Week 5 - Tagging, Taxonomies and Twitter

Del.icio.us, social caos being made orderly?? Before today I have never used it, I have looked very very briefly. After watching the Common craft show tutorial I was excited about making the caos more clear. Looking around the Delicious site, I can see it being a valuable tool for Patrons of libraries who access the web a lot in their library. This would make it such an easy way to find your bookmarks and have them tagged under topic making them easier to find. For purposes of research or study there would be no need getting frustrated because you can't find the URL you bookmarked at home because you can easily access it from wherever you are. It is also valuable that you are able to access other users bookmarks, they may have something quite useful that you haven't found yourself. If libraries were to use this system as part of their work environment bookmarks and tagging could be made for sites relevant to their users of the library or to the Library staff.

This Link has some interesting library links that other users have bookmarked that may be interesting and are an example of what libraries can use this website for.

Finally something...also know as web 2.0 task., has got me to sign up to
I have been thinking about it just to have a look but have put it up.....if you want to find me I am Allisonjw.

I knew that Kelli was on there so went searching for her first. I found the process of looking for a user quite straightforward in the form of a search interface. I had a giggle at some of her twittering and enjoyed reading. I added her to my list to follow. I continued this process with a couple of people I thought I may find on Twitter.

I am struggling to find use for twitter in Libraries, I can see that it could be used between maybe the Librarian and library users, in particular young adults or possibly between staff. I asked my husband and he thought that Research assistance could use it as it can be a thought provoking tool.......I'm still open to suggestion.

Overall week 5 has proved to be interesting and getting me to try something new that I may have otherwise not look at so closely.