We've been using del.icio.us as a group in IS for quite some time now and I use it personally. I have to admit that although I do occasionally tag things for the IS account, I rarely use it and only then if I remember that I tagged site earlier -- I don't look to see if anyone else has added something that might be useful to what I am doing at the moment. "Doing at the moment" ... maybe that's it. I can see using it with co-workers if we had a singular mission (if we were a bunch of teachers or forensic scientists or environmentalists) and we were tagging things work-related, but we have an entire universe of topics that may come across our desks and the thought that the few of us might have tagged just the site I need to answer a particular question just doesn't occur to me. Also, the randomness of the tags always leaves me feeling that I might just be missing the right one -- what did they call it and how was it spelled?
I have found some good sites by surfing other users' tagged sites but found even single users are inconsistant in their tagging. Using children and kids for seemingly the same types of sites does not group the sites for the future -- one needs to remember what one used as a tag last time to make it useful. Merged words and underscores further muddy the puddle. It makes me yearn for some standards, some rules, some list of agreed upon tags ... oh, there I go, thinking like a librarian.
Friday, May 23, 2008
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