Sharing Online Resources Social Bookmarking

Ambition in Action Facilitators Stephan Ridgway, Workforce Development

Ambition in Action Session Overview /The personal (browser bookmarks) VS the Social (public tagging) /How tagging can be used to manage, categorise and share online resources within social networks /Understand the difference between taxonomic and folksonomic classification /The role of RSS in syndicating, mashingup and embedding tag feeds /Overview of 2 social bookmarking tools & / Using Social Bookmarking in Education

Ambition in Action Social Bookmarking - Short VersionSocial Bookmarking - Short Version by Common Craft Tagging in Social Networks

Ambition in Action Summary: social bookmarking /A means for storing, organising, searching and managing favourite sites on the web /Organisation is based on ‘tags’ or key words (individual or group) /Bookmarks are listed chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine. /RSS enabled – subscribers can become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared and tagged by other users. /Newer tools have a range of other features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, ing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or social networking features

Ambition in Action Tagging in Social Networks How tagging can be used to manage, categorise and share online resources within social networks

Ambition in Action User-Based Tagging and Folksonomies Multiple concepts activated Choose ONE of the activated concepts. Categorize it! Object worth remembering (article, image…) Analysis- Paralysis! Image by Rashmi Sinha

Ambition in Action Taxonomic vs Folksonomic Taxonomy - The science of classification (The experts do it)  From the greek verb:  Taxis = "to classify“  Nomos = "law, science, economy“  Hierarchical-enumerative top down tree like structure  Hierarchies designed and maintained by experts  Repositories cataloged by experts eg. libraries  Structure imposed on the world of objects  Centralised classification

Ambition in Action Taxonomic vs Folksonomic Folksonomy - Social classification (The Folks do it)  Folk + Taxonomy meaning that it emerges from the people  Open democatic system  Constantly evolving based on user interactions and consensus  tags capture the social fabic at that moment in time  Structure is an emergent property  Well suited to rapidly changing heterogeneous information sources such as the internet and social networks

Ambition in Action RSS (real simple syndication)

Ambition in Action Tagging & the wisdom of the crowds Collective Intelligence The Knowledge of Networks Connectivism

Ambition in Action Social Bookmarking Services

Ambition in Action Social Bookmarking in Education

Ambition in Action del.icio.us /Initially developed by Joshua Schachter as a simple web page listing bookmarks with annotations, Schachter then decided to make these available on a web server so that friends and others could also view them. From there, it was but a small step to hosting others' lists, and so the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us was born.del.icio.us /Now owned by Yahoo it probably the most well know and utilised social bookmarking tool.Yahoo

Ambition in Action Diigo /Like del.icio.us Diigo is a free social bookmarking service. Pronounced as Dee'go the name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff." /Diigo combines social bookmarking and social networking to form what they refer to as a Social Information Network (SIN) where information consumption, research, and sharing is central, and where the connection between people and people, between people and information, and between information and information, are exploited and harnessed to improve knowledge sharing and content discovery, and to enable more meaningful social connections and intellectual exchanges.

Ambition in Action In Education /Create social bookmark repositories on relevant areas so you, your colleagues and students can contribute to a growing database of web resources. /Network with other educators globally who share your interests /Contact other people for professional networking, based on their social bookmarks /Subscribe to someone's bookmarks via RSS and receive updates whenever they add new websites /Collaborate on projects with other teaching sections, industry partners, libraries by sharing bookmarks between all participating communities /Social bookmarking can be used as a very effective research tool /Sharing online resources with other networked communities ie twitter, facebook /If you want a social bookmarking services only visible within the DET firewall then CURLS is for you !!CURLS

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