Social Bookmarking Tagging

Wow, what a whirlwind of social software technology we have
looked at in the past 14 weeks. While all of these technologies have some use
in a library setting, some are more conducive to the library environment than
others. I really like the ideas we looked at with media sharing, as I think
this is a medium where libraries can really show how far they have come and use
media sharing as a great marketing tool to show your library to the world. This
also seems like an easily implemented medium, as most (if not all) libraries

From our first class, I signed up for an account with del.icio.us, but was still vague of its definition and uses.  For example I thought that because I had a personal account, this information was private.   Hammond et al. provided a useful explanation of how, why, and what tagging and social bookmarking is.  I enjoyed learning about the difference of tagging as a free-structured approach that uses folksonomy to the controlled vocabulary I learned about in previous semesters.