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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

If I have the time to go exploring through multiple links and see the interrelations between key words, I might go to del.icio.us. However, if I want to set up a way to store and share links on a particular topic, I will use del.icio.us I completely agree with Bill's assessment, del.icio.us

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

tools include popular applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasting; social networking sites such as FaceBook and LinkedIn; photo and videosharing services such as Flickr and YouTube; familiar utilities such as RSS feeds, social tagging (e.g. Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking can solve all of those problems and bring you additional benefits you probably haven’t even thought of. Your first question may be, “What the heck is social bookmarking?”. TLDR: If you’re short on time grab this quick start guide to social bookmarking. What is Social Bookmarking?

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0: Maramba, I.

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EDEN saw play.

Learning with e's

Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. Deborah Everhart (Georgetown University, USA) followed, with a session on social bookmarking, using Blackboard MLE tools.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/1/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Screencasting Del.icio.us. Folksonomies? The Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers. Organic metatags? Del.ioci.us? Self-organizing ontologies? The Power of Design. The evidence of design's power is everywhere.

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

And, of course, this principle is massively extended online as users collaborate to create folksonomies to sort the millions of items to be found in flickr, del.icio.us, YouTube and endless other sites.