Monday, November 26, 2007

Week 8, question 2

Question 2, part of Week 8 for Project Play
I looked up two things. With dogs, I ended up on the same website whether I clicked on title, tags (I tried multiple tags), or saved by. With TV, when I clicked on title and saved by, I got the same website but when I clicked on a tag, I was led to other websites on similar topic.

Am I right, that the number of saved by is for del.icio.us or is it the website I was at -- meaning I clicked on a dogs title from Menasha PL's site and got over 800 people had saved that title -- is that 800+ people saving it from del.icio.us or from visiting the Menasha PL website? Anyone know the answer for sure?

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Lesson 8 - a del.icio.us meal from Project Play

Another great lesson from the Project Play team. Teaches new tools and informs users about benefits of social networking. When I first looked at the Seminole Co. Library webpage, I was thinking "wait a minute, there's no organization, the first page just STARTS and there is no explanation of what this is!" Then, I took another look and saw the right-hand column with the tags and realized people will just get the idea of what Seminole PL has created for users (to use and add to) by clicking on the tag. As I clicked further, I saw the difference in the right-hand columns,
Seminole is one long alpha list that you have to scroll through, Menasha uses subjects to organize into subjects/categories; and San Mateo uses Dewey! I liked Menasha's choice best, way to go, Menasha folks!

Thought the Nashvilee Teen Site impressive. Are teens around the globe already using del.icio.us for their own stuff? (Don't tell me if they've been using it for years!!!)

I can see our library considering del.icio.us and tags for book reviews, teen site, genealogy.

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