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Share your Bookmarks!!

March 24, 2009 By

There’s a great online social bookmarking service that recently came to my attention (Diigo.com) that the CLENE community (and all interested in staff development and training) can use to share bookmarks of interest with each other

diigo logo

diigo logo

Playing around today, I set up a CLENERT group at: http://groups.diigo.com/groups/clenert and added a few of my own bookmarks.

Diigo has many nice features including:

  • RSS feed for new content (http://groups.diigo.com/rss/clenert/bookmark)
  • Ability to comment on and discuss bookmarks
  • Automatic caching of bookmarked pages!
  • Ability to view new bookmarks as a slideshow (great for those of us who are visual)
  • Browser based bookmarklet (which allows highlighting, commenting AND virtual sticky notes–so you can annotate those bookmarks!!)

If you want to try it, simply go to http://groups.diigo.com/groups/clenert, click join and add a few bookmarks.  I highly recommend adding the “diigolet” bookmarklet to your browser toolbar–it makes bookmarking and annotating a snap!!  If fact, Pandia Search Engine News just listed it as #1 among the top 5 bookmarking tools.

There are many more possibilities here… I think Diigo lends itself beautifully to collaborative working/learning projects.   So, whaddya all think?

Here’s a 4 minute intro video:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A]

(If video doesn’t play, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A)

Peter Bromberg

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Video intro to the new Webjunction

July 23, 2008 By

The new WebJunction is coming… and it looks hot! Check out this sneak preview guided tour led by Michael Porter and Dale Musselman. It’s very social networky, and I mean that in the best sense. Librarians familiar with Facebook will probably feel right at home.

If player isn’t working, go directly to: http://blip.tv/play/AwGN61M

Peter Bromberg

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The low tech on 2.0 tools

July 11, 2007 By

These tutorials have also made the rounds but are still worthy of note here for library training. It was Marianne Lenox’s Training 2.0 ning group that first turned me on to them. Produced by CommonCraft, they are called paperworks, a name whose appropriateness will be obvious as soon as you see one.

Currently, there are three of them: Wikis, RSS, and Social Networking –all of them “in plain English” and on plain white paper. I’m a great fan of low tech explanations of technology, not to mention the irony of using paper and crayon to explain electronic communication.

As the newest tutorial, Social Networking is not getting the rave responses of the previous two. Seems to be lacking that “wow!” factor. Is it perhaps that social networking is too complex for this format or, as one commenter suggests, it’s a no-brainer and doesn’t need a tutorial? I’ll let you decide.

Betha Gutsche

Betha Gutsche has been a virtual librarian ever since receiving her MLIS from the University of Washington Information School. Immersed in the online community of WebJunction, she has cultivated community connections through forums, live online events, and writing stories about the library community. She has delved into e-learning design, curriculum development, needs assessment, and all things connected to social learning in the online world. Betha is the editor-in-chief of the Competency Index for the Library Field. She is now the manager of Project Compass, a program working with public libraries to augment their service to communities impacted by tough times. Underneath it all, Betha is an artist and loves to raise awareness of visual literacy and introduce people to the power of image.

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