Smore Delicious Tools

s’more delicious sites

TCLC Summer Camp

July 16, 2008

Lianne Hartman

Reference/Instruction Librarian

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Selecting Organizing Sharing

• del.icio.us– Website for online social bookmarking– You can integrate it with your browser

• Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)– Create mini-Internets of websites you choose– Get a search box into those sites

Social Bookmarking

Common Craft guys explain it better

www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Ei! Krumpelramson

Let’s Build It!• Open Firefox

• Go to delicious.com

• Click on Get Started or Register

• Register

• Wait on the first page

The Fine Art of Tagging

• Develop your own subject headings

• Tags can be anything: description, action, person

cambodia4kidsorg

Don’t be a Tag Hog! Share!

• Find out the username of the person next to you

• Tag a site with for:his/her name

hthg1983

gratuitous cute animal picture

Discovery• Use delicious to find sites

recommended by other people

• Search all tags on delicious

• Create a network to share with friends, family, colleagues, others with similar interests

Tagging in the Stacks

• Working with a student? Recommending a lot of sites?

- Tag them with the student’s name

• Standard URLs

• http://del.icio.us/GMCLibrarian/Barbara

• Courses, faculty members, who/what else?

Fancy delicious• RSS Feeds available for all of your tags

• RSS2HTML www.rss2html.com

• Use to create subject guides, course guides, etc.– Advantage: able to update on-the-fly– Disadvantage: time to set up initially

back at the library…• Open Firefox

– If you don’t have Firefox, go to getfirefox.com

• Go to delicious.com– Login with username/password you created

today– Go to Help– Select Firefox Bookmarks Extension

Summer Camp is In-Tents

Search me.• Create your own corner of the web

–Google Custom SearchGoogle.com/cse

–RollyoRollyo.com

Ultimate Recipe Search

• http://allrecipes.com/*

• http://foodnetwork.com/*

• http://epicurious.com/*ninahale

Let’s Customize!

http://www.google.com/cse

Why?• Already identified sites that are

useful

• Cut down number of results

• Guide students to resources you know will be helpful

Examples• Reeves Library @ Moravian College

http://home.moravian.edu/public/reeves/

research/web/websubject.htm• Education Research and Reports

http://tinyurl.com/6ccn7m

Thank you!

If you get stuck, let me know. I’d be happy to unstick you.

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