Wednesday 7 July 2010

Things: tag.tastic or may be not

I am really just not getting Delicious. I know I won't feel inclined to use it at all in a personal capacity. Something about too few hours in the day...

I did read an interesting post about using it as a way of preventing the need to duplicate favourites folders at home and at work but I get round this by refusing to allow the internet to intrude into my home life!

Work wise I did find the tags being posted by the Philosophy Library most interesting. However, as our fiends at the Judge point out how do you persuade your users to go to your tags rather than just hitting Google? We used to provide a similar facility in a previous place of work as both a web page 'Where to Start you research' and as an equivalent emailable word document. Both these had the advantage of allowing you to write the document in a structured format with hints and tips included. While delicious's bundle facility goes some way to facilitating this I remain unconvinced.

1 comment:

  1. I'm going to look at Delicious as an alternative to the lists of free resources we currently have available on the Library web pages. It might be a better way for us to present information to our readers - we'll see...

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