Social Bookmarking & Del.icio.us: A Personal and Professional Productivity Tool Patricia F. Anderson <pfa@umich.edu> Health Sciences Libraries University of Michigan February 22, 2007 © 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Del.icio.us

Useful for … Folk who use multiple computers in various locations Discovery of items similar to your selections Collecting search strategies & information for bibliographies Course-integrated instruction Sharing resources with peers, managers, students & others Web site development

Folk who use multiple computers in various locations

Discovery of items similar to your selections

Collecting search strategies & information for bibliographies

Course-integrated instruction

Sharing resources with peers, managers, students & others

Web site development

Content in Del.icio.us Database built by general public, contains what others liked Focused: better for popular topics and items Currently tends to focus on items of interest to technophiles and young adults, but growing and diversifying What you add changes the profile

Database built by general public, contains what others liked

Focused: better for popular topics and items

Currently tends to focus on items of interest to technophiles and young adults, but growing and diversifying

What you add changes the profile

Like Del.icio.us … but for Scientists Connotea CiteULike

Connotea

CiteULike

Connotea

Connotea

CiteULike

Searching in Del.icio.us Three options

Three options

Searching in Del.icio.us Example:

Example:

Searching in Del.icio.us Let’s try it. http://del.icio.us/

Let’s try it.

http://del.icio.us/

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us Tags are freeform and self-selected Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation for the same concept Avian flu = avian.flu = avian_flu = avian-flu = avianflu = Avian.flu = Avian.Flu = “avian flu” = … Avian influenza Bird flu = birdflu Bird influenza Pandemic influenza Pandemic flu H5N1 / h5n1 MORE: tamiflu, pandemic, flu, epidemic, influenza Watch for popular terms

Tags are freeform and self-selected

Check a variety of spellings, phrasings, capitalization, and punctuation for the same concept

Avian flu = avian.flu = avian_flu = avian-flu = avianflu = Avian.flu = Avian.Flu = “avian flu” = …

Avian influenza

Bird flu = birdflu

Bird influenza

Pandemic influenza

Pandemic flu

H5N1 / h5n1

MORE: tamiflu, pandemic, flu, epidemic, influenza

Watch for popular terms

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us DEMO http://del.icio.us/tag/

DEMO

http://del.icio.us/tag/

Getting Started Create your account Upload your bookmarks Export bookmarks (“hotsync”) Save links Tag Annotate Settings

Create your account

Upload your bookmarks

Export bookmarks (“hotsync”)

Save links

Tag

Annotate

Settings

Create Your Account

Create Your Account Each account must be associated with a unique e-mail address (I think). If creating an account to be shared across an office, consider creating an e-mail list to serve as the contact e-mail address.

Each account must be associated with a unique e-mail address (I think).

If creating an account to be shared across an office, consider creating an e-mail list to serve as the contact e-mail address.

Create Your Account Consider the purpose of the account when naming it; segregate home / personal and office collections. If you will be collecting information that is private consider choosing a username that will not be associated with you personally.

Consider the purpose of the account when naming it; segregate home / personal and office collections.

If you will be collecting information that is private consider choosing a username that will not be associated with you personally.

Create Your Account Let’s do it! Choose a fictional “name”? If you have a non-UM e-mail address, consider using that as the contact. Use a different password than your Kerberos password. You will need to open your e-mail in another window to activate the account.

Let’s do it!

Choose a fictional “name”?

If you have a non-UM e-mail address, consider using that as the contact.

Use a different password than your Kerberos password.

You will need to open your e-mail in another window to activate the account.

Upload Bookmarks Easy : Select file, accept default options Public or Private - your choice

Easy : Select file, accept default options

Public or Private - your choice

Export Bookmarks Like hotsyncing your browser

Like hotsyncing your browser

How to Save a Link With the post button With the browser buttons Required elements: title / URL Optional standard elements: tags / annotations Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

With the post button

With the browser buttons

Required elements: title / URL

Optional standard elements: tags / annotations

Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

How to Save a Link With the post button (eg. PDFs)

With the post button (eg. PDFs)

How to Save a Link With the post button (eg. PDFs)

With the post button (eg. PDFs)

How to Save a Link With the browser buttons TIP: Use the tab to fill in a tag with the highlighted tag, or click on the choice to save typing.

With the browser buttons

TIP: Use the tab to fill in a tag with the highlighted tag, or click on the choice to save typing.

How to Save a Link Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

How to Tag Tagging rules Separate tags with a space Join words with punctuation (lower-case preferred) (some simply delete spaces between words) Use capitalization appropriately to improved readability or to distinguish between tags and bundles

Tagging rules

Separate tags with a space

Join words with punctuation (lower-case preferred) (some simply delete spaces between words)

Use capitalization appropriately to improved readability or to distinguish between tags and bundles

How to Annotate Annotations: Personal vs. Communal Citations Quotations Date Viewed Size limits on what can be included

Annotations: Personal vs. Communal

Citations

Quotations

Date Viewed

Size limits on what can be included

Tag & Annotate Examples

Tag & Annotate Examples

Tag & Annotate Examples

Editing Saved Links

Personalized Settings Privacy options Tag Bundles Networking

Privacy options

Tag Bundles

Networking

Personalized Settings: Privacy Private links (checkbox) Private network (block someone who sends you inappropriate links)

Private links (checkbox)

Private network (block someone who sends you inappropriate links)

Personalized Settings: Tag Bundles SAVE!

SAVE!

Who Saved What?

Personalized Settings: Networks

Using Networks for Discovery

Things To Do With Del.icio.us Working with students Del.icio.us in class environments (Google jockeys) Working with peers and administrators Have an assistant gather information for you

Working with students

Del.icio.us in class environments (Google jockeys)

Working with peers and administrators

Have an assistant gather information for you

Del.icio.us vs. Ctools for URL Collections Del.icio.us Available to public (+/-) Annotations and tags provide richer information than the Ctools Dropbox Easier to share/add/delete links than Ctools Students develop skills and collections for life after Michigan Feeds the public good Ctools Can secure access to a select group (+/-) Integrates with other course materials UM Institutional and community standard

Del.icio.us

Available to public (+/-)

Annotations and tags provide richer information than the Ctools Dropbox

Easier to share/add/delete links than Ctools

Students develop skills and collections for life after Michigan

Feeds the public good

Ctools

Can secure access to a select group (+/-)

Integrates with other course materials

UM Institutional and community standard

Collect Links for Building Websites

Collect Information to Answer a Question Remember privacy issues: Does your collection reveal identity?

Remember privacy issues: Does your collection reveal identity?

Collect Information and Strategies for Your Manager

Have an Assistant Collect Links for You

Create Information and Teaching Guides Library guides …

Library guides …

Linking to Complex Concepts Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

Example Library Guide Notice the annotations?

Notice the annotations?

Saving Search Strategies Saving search strategies for a class (Google Jockey concept) …

Saving search strategies for a class (Google Jockey concept) …

Tagging Tips Too few terms can make retrieval difficult Too many terms can also make retrieval difficult

Too few terms can make retrieval difficult

Too many terms can also make retrieval difficult

Tagging Tips Include both broad and narrow terms Design terms with repeated concepts to go from broad to narrow, general to specific.

Include both broad and narrow terms

Design terms with repeated concepts to go from broad to narrow, general to specific.

Tagging Tips Use punctuation for spaces (lower case) Think of unique concepts as two term combinations, rather than a new term. Standardization helps, but requires maintenance.

Use punctuation for spaces (lower case)

Think of unique concepts as two term combinations, rather than a new term.

Standardization helps, but requires maintenance.

Tagging Tips Tagging shortcuts: examples Items for a particular audience: 4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, etc Items from frequently read journals or authors: in:jada, in:nyt, in:chronicle, in:agd Items for people in your delicious network: for:dentlib, for:tmjchat

Tagging shortcuts: examples

Items for a particular audience:

4doctors, 4kids, 4patients, etc

Items from frequently read journals or authors:

in:jada, in:nyt, in:chronicle, in:agd

Items for people in your delicious network:

for:dentlib, for:tmjchat

Saving Items Tagged for You

Saving Items Tagged for You

Tag Clouds

Tag Bundles

Questions? Contact: Patricia Anderson at pfa@umich.edu

Contact: Patricia Anderson at pfa@umich.edu