Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 Overview

Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us

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What is del.icio.us?

• http://del.icio.us
• A place to store links to all your favorite websites
• Online and accessible from any internet connected computer
• You can access your bookmarks whereever you go
• You can add to your account from anywhere
• Add tags to describe and organize your bookmarks
• Search for web sites bookmarked by others
• Develop a network of people with useful bookmarks.

How libraries are using del.icio.us

• San Mateo Library Links arranged by Dewey numbers - uses del.icio.us bundles feature.

• Hunter Lane (?)  School delicious account
• Cubberley Education Library

  Blog with a del.icio.us link cloud

• Thunder Bay PL  

  They use tag cloud and tag list to lead patrons to their del.icio.us bookmarks. These ‘badges’ can be created with code from your del.icio.us account.

• U of Michigan Avian Influenza

  Links to lists of resources in del.icio.us

• UTC Lupton Library

  Links incorporated into web page.

• What I Learned Today (blog)

  Many blogs include their recent bookmarks on the sidebar of their blog or incorporate them into their blog entries.

• NYS Summer Reading Program 

  Rather than keeping a long page of links up to date, new sites and resources are added to a del.icio.us account and they appear on this page automatically.

• Polly’s sample page

  Multiple tags fed into a web page

• International Relations sample page  Example with feeds from a variety of sources on a library web page (Meredith Farkas, Norwich University)
• del.icio.us Libraries  Frequently updated list of libraries using del.icio.us.

More to explore

• Bundles: Explore the options for bundling your tags. This option is on the Settings page (and at the bottom of your list of tags). Bundling lets you group related tags together in a group, making it much easier to navigate your tags when you list of tags grows. Tags can be part of more than one bundle.
• Build a network: Find other del.icio.us members that are bookmarking on topics you’re interested in. Add them to your network.
• Badges/widgets: If you have a web page, you might want to have a list of your bookmarks appear on it. Go to your Settings page and use the Link Rolls option to create code to add links to your web page.
• RSS magic: If you’re familiar with adding RSS feeds to your web pages, consider how adding RSS feeds for specific del.icio.us tags might be useful. You could create a subject guide that automatically updates itself. Or create a list of resources for a research project. Groups of people could tag items for a project with a unique tag, then use the RSS feed for that tag to gather all the items on one web page.
• Similar tools: Explore furl.com or digg.com. These are other social bookmarking sites. Each has their own twists on saving information. Furl has the benefit of actually saving the content of each web page you bookmark, so you’ll never (theoretically!) lose the content, even if the original page disappears. connotea,org and citeulike.org are similar services oriented towards scientists.

Learn more about social bookmarking & del.icio.us

• del.icio.us Model - ideas for using del.icio.us in libraries
• Social Bookmarking and del.icio.us: a personal and professional productivity tool

  Slideshow on using del.icio.us

• Learning 2.0 & del.icio.us

  Podcast Tutorial on del.icio.us  

• del.icio.us Toolbox 180 Tools & Resources
• Make Your Library del.icio.us

  Podcast and slideshow from the "5 Weeks to a Social Library" class. (Tons of other terrific content here too.)

• Social Bookmarking in Plain English 

  Need to explain del.icio.us in a few minutes? Use this terrific video.

• del.icio.us libraries

  A growing list of libraries using del.icio.us

Live Subject Guide Tests - RSS meets Social Bookmarking meets Wikis

• Sample page - pafa.net  Multiple subject tags fed into a web page.
• Wikispaces - del.icio.us RSS feed to a wiki page Wiki example on wikispaces
• Wikispaces - Mystery Books example  Another wikispaces example - mysteries
• Wikispaces - Biology News Example Another Wikispaces example.  Links to source pages at top. Current headlines listed below.
• PBWiki - Subject Guide test  Doesn't allow direct input of RSS feeds. Need to use a feed to js/html tool like feed2js
• WetPaint - Subject Guide test Allows easy adding of RSS feeds, but limits the # of headlines viewable. Attractive, easy, but not flexible.
• International Relations sample page  Example with feeds from a variety of sources on a library web page (Meredith Farkas, Norwich University)

Example of a del.icio.us "tag cloud"

Click on a keyword or "tag" to see what web sites I've bookmarked on that topic.

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