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Tagging, Social Bookmarking and Social Networks

This course was held on the 6th November 2007 and led by Stephanie Taylor.

Social Computing (or Web 2.0) refers to interactive web services such as wikis and blogs. These were covered by Stephanie in her earlier Social Computing events. Social Computing Two looked at other aspects of this subject:
  • Tagging - the ability of users to add keywords to shared on-line resources.
  • Social Bookmarking - a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages.
  • Social Networks - Building on-line social networks for communities of people. Examples include MySpace and Facebook.

Stephanie introduced the small but keen audience to social networks, social bookmarking and tagging. She presented examples of these and explored how they could be used by libraries and librarians. There was plenty of opportunity to explore these applications at first hand. Staephanie also set four case studies as exercises. These looked at supporting a public library book group, supporting a group of psychiatric nurses, supporting a library enquiry desk and some problems that might arise from use of social computing.

This page can be used by anyone interested in web 2.0/Library 2.0 as a forum for the exchange of ideas and information.
References

FreePint article "Your Online Identity: Key to Marketing and Being Found" By John McBurnie John McBurnie explains how libraries and information professionals can build a unique online identity by deploying the social networking tools that are transforming the way we communicate and interact.


Another interesting reference is What is del.icio.us? What is social bookmarking? on the Artsy Reference Librarian blog.

The search engine website Pandia reviews the Top Ten web tools and Phil Bradley reviews this list and gives his own comments.


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The CILIP Yorkshire & Humberside Branch has set up a group on Facebook.
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Sintocarl Facebook 1 Nov 12 2007, 11:13 AM EST by Sintocarl
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I registered with Facebook to see what it was like and to explore what groups there might be of interest to librarians. If anyone else would like to register please include me as a "friend"!

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