Welcome to Week 3 of your quest!
What is a Tag?
A 'Tag' is an informal subject heading you can add to a blog post, bookmark, wiki page or uploaded photograph to categorise and find the item later. 'Social Bookmarking' is like adding tags to the saved bookmarks in your college Favourites Menu, but your Favoutites list is hosted by an online service. The difference is you can access the list from any computer anywhere in the world and share your lists of chosen sites/files with anyone. Other users also get the chance to rate your site choice, either by selecting to save that site themsleves on their own list or by actually commenting on the site. Examples include Delicious, Stumbleupon, Flickr or Photobucket.
The site we've chosen to use to help you learn about tagging and social bookmarking is delicious.* This is the same service that the Llandrillo_Library account uses. Why not check it out to get more of an idea of what you can achieve with a del.icio.us account.
History: Launched late 2003, pioneered tagging and coined the term ‘social bookmarking’
Example of: social book-marking and networking
Number of users: March 2007 – over 2 millions accounts registered
Why use: Free, easy to set up and download buttons, can add into most major web2.0 apps
Good for: tagging, categorizing, sharing, importing bookmark lists, networking, rating
Bad For: no controlled vocabulary, no standard structure, buttons hidden on college PCs
Getting Started:
- To set up your account go tohttp://delicious.com and click on >>Get Started<< or Register .
- Register a delicious account name and password
- 'Tag' a site and add it to your account
- Import your saved bookmarks from your home or work computer to delicious
Don't forget to :
- Record your username and password. You need these each time you want to add anything to delicious.
- Write a post on your blog recording this week's achievements!
If you get stuck reply to the Quest Post to get help from other participants or see the guides on the Library Moodle
*the use of delicious.com is only a suggestion. Feel free to use another provider of your choice like digg.com or stumbleupon.com.
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