Activity 4: Social Bookmarking

This week we’re focusing on Social Bookmarking. This assignment is due on Tuesday, October 12.

1. Watch the Social Bookmarking in Plain English video. Read “The Brave New World of Social Bookmarking: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Too Afraid to Ask” and “7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking."
   
   
2. Do some tagging in your own blog. You can tag (Blogger calls them labels) your earlier Blogger posts with keywords or phrases. From the Blogger Dashboard, go to Manage Posts and choose the post you want to add tags to. Enter the words in the Labels for this post box in the lower right. Type in your tags (commas in between each word or phrase). Click Publish Post to re-publish the post with its labels (tags) to your blog.
   
   
3. Login to the class Delicious account (username=IM204, password=b00kmarks (0=zero)). Next, go to Google and find at least one Web site related to Web 2.0 or social software and its connection to your intended future profession (i.e. nursing, journalism, management, etc.) and tag it. Make note of the tags already used in this account and if possible, use one of them as well.
   
   To tag a Web site in Delicious: Explore the site options and try clicking on a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by other users. Can you see the tags they used to categorize this site?
• Login to our class Delicious account
• In the upper right, click on "Save a new bookmark"
• Type or paste in the url of the Web site you want to add, then click Next
• Type in some tags to describe the site -- separate each tag with a space and use an underscore (_) to create multiple word tags, then click Save
  
  You may also want to create a Delicious account for yourself and discover how this useful bookmarking tool can replace your traditional browser bookmark list. Add a few websites and add your own tags to each of your links.
  
  If you like Delicious and want to easily add bookmarks to your account, you can put buttons on your browser toolbar. Instructions are available for Internet Explorer and Firefox. For more information, view this 8-minute Delicious tutorial to get a good overview of its features.
  

Post in your blog:

• Label this post Activity 4: Social Bookmarking.
  
  
• Can you see the potential of this tool for your own research or for your personal interests? What about for research within groups or work within your future profession? Please describe why or why not.
  
• Which site(s) did you bookmark and add to the class Delicious account? What tags did you choose?
  
  
• What are some potential benefits of the social (sharing) aspect of social bookmarking?