Enjoyed the Youtube presentation on Social bookmarking. Commoncraft have made all their videos, so far, very informative, succinct and understandable.
I definitely agree with the following comment from our activity:
"The Horizon report (2007) has this to say:
"A little group of Web 2.0 technologies—tagging and folksonomic tools, social bookmarking sites, and sites that make it easy to contribute ideas and content—is placing the power of media creation and distribution firmly into the hands of “the people formerly known as the audience” (Rosen, 2006). No longer satisfied to be consumers of content, today’s audience creates content as well. Producing, commenting, and classifying are just as important as the more passive tasks of searching, reading, watching, and listening.""
Social bookmarking, eg. through del.icio.us, is an obvious development for information sharing and we librarians can only benefit by it. For me, I see it being most helpful at the Information Desk, especially for high school students HSC subject areas, research queries and reader's advisory work. Collaborative online reference is a valuable asset for all librarians, saving time sometimes and adding to the bank of knowledge available. I have bookmarked the National Libraries AskNow.gov.au site. It is great to be able to access their speciality skills and reference tools.
Sutherland Shire LibrarySutherland Shire Libraries tag cloud is helpful but the smaller collection of tags, e.g for AboriginalAustralians was easy to sort through as a cloud but not so easy for the Business cloud. At this stage where there are large numbers of tags I prefer the list. With use I might change my mind.
Cleveland library's clouds were easier to skim over to pick up the highlighted relevant words.
Tag bundles are helpful.Cleveland didn't have them like Sutherland but they had them earlier as a form of contents at the beginning of the site.
A delicious account has been set up and many sites have been bookmarked - I am yet to get the link to the blog successfully acheived. Now (9/11) I think I have set up a link to my blog. Will check on this.
Bookmarking provides a handy, reliable and time saving tool for all librarians, especially reference librarians. We deal in subject content all the time and of course we would want to organise our many websites, share them AND use them anywhere.
Technorati! A good idea to register with them as they track your blog and others. It shows Blogs available accorging to subject matter. There are the latest opinions on websites,articles , conferences etc.Bookmobile search was dissappointing, no difference in the search results, but it was not a phrase so tried Africa bookmobiles - All 5,Exact 0. Whist searching round I found a guest blog by the author of The Camel Bookmobile, a book I have in my possession to read and enjoy asap.
Looking at library blogs I found an IT site - Infotoday Blog with a link to Marketing Library Services. I hope to follow this up another time. Often while searching one tag you come across many useful yet unrelated sites. A pleasant surprise!
nswpln2008 search in keyword and advanced search provided nothing so triedsearch in tags only of blogs with any authority in English.Found 2 - Lib 2.0 blogs. One I have bookmarked to del.icio.us for its Books for blokes focus. This link / contact my be handy for our Blokes@your library month.
I found photos of nswpln2008 libraries and activities, which give ideas for the future.
The Library Thing seems a very helpful resource for any readers advice in the library. I've joined up/created an account and explored the site, taking the Library Thing tour. I went to the Learning 2.0 account and saw how you can create your own catalogue of titles/authors. I hope to add a widget to my blog later.
I liked exploring Zeitgeist, especially for readers advisory work.
Was this originally an American site? I feel it is, so would be aware naturally there could be a bias from the earlier contributors.
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