Week Four

Ahhh, rain and sunshine, in just the right amounts. This week we attempted del.icio.us and tagging. Quite fun actually, once we realized it wasn't something yummy to eat. del.icio.us is a wonderful source, especially if your hard drive crashes because you won't lose your bookmarks. Also, one can access the bookmarks from any computer, not necessarily the one in which all of the bookmarks are saved under favorites, making them more accessible day or night, work, home or on vacation.

Del.icio.us isn't only just an easy way to create bookmarks but a great way to save more permanently bookmarks. It also is a helpful tool in discovering new favorites or bookmarks through the tags.

Besides easy access, finding undiscovered websites through additonal tags, this could be useful in sorting my own favorites. Of course it might be helpful to have an authority control list so I am not giving some things one name and other things different names in which they really should have the same name to make it easy to find.

The most useful thing learned is that bookmarks can be portable and accessed anywhere.

It could be useful in grouping like things together for patrons and for patrons to add to the web of information. If someone wanted a place to search for authors or a list of good books for children, one could create a starting place and new ones could be added or found by anyone through the tags. When developing an Internet web page for an organization, one tries to categorize like things together, assuming how a person might look for them but the assumption might be wrong and the information goes unnoticed and unused.

This could be useful as an in-house resource in which staff could add useful information for each other too.