The delicious tutorial was informative and provided a context on using delicious. I recommend it! I set up a delicious account for myself as I have been working on collecting data for work. I tend to work better in the evening so I do a lot of my research at night. In the morning, being able to go to one place to locate links versus emailing myself improved the process. Overall, I will use delicious in this regard.
After watching the tutorial, I am thinking of how I can incorporate this within my work place. I see the biggest challenge to be bringing my coworkers into the 2.0 world. In this regard, my current job and that of a librarian are in sync. These 2.0 tools can improve collaboration, improve communication with those in other locations, save time, save paper, etc. With all those positives, why is it difficult to get other to adopt?
I see two obstacles for myself. One, the different usernames, passwords and allowed emails (yahoo vs google) frustrates me. I am too busy spend a lot of time searching, requesting new passwords, etc. Second, time for me and the life span of a product is tricky. I can set up training people using a software. Then, we are forced to move on to other parts of our job and later no one has gone back to use the software for themselves. I assume this is the same for others.
I will probably post on this later when I am summarizing my experience. But another obstacle I see is that I am learning 2.0 applications that have been around for 2-3 years. Some are outdated, some are no longer "in", newer applications are better, maybe we have moved on to 3.0 at this point. How do we gauge what is useful? What is worth our time? When to act? How can libraries (education) who budget annually plan for technological needs when a great application may not even be on the radar at budget time?
I am familiar with tagging because I have been using LibraryThing for the last 2 years and tagged my books. Tagging in delicious introduced me to other articles/blogs/opinions. Tagging in LibraryThing helps me find other books by viewing all books in the library tagged that way. When I visit a blog, I am able to see the tags and pull up all entries related to a topic which I find useful and a timesaver.
The downside to tagging is that you and I have a different idea of what something should be tagged. I might run into posts/articles that are not what I am looking to find. From a librarian's perspective, this would be a challenge where accuracy and the ability to find and access information is a priority. For me, looking at a blog or other delicious users tags is done as recreation so I am more interested in what others do and why they do it. I like that.
Thing 11 content is found here
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