I am now officially a Thing 10 fan

I went to Gale database (Infotrac) training yesterday. Our trainer, Julie, showed us how to bookmark searches so that we could find them again, say if this related to a school assignment. Since they are persistent (stable) URLs we can add them to Delicious.

I tested it and it works. Yeah! Also works with the Backpack feature in Kids Infobits. Julie said that the Galenet URLs are usually stable. You can use the bookmark or Backpack feature in Infotrac.

Great use for a Delicious reference set of bookmarks.

I'm liking Thing 10 more and more

I just added 23Things@NEFLIN to my Delicious list. I can never remember its exact address and I was going to NEFLIN's website to find the blog. Now I have it in Delicious and it is much easier to find. I noticed that 23 other people have added it to Delicious.

I'm excited about Thing 10

I just found a real live use for Delicious.

In looking at the WebJunction web site for some info--love that site--I found something else that is interesting but I am not ready to use it right now.

How to remember it? Tag it by using Delicious! A teachable moment!

Thing 11: Social networking

I started on Thing 11. Watched the video--love those videos. I also looked at Mixx. I'm a bit familiar with Reddit and Mixx looks to be similar.

I've seen the share and article tools on various websites. Now I know better what they do.

As to use in libraries...there are many links we can make between these sharing tools, and with bookmarks such as Delicious. I can see some value in a library setting but wonder if these links would be used. I wonder if others feel like I do sometimes...too much information.

Thing 10, part 3

I'm suffering from information overload. I looked at NEFLIN's Delicious list of bookmarks and saw several I'd like to investigate...time permitting.

Delicious will be useful for libraries in creating booklists and bookmarks for patrons.

Thing 10, part 2

I looked at Delicious a bit more and imported all of my bookmarks. I spent some time deleting bookmarks for sites I no longer use.

This is something I've thought about before..using bookmarks. I no longer bookmark as many sites as I used to. Perhaps more familiarity with the web is one reason, but I think a bigger reason is the powerful Google search engine. It's easy to find a website and info inside a website. You don't have to remember the website exactly, just a good question to ask.

Thing 10

I began exploring Delicious. I've heard about it but never investigated what it was all about. I like the little video that goes with some of the Things, short and very good at explaining the Thing.

I've registered for Delicious and imported bookmarks. I know I'm going to like Delicious. Librarians like to organize and Delicious certainly does that. I'm looking forward to tagging new sites and organizing them.

I can see benefits for libraries. I've seen some libraries that do this and I can see how it would help in organizing websites that correlate with student assignments, or booklists for readers.

I'll investigate Delicious more later on today.