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Social Bookmarking and RSS
LSNTAP Online Training
19 July 2006
Presenters
• Steve Gray
Steve Gray is Technology Manager at Legal
Services of South Central Michigan, as well
as the curator of the LStech.org web site.
• Madhu Lakshmanan
Madhu is a free-lance information architect and
end-user advocate. She is also a content
coordinator consultant for LSNTAP.
Agenda
• Web 2.0 – What’s the deal?
– Features
• Social Bookmarking
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Tagging
Spotlight on Del.icio.us
Use in NPOs
Uses in Legal Services
• RSS
– What is it All About?
– Use in Legal Services
– Other Non-profit Uses
Web 2.0 - Introduction
• No single definition for what makes a site a web
2.0 site.
• It is not just using AJAX code or subtle colors
and curved boxes in the design.
• Web 2.0 - a set of principles and practices
• Sites and web apps are Web 2.0 in varying
degrees – it seems to be a continuum not a
yes/no value.
Web 2.0 – Some Features
• More user control of look and feel
• Online applications with increased use of
scripting languages
• Designed for “hackability” and “remixability”
• Perpetual Beta
• “Device”, not only PC/Mac
• Lightweight, yet rich UI
• Harness collective intelligence
“Web 2.0 is using the web the way it was intended to be used” – Paul
Graham
Social Bookmarking & Tagging
• Social Bookmarking is the concept of viewing and
sharing bookmarks with others using the web as a
medium. Tagging is a way of organizing and searching
these links.
• A tag is a keyword or descriptive term associated with an
item, an item can have more than one tag associated
with it
• Allows classification/search in many different ways since
each person may see the same thing in different ways
• Gmail uses “labels” in the same way
• Key component of social bookmarking, creating context
and add organizational value
Del.icio.us
• It is a social bookmarking web service for storing
and sharing web bookmarks
• users can tag each of their bookmarks with a
number of freely chosen keywords
• A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with
a given tag is available; e.g. the URL
"http://del.icio.us/tag/lstech" displays all of the
most recent links tagged “lstech“
– This feature can be used by organizations to create a set of common
resources based on a tag that is unique to their members.
– RSS feeds of any tagged set are available to include on a website or
feed-reader.
Demo Del.icio.us -1
Demo Del.icio.us -2
How to Bookmark
Demo Del.icio.us -3
• Search
• Private saving of bookmarks – use a group
login to del.icio.us
• For: username
• RSS feed
Del.icio.us Navigation
Address bar or breadcrumbs
Every user has his or her own page for bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/grange
Every tag has its own page:
http://del.icio.us/tag/lstech
You can view bookmarks by user and tag:
http://del.icio.us/grange/ntaptraining
View bookmarks tagged “RSS" and “ntaptraining" (an intersection):
http://del.icio.us/tag/RSS+ntaptraining
View bookmarks tagged “RSS" and “ntaptraining" by grange:
http://del.icio.us/grange/RSS+ntaptraining
View bookmarks tagged specifically for you:
http://del.icio.us/for
Your subscriptions:
http://del.icio.us/inbox
Del.icio.us Tips
from http://slackermanager.com/2005/12/the_several_hab.html
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Create many bookmarks
Tag everything, clean up your tags periodically
Use the Inbox
Play around with compound terms and media
types and file-types
Track other users
Subscribe to feeds
Export, create tag clouds for your blog or
website
Explore – new features are coming
Can We Talk?
How is/could the poverty law
community use Del.icio.us?
Please type your answers in the chat window.
Social Bookmarking in NPOs
• Nptech tag on del.icio.us
- Using the free online social bookmarking tool, Del.icio.us, any user
can mark a web page for the attention of the nonprofit technology
community by using the tag "nptech."
- collaboration among individuals who are interested in information
technology for NPOs
• Craft Emergency Relief Fund
http://craftemergency.org/programs/prevention/preparedness
- using bookmarks to populate links on their preparedness page.
“nptech” tag
“Live” Resource Page
Social Bookmarking in NPOs -2
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• They set up lots of tags relating to their mission and
fundraising program.
• Are experimenting with them within their message
boards and emails - the vision is that the "group"
can collaborate together to create a much more
robust and complete set of articles and resources in
one place.
• They continue to experiment and play with tags,
using them for a few months in conjunction with
experiments on Squidoo to combine tag RSS feeds
directly into their “lenses”.
Lymphoma on Squidoo
Social Bookmarking In Poverty Law
Programs
• WorkGroups – i.e. statewide taskforces
• Programs – program bookmarks
• Experts – like a blog for resources
Poverty Law Workgroups
Internal use in Poverty Law Programs
Experts
RSS
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Your own personal customized newspaper
Information delivered to you
Saves time
Useful for Collaboration
– Track particular topic/source
– Suggested Reading list
– Everyone sees the same news
– Share with others through blog/website
RSS Use in Legal Services
• Roll Your Own Poverty Law Newspaper
• Del.icio.us Feeds
Can We Talk?
How is/could the poverty law
community use RSS?
Please type your answers in the chat window?
Poverty Law Newspaper
Use in Statewide Websites
RSS in Other NPOs
• RSS Grant Channel http://news.gilbert.org/2004RSSGrantsChannels
publication of structured announcements of
grants made.
• Project VoteSmart – http://www.votesmart.org/rss.htm
compiles information updates on the 20 most
recent key votes going through Congress
• Handsnet – now populated by content from
various RSS feeds.
HandsNet
RSS and Del.icio.us
Resources
• Del.icio.us Tools
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/02/absolut
ely-delicious-complete-tools-collection/
• Choosing Effective del.icio.us Tags
http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20060310/updatechoosing-effective-delicious-tags
• Extended bookmarklets
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/%7Ecmillward/delish.php
• RSS Resources http://allrss.com/rssresources.html
• Delicious Tag for RSS http://del.icio.us/tag/RSS
• Delicious Tag for SocialBookmarking and LSTech
http://del.icio.us/tag/SocialBookmarking+LSTech
Questions?