Method 7- Tagging, folksonomies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

I had an account with Del.icio.us for a while now and it is very convenient to have my favorite websites saved and then be able to retrieve them from anywhere.  Reading the articles and watching the tutorials showed me more of the possibilities available with this site that I had not utilized before.   I tried out the features to search for new bookmarks through tags and view the wealth of great sites that others have discovered.  I found some new gems that will be useful in my work and personal enjoyment I thought the way the site organizes the saved bookmarks by a tag to keep all the bookmarks with similar categories together a plus.  In addition, I did look through the other library's listing and found them helpful  My library has not created a Del.icio.us account yet which I will recommend that we do.  I agree with the article- there is great potential to provide online resources in a way better for patrons because the listings are offered with user friendly tags not just the ambiguous Dewey decimal labels.  This tool is easy to use and fun to discover all the "delicious" (I just had to add this) offerings.

Method 6 - You too can Youtube

I had not gone actively searching at the site until this exercise, however this is not, of course, the first time I have seen a Youtube video.  I have had friends and family asked me "hey, have you seen this…?" and sent me a link to some funny video.  There is so much to watch and I found variety of videos from independent music, commercials, and classical television.  I became pretty captivated with Youtube.  I spent several hours just going through watching one video that lead to another video that lead to another.  Just one of the purely frivolous videos that are available is this clip from classic Sesame Street.  I grew up watch this show and it was fun to revisit my childhood.  I am still a big fan.  Enjoy!

Beside the just entertaining silliness, there are some extremely useful and educational recording.  For example, I discovered a video on how to deal with difficult patrons.  Furthermore, I do think that this is great way for libraries to promote themselves and their services in a popular and cutting edge format.  Even with Youtube potential to offer an innovative mode of communicating the library's mission to possible non-library users, I highly recommend using some commonsense.  Anybody can post on this site and some things are just best not seen.  I will navigate this site carefully to avoid viewings I feel are inappropriate.  If utilized with caution, Youtube is worthwhile.