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

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Social Bookmarking & Del.icio.us:

A Personal and Professional

Productivity Tool

Social Bookmarking & Del.icio.us:

A Personal and Professional

Productivity ToolPatricia F. Anderson

<[email protected]>Health Sciences Libraries

University of MichiganFebruary 22, 2007

Patricia F. Anderson <[email protected]>

Health Sciences Libraries University of Michigan

February 22, 2007

© 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

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Del.icio.usDel.icio.us

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Useful for …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

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Content in Del.icio.usContent 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

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Like Del.icio.us … but for Scientists

Like Del.icio.us … but for Scientists

• Connotea• CiteULike

• Connotea• CiteULike

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ConnoteaConnotea

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ConnoteaConnotea

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CiteULikeCiteULike

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Searching in Del.icio.usSearching in Del.icio.us

• Three options• Three options

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Searching in Del.icio.usSearching in Del.icio.us

• Example:• Example:

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Searching in Del.icio.usSearching in Del.icio.us

• Let’s try it.

•http://del.icio.us/

• Let’s try it.

•http://del.icio.us/

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Browsing Tags in 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

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Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

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Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

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Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

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Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

Browsing Tags in Del.icio.us

• DEMO

•http://del.icio.us/tag/

• DEMO

•http://del.icio.us/tag/

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Getting StartedGetting 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

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Create Your AccountCreate Your Account

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Create Your AccountCreate 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.

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Create Your AccountCreate 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.

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Create Your AccountCreate 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.

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Upload BookmarksUpload Bookmarks

• Easy: Select file, accept default options

• Public or Private - your choice

• Easy: Select file, accept default options

• Public or Private - your choice

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Export BookmarksExport Bookmarks

• Like hotsyncing your browser• Like hotsyncing your browser

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How to Save a LinkHow 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

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How to Save a LinkHow to Save a Link

• With the post button (eg. PDFs)

• With the post button (eg. PDFs)

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How to Save a LinkHow to Save a Link

• With the post button (eg. PDFs)

• With the post button (eg. PDFs)

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How to Save a LinkHow 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.

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How to Save a LinkHow to Save a Link

• Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

• Extra optional element: Privacy checkbox

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How to TagHow 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

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How to AnnotateHow 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

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Tag & Annotate Examples

Tag & Annotate Examples

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Tag & Annotate Examples

Tag & Annotate Examples

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Tag & Annotate Examples

Tag & Annotate Examples

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Editing Saved LinksEditing Saved Links

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Personalized SettingsPersonalized Settings

• Privacy options• Tag Bundles• Networking

• Privacy options• Tag Bundles• Networking

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Personalized Settings: Privacy

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)

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Personalized Settings: Tag Bundles

Personalized Settings: Tag Bundles

• SAVE!• SAVE!

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Who Saved What?Who Saved What?

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Personalized Settings: Networks

Personalized Settings: Networks

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Using Networks for Discovery

Using Networks for Discovery

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Things To Do With Del.icio.us

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

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Del.icio.us vs. Ctools for URL Collections

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

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Collect Links for Building Websites Collect Links for Building Websites

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Collect Information to Answer a Question

Collect Information to Answer a Question

• Remember privacy issues: Does your collection reveal identity?

• Remember privacy issues: Does your collection reveal identity?

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Collect Information and Strategies for

Your Manager

Collect Information and Strategies for

Your Manager

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Have an Assistant Collect Links for YouHave an Assistant

Collect Links for You

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Create Information and Teaching Guides

Create Information and Teaching Guides

• Library guides … • Library guides …

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Linking to Complex Concepts

Linking to Complex Concepts

• Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

• Use the plus sign (+) to combine concepts

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Example Library GuideExample Library Guide

• Notice the annotations?• Notice the annotations?

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Saving Search Strategies

Saving Search Strategies

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

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

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Tagging TipsTagging 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

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Tagging TipsTagging 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.

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Tagging TipsTagging 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.

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Tagging TipsTagging 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

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Saving Items Tagged for You

Saving Items Tagged for You

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Saving Items Tagged for You

Saving Items Tagged for You

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Tag CloudsTag Clouds

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Tag BundlesTag Bundles

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Questions?Questions?

• Contact: Patricia Anderson at [email protected]• Contact: Patricia Anderson at [email protected]