About Bookmarks & Global Collaboration Michel Wesseling & Richard Lalleman 16 October 2008

About Bookmarks

&

Global Collaboration

Michel Wesseling & Richard Lalleman

16 October 2008

Bookmarks Favourites Triggers

Bookmarks

Favourites

Triggers

Different occurrences

Bookmarks Personal use Browser specific Stored on your workstation No search on keywords or tags No sharing with others

Personal use

Browser specific

Stored on your workstation

No search on keywords or tags

No sharing with others

View This?

Social Bookmarks Personal choices and tags 24 * 7 availability around the www Searchable by keywords / tags Shared with groups or completely public Influences search engines ranking

Personal choices and tags

24 * 7 availability around the www

Searchable by keywords / tags

Shared with groups or completely public

Influences search engines ranking

Delicious?

Some aids

Focuss.Info Promote social bookmarking among workers and scholars in global development arena: Publish articles Organise local workshops Present at relevant conferences It is about People!

Promote social bookmarking among workers and scholars in global development arena:

Publish articles

Organise local workshops

Present at relevant conferences

It is about People!

So: who benefits?

Search Social bookmark sites disadvantage: Search by tags only Not in sites content

Social bookmark sites disadvantage:

Search by tags only

Not in sites content

Our own search engine? Google like search capabilities Own selection of e-resources Harvest social bookmarks Not limited to one social bookmark site!

Google like search capabilities

Own selection of e-resources

Harvest social bookmarks

Not limited to one social bookmark site!

Our own search engine? Built it our selves: too much work Google introduces CSE Fits our needs No local development and maintenance

Built it our selves: too much work

Google introduces CSE

Fits our needs

No local development and maintenance

Focuss.Info website

www.eldis.org

http://home.planet.nl/~rood0114/

Focuss.Info Make use of Google CSE technology Harvest social bookmark sites of workers in the global development arena Promote search engine / search box on websites Integrate Focuss.Info in information literacy

Make use of Google CSE technology

Harvest social bookmark sites of workers in the global development arena

Promote search engine / search box on websites

Integrate Focuss.Info in information literacy

So: who benefits?

Collaborate People with same (professional) interests Convince them of the importance of social bookmarking for themselves and their peers Use and re-use existing knowledge ~40.000 sites selected

People with same (professional) interests

Convince them of the importance of social bookmarking for themselves and their peers

Use and re-use existing knowledge

~40.000 sites selected

Collaborate Librarians and information professionals Faculty and students Professionals in the field Organisations

Librarians and information professionals

Faculty and students

Professionals in the field

Organisations

Collaborate Convince people Learn how to work with the tools Repeat

Convince people

Learn how to work with the tools

Repeat

People and Organisations

Around the World

Less & Better? Posted by Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, Web Search Infrastructure Team Google, on http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html

Less & Better!

So: who benefits?

A Future? Marketing is needed Involve more people and organisations Organise workshops and training The business plan is available The search for sponsors has begun!

Marketing is needed

Involve more people and organisations

Organise workshops and training

The business plan is available

The search for sponsors has begun!

► www.focuss.info ► [email_address] ► Further readings: Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Knowledge sharing through collaboration in development studies: The Focuss.Info Initiative, Information Development , 24(2), pp. 151-155 Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Community contributed content and global studies research, Global-e: A global studies journal , 2(1), available at: http://global- ejournal.org Matthews, P. and Wunder, A. (2007) Evaluation of Google Co-op and Social Bookmarking at the Overseas Development Institute, www.web2fordev.net/