My Gadget Life

Some ideas from Jenny’s talk:
- use a wiki for OPAC documentation: let users ask questions
- password protect your wiki to hide from spammers (most people don’t have time to keep doing the rollbacks to kill spam)
- del.icio.us has 50,000 users & growing 20-30%/month
- ideas for del.icio.us for libraries: Thomas Ford Memorial Library:
Here is a list of things we’ve bookmarked recently – they show that with RSS feed for their tags. Cool.
- del.icio.us / popular/ reference: Google cheatsheet is number 1
- people use the tag: howto
- del.icio.us: inbox – subscribe to people you think are interesting
- Furl is not as social as del.icio.us – really cool but not as many people using it. They give you 5 Gb of space. When you bookmark, it saves the whole page.
- Furl tags are not public – you can only access your own stuff.
- How Joe Q. is using social bookmark managers:
Furl ideas from the public – gift ideas, xmas wish list, housing rental listings, streaming music stations, job listings, school work – save and retrieve online research, reading lists.
- Rubric and Unalog
- Citeulike.org (academic del.icio.us)
- Connotea
- U.Minnesota blogs: integrated SFX into blogs: link to SFX URL (I’ve seen this before, it’s great).
- Flickr could be a daylong session.
- Flickr great for current events.
- SeattlePublicLibrary on Flickr.
- Flickr calendar view – show when your books are due.
- make a tag for your library on Flickr
- photos of books, add comments with links to the OPAC
- more Flickr ideas: teaching 7th grade math, geography (Mappr – uses Flickr photos to do cool stuff), available for reference within Flickr – going where your users are!
- promote the Yahoo Worldcat toolbar to get direcctly to your holdings
- Technorati
- we should be making our own toolbars for libraries
- “books we like” – tagging recommendations
- libraries could add “tags” in addition to subject headings
- getting our information, expertise and resources in the mix (of social tools)
- we should examine tags and folksonomies
- use RSS to put your content somewhere else, you can appear in other people’s web sites and aggregators
- rss feeds for new books, etc.
- spurl.net (js button) – they give you the HTML to put their feed into your web site
- blogs + RSS = better ranking in Google, Bloglines, Feedster, PubSub, BlogPulse, puts you into the online conversation
- Yahoo360, 43 Things, Audioscrobbler, Last.FM, NetFlix, GPS, RFID
- http://www.sls.lib.il.us/infotech/presentations/2005/neasist.pdf