social bookmarking and you

Lin Wu, MLIS, AHIP Assistant Professor & Reference Librarian

University of Tennessee Health Science Center Health Sciences Library

SocialBookmarkingandYou

 Basicinformationaboutsocialbookmarking Socialbookmarkingtool/site:Delicious.com Hands‐onexerciseusingDelicious.com

o Createanaccounto Savenewbookmarkso Addyourcolleaguestoyournetworko Createbundletags(folders)

UsingWeb‐basedtoolstobookmarkyourfavoriteWebsitecontentinsteadofusingWebbrowsers’built‐inbookmarkingtools

 StoreandorganizebookmarksontheWeb Accessbookmarksinmultiplecomputers Helpdeterminethepopularityofabookmark Buildanetworkofpeoplewiththesameinterests

 Viewbookmarkhistory Searchable

 Bookmarkscanbepublicorprivate Connectingwithpeoplewhohavethesameinterests

 Networkingwithfriendsandcolleagues Sharinginformationamonggroupsorteammembers

Therearemoreoutthere…

 Aself‐createdfileindexingsystem Singletags(subfolders)andbundletags(folders) Usekeywordoryourownwordstodescribeabookmark

 Multiplewordscanbeassignedtoebookmark Tagshelpfindbookmarksagainwhenneeded

 Somelearningcurves Deadlinks

SubjectorTopic

Keyword(s)

Typeofmedia

 Organizeclinicalrelevantinformation

 Accessbookmarksonthego Buildyournetwork Createyourownindexing/

taggingsystem Shareinformationamong

colleagues

 ClickonJoinNow LoginusingyouryahooIDifyoualreadyhaveone Createoneifyoudon’thaveone

1.Clickhere

2.EnteranURL

3.ClickNext

  GotoHelplink  ClickBookmarkingButtons…UnderNeedToolssection  ChooseanAdd‐onforyourbrowser(e.g.,Firefox)  InstallAdd‐on  ClickonAddButton Onthesoftwareinstallwindow,clickInstallNow  RestartFirefox

 Gotowww.cdc.gov Enter“PublicHealth”inthesearchboxand

conductasitesearch ClickthelinktoATSDR ClickonTAG Completetheinformationtosaveanew

bookmark

ClickTAG

Creatingyourowntaggingsystem

Edittitles

Addnotes

Addtags

Sendtoyourcolleagues

Nowthatyouhavesometags(subfolders).Howtoputthemintoafolder–aBundletag?

 GotoSettings ClickonEditTagBundles

Clickheretogetstart

1.Orothernames

2.Choosefromyourexistingtags

3.Saveyourfolder

  Findyourcolleagues  Findpeoplewhohavethesameinterestsasyou

  Addthemtoyournetwork

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Email:lwu5@uthsc.eduPhone:(901)448‐1667