Week 4 Social Bookmarking

I have used del.icio.us for a while. I like how easy it is to use. I work from two work stations, and can never remember what I saved on this one or that one. Del.icio.us lets me move from station to station and return to the site I need to get to.

I can however see saving sooooo very many sites that it might be sort of useless. I need to work on better tags.

It is a good way to see what other people think is important enough to tag.

For research it would be useful to tag all websites for a single cooperative project.

Will attach my del.icio.us site

Week 3 - Facebook & LinkedIn

Oh I just love LinkedIn. Very professional. Has many uses for library contacts etc. Facebook is fun and is a good place to enter your library catalog...That was the coolest thing. And the PubMed search link was awesome. We will get our catalog up this summer...cant have UAB having all the fun. Medical Students contact each other on Facebook. Many of our students have "friended" us, I think we might add our facebook pages to the orientation information.

Im not sure Im ready for MySpace. My kids would hate me, they did come around to me on Facebook though!

Privacy? Whats that in social networking?

Week 2 add

A bit more time spent on these new social networking skills. Still hope it will be useful. I am trying to think of very creative ways to use them in the library.

Blog versus wiki....well blog is more personal (mine) and wiki for more outsiders. Im worried I will give the wrong answer!

Week 2: Wikis

Adding links to my blog was a bit difficult. Linked my wiki. I hope it will be useful in my teaching.

Week 1 Blogs & RSS

Blog and RSS created. I still think blogging is just another email, but will be very pleased when it turns out to be something else. The RSS was pretty neat especially the PubMed search. That should be useful in library functions (probably for the young interested researcher types!)


I still have trouble moving around in the RSS and some of my feeds dont show up in my folders on the left. (using google reader) I do think Im moving closer to a 2.0 brain!