Thing 11 : Tagging

So. I'm finally back at it. I figure September 15th is close enough that I'd better get in gear here if I'm gonna get one of those groovy 23 Things USB sticks. We'll see.

I thought the Del.icio.us tutorial was ... good, but not great. For one thing, I couldn't figure out how to get the screen size of the broadcast bigger so that I could actually see the screen shots without totally squinting. I finally gave up and just listened to the presenter while I doodled around on the web.

Finally went to the Del.icio.us site (first the Minn23 site where I found a fabulous site on how to make "simple" Robert Sabuda pop-ups!)
http://www.robertsabuda.com/popmakesimple.asp
and also set up my own Del.icio.us account.

Ultimately, however, I don't see much use (at this point) for me personally with social tagging of sites. Since I primarily use one computer, my "favorites" folders work just fine for me. I make it an almost-sacred policy to never, ever do work at home (once in a great while I fall off the wagon) so I don't have use for accessing my bookmarked web sites other than at my work computer.

However ... I would never have found that fabulous Robert Sabuda site had it not been for tagging! Where I can see this really being useful in my job, personally, is for planning my weekly storytimes. There is so much (SO MUCH) word-of-mouth and passing back and forth between peers for new, fresh ideas for storytime that catching that same wave through social tagging could have a lot of potential. I'll have to see if I can make use of it later on this fall ...

P.S. Thanks to the Common Craft video http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english for a MUCH better take on Del.icio.us