Organization: collecting, grouping, and sharing stuff

Social Bookmarking

• Share and categorize web bookmarks
• Del.icio.us is probably most popular
• Not only way to share and categorize, but also great for discovering new things
• Can do some magic and feed these links on your website -- Linkrolls -- Make your lists of web resources work harder!
• Free
• Examples:
  • libraryman
  • haveuheard
  • collaboration20

Tagging & Tag Clouds (visualization)

• 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online
• Tagging is essentially informal cataloging in terms that users create themselves
• Also known as a folksonomy
• Tags can also be viewed in clouds
  • Tags that are in larger font and bold are more popular, well-used
  • The smaller the tag, the more unique or less-used
  • You can click on any tag in a cloud to be taken to information using that tag
• Examples:
  • del.icio.us
  • flickr
  • Geotagging on Flickr

Social "Cataloging"

• Subscribers enter books they own, tag them, rate them, review them, talk about them
• Social nature creates an extremely valuable tool

• LibraryThing
  • over 16 million books cataloged by almost 250,000 members
  • Free up to 200 books, unlimited books is $25/life
  • Creates recommendations based on what people own
• Shelfari is another example

Mashups

(from Geek and Poke)

• A web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service
• Examples:
  • OWLS Libraries (unofficial - Google and OWLSweb)
  • Housing Maps (Google and craigslist)
  • PlaceOpedia (Wikipedia and Google)
  • Daily Mashup (Flickr, del.icio.us, furl)
  • Spell with Flickr
  • Danbury CT OPAC + LibraryThing
  • Cambridge Libraries hot titles carousel
• More examples and info about mashups
• Learn more about mashups by listening to Darlene Fichter's SirsiDynix Insitute presentation,  Mashups: A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That