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Best Practices:

I’ve listed some of these before, but for the record, here are my best practice suggestions. Some of them will apply to all social software, others to one specific type.

So much to talk about! Some of the libraries we’ve looked at in our case studies have done great things with social software that I think add real value to library services. Among the projects that seem the most useful are:

After reading through this week’s material a few things come to mind. First of all, as Ellyssa Kroski explains, folksonomies won’t replace LC classification for traditional libraries. But since the web would be impossible to classify in this traditional way, folksonomies are pretty handy. What they lose out on in hierarchical searching, they make up for by simply getting the job done.

Why
did we Choose Furl?

After surveying a number of different
software options, including del.icio.us, connotea, citeulike and Zotero, we
settled on furl. It has the cleanest interface, and offers the right blend of
2.0 technology and traditional search capability.

Interface

Until next week, Andrea

Talk to you all next week...

Like many others, I was very confused by the Dublin library page -and had to take time to orient myself. Another thing I couldn't help noticing was how big the PageFlakes logo was, as compared with the Dublin library logo. This makes it difficult to know where you are.