My last blog post this semester will be a quick summary about Social Bookmarking. I started with the Wikipedia definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking ) : "In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine." Then, early in November, I watched a “how to” video by commoncraft (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU ), and set up my own del.icio.us page. My next challenge, and one I continue to work on, is my tagging system, or folksonomy. I used a couple resources to better understand tags: Guy & Tonkin, 2006 (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html ), and Pandia’s Search Engine News ((http://www.pandia.com/sew/327-social-bookmarking.html ). I also discovered ways to market new sites or products through social bookmarking services, which finds bookmarking sites and certain tags on each, and then targets the users of these for promotion of the marketed site/product. I continue to be amazed at the many new ways Web2.0 is being used, and how savvy web marketers and advertisers use these ways to find potential customers.
Through this blogging exercise, I have explored RSS feeds as well as social bookmarking, in addition to discovering ways blogs can be created and used. These experiential lessons have been very helpful as I increase my web2.0 use and fluency.
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Ellie, I really like your way of blogging and enjoy reading your posts. It is like an autoenthnography to me, depicting how you've acquired the skills of RSS and social bookmarking. And you not only read, but also put what you've read into practice and reflect on such practice. Well, I guess it is the best way to learn some new technology through hands-on experience.
Thanks Patrick- your kind words have helped me through this process!
I would second Patrick. Seeing your process and progress in learning Web2.0. can somehow motivate me. This is a vicarious learning, I guess. Your practice and reflection on the learning was actually help me "observe" your process. That way, I can learn from your experience. Thank you Ellie. Nice blogging with you. :D
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