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Social Bookmarking

1. What is it & why it can be useful

a. Exercise: trainees are invited to share their way of working with the bookmarks. They are also invited to brainstorm on limitations of traditional bookmarking system. 10 mins

b. Exercise: trainer asks if there are students aware of SB, and invites them to explain the concept to the group. 5 mins

c. Problems and limitations of traditional bookmarking (example of alternative route via goggle firefox bookmark replication)

d. Wikipedia definition:

In a Social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources, which they find useful. Often, these lists are publicly accessible, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some social bookmarking systems allow for privacy on a per-bookmark basis. They also categorize their resources by the use of informally assigned, user-defined keywords or tags (see folksonomy). Most social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given "tags", and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them. Many social bookmarking services also have implemented algorithms to draw inferences from the tag keywords that are assigned to resources by examining the clustering of particular keywords, and the relation of keywords to one another.

2. What is the advantage in the development context (librarian, researcher, practitioner looking for and organising information)

a. Exercise: trainees are invited to brainstorm on how they use the information for development goals 15 mins

2. How

a. Tagging

i. What is it (folksonomy vs. taxonomy – (is this user-friendly terminology?????))

ii. Why is it important in development world

iii. Limitations

iv. How to use it – concrete examples

b. Networking

i. “Overlap of tags” == > discover like-minded users

ii. exchange bookmarks (via “save” function) & subscribe to tags / users (e-mail as well)

iii. promote tags in your network

c. Syndicating

i. All these tools give opportunity to syndicate (explain syndications briefly)

ii. RSS output (make reference to RSS/newsreader module)

iii. Can be imported into: newsreaders, e-mails, other websites

3. What can users do with it / functionalities?

a. URL harvesting

i. Store your records in an online archive, according to your own categories

ii. Better record retrival (e.g IE does not allow for search in bookmarks + multiple tags for information record)

iii. Exercise: trainees create their own del.icio.us page and add few resources on their own

b. World-wide accessibility

i. Can access material workdwide, even without your PC/laptop

c. Information / resource sharing (e-mail)

d. group learning / knowledge sharing and management

e. finding out about peers / networks / researchers

f. Promoting results of our research / promote our content

g. can be integrated into content-management system (see Euforic)

4. Strategic use & examples / case studies

a. Sharing and coordinating tags / how to work collaboratively

b. Producing joint content

5. Pros and Cons

6. Overview of key tools (maybe matrix with key functionalities???)

7. Q&A (?)

8. Additional Resources

* Overview of Social bookmarking concept and tools: http://www.consultantcommons.org/node/239

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