Smore Delicious Tools

s’more delicious sites TCLC Summer Camp July 16, 2008 Lianne Hartman Reference/Instruction Librarian J Wynia

S electing O rganizing S haring
del.icio.us
Website for online social bookmarking
You can integrate it with your browser
Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)
Create mini-Internets of websites you choose
Get a search box into those sites

Social Bookmarking
Common Craft guys explain it better
www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english
Ei! Krumpel ramson

Let’s Build It!
Open Firefox
Go to delicious.com
Click on Get Started or Register
Register
Wait on the first page

The Fine Art of Tagging
Develop your own subject headings
Tags can be anything: description, action, person
cambodia4kidsorg

Don’t be a Tag Hog! Share!
Find out the username of the person next to you
Tag a site with for:his/her name
hthg1983 gratuitous cute animal picture

Discovery
Use delicious to find sites recommended by other people
Search all tags on delicious
Create a network to share with friends, family, colleagues, others with similar interests

Tagging in the Stacks
Working with a student? Recommending a lot of sites?
- Tag them with the student’s name
Standard URLs
http://del.icio.us/ GMCLibrarian / Barbara
Courses, faculty members, who/what else?

Fancy delicious
RSS Feeds available for all of your tags
RSS2HTML www.rss2html.com
Use to create subject guides, course guides, etc.
Advantage: able to update on-the-fly
Disadvantage: time to set up initially

back at the library…
Open Firefox
If you don’t have Firefox, go to getfirefox.com
Go to delicious.com
Login with username/password you created today
Go to Help
Select Firefox Bookmarks Extension

Summer Camp is In-Tents

Search me.
Create your own corner of the web
Google Custom Search
Google.com/cse
Rollyo
Rollyo.com

Ultimate Recipe Search
http://allrecipes.com/*
http://foodnetwork.com/*
http://epicurious.com/*
ninahale

Let’s Customize!
http://www.google.com/cse

Why?
Already identified sites that are useful
Cut down number of results
Guide students to resources you know will be helpful

Examples
Reeves Library @ Moravian College
http://home.moravian.edu/public/reeves/
research/web/ websubject.htm
Education Research and Reports
http://tinyurl.com/6ccn7m

Thank you!
If you get stuck, let me know. I’d be happy to unstick you.
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