Introduction to Social Bookmarking Allows you to share: internet favorites, online resources, books and journal articles Tagging helps organise resources Numerous tools available:

Allows you to share: internet favorites, online resources, books and journal articles

Tagging helps organise resources

Numerous tools available:

A way to share internet favourites or bookmarks online Accessible from anywhere Tagging facilitates resource discovery Can be used to share resources in teaching. See examples from LASSIE project , from Institute of Education LSE Careers use delicious…

A way to share internet favourites or bookmarks online

Accessible from anywhere

Tagging facilitates resource discovery

Can be used to share resources in teaching. See examples from LASSIE project , from Institute of Education

LSE Careers use delicious…

It’s free! Can build a network to share resources Using unique tags allows customised lists to be built e.g. for specific groups or events Del.icio.us is very flexible and tags can be put onto web pages Other things about del.icio.us

It’s free!

Can build a network to share resources

Using unique tags allows customised lists to be built e.g. for specific groups or events

Del.icio.us is very flexible and tags can be put onto web pages

A personal reference management tool for storing and sharing your books and journals articles Uses tagging to organise your papers Can be used for resource discovery Can be used to create a reading list for students Doesn’t currently support export to Endnote Free!

A personal reference management tool for storing and sharing your books and journals articles

Uses tagging to organise your papers

Can be used for resource discovery

Can be used to create a reading list for students

Doesn’t currently support export to Endnote

Free!

Developed by Harvard Law School for creating online ‘ playlists ’ or reading lists see my example Can add all sorts of different resources: internet sites, PDFs, books, journal articles Good for resource discovery: uses tagging Free!

Developed by Harvard Law School for creating online ‘ playlists ’ or reading lists see my example

Can add all sorts of different resources: internet sites, PDFs, books, journal articles

Good for resource discovery: uses tagging

Free!

For the budding librarian! Allows you to create a list of your books and to share these See my book list as an example Can add reviews, ratings and discuss books Recommends books to you … and people with similar lists to you

For the budding librarian!

Allows you to create a list of your books and to share these

See my book list as an example

Can add reviews, ratings and discuss books

Recommends books to you … and people with similar lists to you

In summary Convenient, online organisation Fun and social Aids resource discovery Uses data in many existing systems such as Amazon

Convenient, online organisation

Fun and social

Aids resource discovery

Uses data in many existing systems such as Amazon