1. Social
Sign up for Social
Bookmarking Bookmarking
We are using
delicious.com
For more on delicious.com, please visit
http://vimeo.com/15143466
This enables us to
together do
Collaborative
Discovery
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2. What are Tags?
Tags are words that mean something
Sometimes called labels, categories,
or keywords
Things that are tagged can have many
tags
i.e. not like folders, where only one
copy resides
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3. Folksonomy
Tags are personal; a “folksonomy”
not “taxonomy”
A folksonomy is the practice of
organizing information using
spontaneous, collaboratively
generated, open-ended labels to
annotate or categorize content
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4. Tagging Best Practices
Tag ideas, concepts and events
Use nouns if possible
The best tags are narrow and specific
apple is too broad, mac better,
mac osx best
Give preference to singular base
Limit abbreviations
Consider modifying bookmark title:
article title « source
Take full advantage of notes:
[comment] “quote from webpage”
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5. Multi-Word Tags
In most cases tag separately if each
word use in a future topic search
significant: lamp shade
not significant: san francisco
You never are going to search for “san”
Multi-word tags are typically
compacted
sanfrancisco, christopherallen
Proper words often camel-cased
SanFrancisco, ChristopherAllen
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6. Tagging Best Practices
Be consistent
Think of what words others may use
Periodically review and update your
tags
When you successfully find a
bookmark from the past, add a new
tag
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7. BGI Conventions
Use ‘bgiedu’ for web pages about BGI, but
not other webpages. Don’t use ‘bgi’.
Use ‘bgimgt’ for any course related
webpages
Label for specific course, e.g.
‘bgimgt564”, ‘bgimgt566sx’, etc.
Use ‘mywriting’, ‘myprofile’ for your own
work
Add http://delicious.com/bgiedu to your
Delicious network
Send your Delicious account name to
socialweb@bgi.edu to get added to BGI’s
bookmark network.
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8. Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu
BGI Network
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9. Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu/bundle:Students
BGI Students
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10. Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu/bundle:Staff-
Faculty-TA
BGI Staff/Faculty/TAs
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11. Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu/bundle:Alumni
BGI Alumni
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12. Bookmarks by me http://delicious.com/christophera
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13. Bookmarks by me for this http://delicious.com/christophera/bgimgt566sx
class
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14. Bookmarks by a BGI http://delicious.com/christophera/bgimgt566sx
Teacher for Class Week 1 +week1
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15. Scan
The Social Web Don’t just read —
bookmark and tag the
your favorite web pages
and the most useful posts.
Add bookmarks of use to
you and fellow students
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16. Focus
Learn to be brutal with
The Social Web your reading.
Don’t read anything that
you don’t think is
interesting.
Scan first, then read.
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17. Act
Share your favorite posts
The Social Web with others, and point
them to your social
bookmarks!
Add your fellow students
to your delicious.com
network
Browse their bookmarks
and add them to your
social bookmarks
Join the conversation!
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18. Share
Cajole your colleagues
The Social Web into participating.
The more people you
have sharing the
responsibility to read and
engage, the more
effective your network
will be.
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19. Share
Get them involved by
The Social Web sharing with them what
you like.
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20. Share
... and what you don’t like.
The Social Web
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21. Share
Share your experience in
The Social Web learning to use the Social
Web.
Help others over the
hurdles you’ve already
learned how to handle.
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22. Share
Share your Passion!
The Social Web
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23. Explore
Together you can explore
The Social Web the world better.
You don’t have to read it
all, only your share.
The rest will be read by
others, and the best will
be shared back to you.
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