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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 – 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 breadcrumbsEvery user has his or her own page for bookmarks:http://del.icio.us/grangeEvery tag has its own page:http://del.icio.us/tag/lstechYou can view bookmarks by user and tag:http://del.icio.us/grange/ntaptrainingView bookmarks tagged “RSS" and “ntaptraining" (an intersection):http://del.icio.us/tag/RSS+ntaptrainingView bookmarks tagged “RSS" and “ntaptraining" by grange:http://del.icio.us/grange/RSS+ntaptrainingView bookmarks tagged specifically for you:http://del.icio.us/forYour subscriptions:http://del.icio.us/inbox
Del.icio.us Tipsfrom http://slackermanager.com/2005/12/the_several_hab.html
• 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 -2Leukemia & 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
• 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.vote-smart.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/absolutely-delicious-complete-tools-collection/
• Choosing Effective del.icio.us Tags http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/20060310/update-choosing-effective-delicious-tags
• Extended bookmarkletshttp://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?