Set up an account on the social bookmarking service Delicious - http://delicious.com/
Write a short evaluation (no more than 350 words) of your use of Delicious as a social bookmarking tool - include a critical evaluation of the effectiveness of different features and/or functions, as well as a brief statement on the different ways an information organisation may be able to utilise Delicious to support information services, learning and/or collaboration of users and/or employees.
Through the Inf506 course, I created a Delicious account from which I immensed in the sicial book marking experience. As a student I have used Delicious to keep track of references to literature I have reviewed. I have also used Delicious as a tool in bookmarking and sharing resources with fellow students. Info506 Lecturer provided Delicious links to very relevant resources.
Delicious social tagging when integrated with the library catalogue allows users to share tags on library titles. While the library catalogue functionality provides ability to bookmark searches, the social element of tagable bookmarks is very important as it is easier for others to find and use what other library users have saved as useful resources. (Evans, 2010, p. 43). Educause explain that social bookmarking "opens door to new ways of organizing information and categoring resources and it is a process [that] allows like-minded individuals to find one another and create new communities of users that continue to influence the ongoing evolution of folksonomies and common tags for resources". Tagging: (“Folksonamies”) is also a functionality of the social networking that enables users to collaboratively create and manage tags to annotate and categorize content.
I visited a number of library catalogues and observed the used on social bookmarking on some of the catalogues.
Darien Library - Users can add tags
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