

I am learning so much. Thank you very much for these valuable lessons. Now I believe our jobs as librarians is to disseminate this information to our users.

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