Week 5 - Bookmarking (part 3)

Social Bookmarking

So far, the methods of bookmarking (or creating favourites) is a personal thing – only on the computer you are logged into, or under your NHS ATHENS login. No one else can see them.

Social bookmarking services allow you to save or bookmark your favourite web sites online and to share them with others. Using a Social bookmarking service is like saving favourites to Internet Explorer or any other web browser but with added benefits:

Watch this video to see what is meant by social bookmarking (you'll need your headphones):



Some advantages of social bookmarking

• You can access your bookmarks from any computer or device with an internet connection
• You can share your bookmarks with others (although you can also keep any that you don’t want to share private!)
• You can “tag” bookmarks with relevant keywords to help you (and others) to retrieve them easily.

More about Tagging

Tagging is a facility used by many Web 2.0 services – not just bookmarks. It allows you to associate keywords or phrases with particular items (for example pictures, videos, bookmarks, catalogue records etc) in order to make them easier for you and others to retrieve. You can add as many tags as you like which makes it easy to describe items that cover many different concepts.

It is also possible to use “shared tags”. These are tags used by people who want to share items on a particular topic. To facilitate this, users tag relevant items with an agreed shared tag. For example, to share items with other people participating in the Oxford 23 Things programme, add the tag “ox23”. A search on ox23 will then reveal all the items shared by programme members.

Services

The following services offer Social Bookmarking: Delicious, Diigo, Digg, Connotea(which also works for journal articles) and Stumbleupon. A longer list is available. 

Thing 10 - Delicious

1. Sign up for a Delicious account at http://delicious.com/ This will require you to set up a Yahoo account.
   During the sign up process you will be given the option of downloading the Delicious “bookmarklet”. This is a useful button which sits in the “links” toolbar in Internet Explorer and other internet browsers and allows you to bookmark web sites to Delicious as you browse. Install it if you wish. If you're not sure you can always install it later.
2. If you haven't used Delicious before, take a look through the information in “How do I get started?”
3. Save at least five of your favourite web sites as bookmarks and give each tags.
   
   If you have installed the Delicious "bookmarklet" you can save web sites to Delicious simply by visiting the web site you want to save and clicking in your links toolbar.
   
   If you haven't installed the "bookmarklet", log on to your Delicious account and click "Save New Bookmark" (top right) you will then have to enter the URL of the page you want to save followed by its title and tags.
   
4. Save your blog and/or another web site on the theme of web 2.0 as a bookmark. Add tags and this time also include the “23cammedlib” tag so that other members of the programme can find the bookmark.
   
5. Choose “Tags” / “Explore” and search for the tag “23cammedlib” to view bookmarks shared by other member of the programme. Save any pages that look interesting to your own Delicious account.

Extra Task: optional

a. Read about tagging and folksonomies by searching using the Delicious search. This searches all the public bookmarks saved on Delicious. Save any pages that look interesting to your own Delicious account (don’t forget to share them using the 23cammedlib tag as well as some of your own tags).

b. Send a bookmark to another user by adding their delicious username to the “send” field. (If you don’t know anyone using Delicious you can send a bookmark to me: ilk21).

BLOG:

Take a screenshot of your list of favourites/bookmarks, and load it into your blog. Label it “Thing 10”.

BLOG:

blog about the difference between the 3 ways of creating book marks and what the advantages/disadvantages would be.

Which is your favourite? And why?

Which do you think would be a students favourite? And why?

Week 5 - Bookmarking (part 2)

Thing 9 – NHS MyLibrary bookmarking

Your NHS ATHENS password will also let you personalise the section MyLibrary. This works as an RSS reader as you saw in Thing 7. It also has a bookmarking section, so that wherever you are, you can login to find the links to your favourite/most useful websites.

TASK:

• Go to http://www.library.nhs.uk/mylibrary/ and login with your ATHENS password (login button is on the top right-hand corner)
• Look at the section marked My Links.
  it’s already got some links which NHS Evidence thinks you might find useful, but if you don’t like these links, just tick the box and click “remove selected links”
• Now it’s time for you to add some links which you do find useful.
• Open a new web browser or tab, and find a website you find useful. Copy the address/URL.
• Back in MyLibrary, click “Add Link”, and copy the URL in the appropriate box. (be careful to delete the existing http://)
• Fill in the box marked “Link Title”, and click “add link”
• Add a couple more links to other websites.

Extra Task: optional

Try adding categories to your links.
When you add a new link, complete the “category” box. When you add another new link, perhaps you will want to add the same category tag, or create a new category. It works like a system of folders.

BLOG:

Take a screenshot of your list of favourites/bookmarks, and load it into your blog. Label it “Thing 9”.

If you’ve completed the optional extra task, perhaps add a comment on what you think of this functionality.

Week 5 – Bookmarking (part 1)

Bookmarking your favourite websites is probably familiar to you.

Just to refresh you memory…

Thing 8 - Browser based bookmarks

TASK:

Find a website you like or find useful, and then…..

• Using Internet Explorer
• click the green plus/gold star button to “add to favourites”
• Name the favourite in a way that makes sense to you.
• Click add.
• To view the feed to check if there are any new items for you to read, click the gold star button, and pick the “favourites” column; alternatively, click “favourites” in the top menu bar.
• You have the chance to organise your favourites into folders if you want to. Click “favourites” in the top menu bar, and click “organise your favourites”
• OR
• Using Firefox,
• Click the star in the address bar, this automatically adds it to your list of Bookmarks (notice it changes from clear to gold)
• Click the star again, and you’re given the chance to name the bookmark in a way that makes sense to you, and to put it in a particular folder (depending on the way you’ve organised your bookmarks)
• You also get the chance to tag the bookmark.
• Click done or “remove this bookmark” as appropriate.
• To view your bookmarks, click “bookmarks” and chose “recently bookmarked”

BLOG:
Take a screenshot of your list of favourites/bookmarks, and load it into your blog. Label it “Thing 8”

Who gets the cake?

Because of the Bank Holiday Monday, I've waited till today to award a blog with cake.

However, because my brain is slow to get in gear this morning owing to the day off yesterday, I've managed to leave the cake at home.....

So the prize winning blog this week is this one:

But the cake (this week it's lemon cupcakes - I promise the lemon theme will chnage next week!) will be presented tomorrow.

Remember to take advantage of this week "off" to catch up with

any Things that you've not managed to finish.