social bookmarking

2.0 or and bust

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Since before my brain was hijacked by baby stuff, I’ve been thinking a lot about how many third party Web 2.0 vendors libraries are dependent upon (not to mention all the ones we’re dependent on personally!). I actually wrote a column for American Libraries on the subject, but 600 words could not reflect the whole [...]

The long road towards subject guide 2.0

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

When I finally got control over the library’s Web presence last year (a long process better discussed in a post of its own), the first thing I did was take down the library “subject guides.” You could hardly call these things subject guides; they were just a bunch of Web links in different areas. Some [...]

Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 2

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Week two of Five Weeks to a Social Library is now over. RSS and del.icio.us really generated a lot of excitement for our participants and many could see the personal and professional benefits of using these tools. We have people spending 16 hours per week on the class because they want to play with these [...]

Internet Librarian Day 1: Innovative Uses of Web 2.0 Technologies

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Jason Clark (Montana State University) and Karen Coombs (University of Houston)
Incorporating Web 2.0 into Library Websites by Karen Coombs
Web 2.0 concepts –

Radical decentralization – usually you have a Web manager who puts the content online. The University of Houston’s library has 1500 pages, so responsibilities for Web development needs to be decentralized. They developed [...]

CFP: HigherEd BlogCon

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

As you may know, I’m chairing the Library and Information Resources Track of HigherEd BlogCon, a totally online conference exploring the new technologies being used in higher education. Michelle Boule of the University of Houston is my fabulous partner-in-crime on this venture. The Call for Proposals for HigherEd BlogCon has been finalized, so I’m [...]

Folksonomies and a new librarian blogger

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

Early this week, a new librarian named Ellyssa Kroski wrote me to ask my advice on how to get started on the road to professional writing. I’d say she’s already on the right track. Check out her terrific post (though calling it a post really doesn’t do it justice; it’s really [...]

Social software metapost

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

These days it’s completely impossible to keep up with all of the “Web 2.0″ apps out there. I read eHub and TechCrunch and it seems like dozens of social software apps are released in beta (or even alpha!) each day. Social browsers, collaborative editing tools, RSS aggregators, social search, mashups of other social [...]

Leaving del.icio.us

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

I didn’t check out too many other social bookmarking tools once I started with del.icio.us, which was practically the only game in town at the time. I tried Furl for a while, but I didn’t find anything that would make me want to use it and I had a lot of trouble importing my [...]

Social Bookmarking survey

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

This morning, I had an email from Djoeke van de Klomp, the Community Manager of blinklist.com (which I hadn’t used prior to this, but it looks pretty cool!). She is doing a survey on social bookmarking:
I’m currently doing a survey to attempt to figure out which are the key features that users of social [...]

The “kept-up” distance learning librarian

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

I have gotten several emails from library students who feel that their programs are not teaching them enough about technology. The student I heard from a few days ago expressed concerns that she would be at a distinct disadvantage when she got out of school and wondered if I learned what I know about [...]

What’s happening in social bookmarking

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

I have been wanting to write more about social bookmarking for a long time, but I had two job interviews last week and an all-day marathon interview to prepare for next week. So I decided I’d just link to other articles/presentations that I thought were interesting and hope to have more time for a [...]