First things first, please excuse the terrible title of this post - it's Friday afternoon and my brain can't do any better than this!
This week's task of exploring the world of social bookmarking was completely new to me and I wasn't sure what to expect when it came to how it worked and it's potential usefulness to me. However, my initial reservations soon disappeared as I set up my Delicious page and began to appreciate the value of social bookmarking services.
I had no trouble with setting up my Delicious account as it all seemed fairly intuitive and soon set about bookmarking and tagging some of the websites I regularly look at like the news (international and local) the weather, the 23 Things Oxford page and PubMed. I also obediently bookmarked this blog and tagged it 'Ox23' so that anybody who's interested/participating in the '23 Things Oxford' programme can find it easily.
As far as exploring networks went, I had a look at the History Faculty Library's and Phil Bradley's Delicious pages and added them to my network, as well as subscribing to Phil Bradley's page by RSS feed.
I can see myself continuing to use Delicious in the future because of the convenience of being able to access my bookmarks wherever I happen to find myself. I think that tagging is also a great idea because of the way in which it makes relevant information much easier to find and I like the idea of networks and people collaborating all around the world. The word 'folksonomy' is pretty cool too!
This week's task of exploring the world of social bookmarking was completely new to me and I wasn't sure what to expect when it came to how it worked and it's potential usefulness to me. However, my initial reservations soon disappeared as I set up my Delicious page and began to appreciate the value of social bookmarking services.
I had no trouble with setting up my Delicious account as it all seemed fairly intuitive and soon set about bookmarking and tagging some of the websites I regularly look at like the news (international and local) the weather, the 23 Things Oxford page and PubMed. I also obediently bookmarked this blog and tagged it 'Ox23' so that anybody who's interested/participating in the '23 Things Oxford' programme can find it easily.
As far as exploring networks went, I had a look at the History Faculty Library's and Phil Bradley's Delicious pages and added them to my network, as well as subscribing to Phil Bradley's page by RSS feed.
I can see myself continuing to use Delicious in the future because of the convenience of being able to access my bookmarks wherever I happen to find myself. I think that tagging is also a great idea because of the way in which it makes relevant information much easier to find and I like the idea of networks and people collaborating all around the world. The word 'folksonomy' is pretty cool too!
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