Social Bookmarking and RSS

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Social Bookmarking and RSS

• LSNTAP Online Training
• 19 July 2006

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Presenters

• Steve Gray
• Steve Gray is Technology Manager at Legal
  Services of South Central Michigan, as well as
  the curator of the LStech.org web site.
• Madhu Lakshmanan
• Madhu is a free-lance information architect and
  end-user advocate. She is also a content
  coordinator consultant for LSNTAP.

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Agenda

• Web 2.0 Whats the deal?
• Features
• Social Bookmarking
• Tagging
• Spotlight on Del.icio.us
• Use in NPOs
• Uses in Legal Services
• RSS
• What is it All About?
• Use in Legal Services
• Other Non-profit Uses

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Web 2.0 - Introduction

• No single definition for what makes a site a web
  2.0 site.
• It is not just using AJAX code or subtle colors
  and curved boxes in the design.
• Web 2.0 - a set of principles and practices
• Sites and web apps are Web 2.0 in varying degrees
  it seems to be a continuum not a yes/no value.

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Web 2.0 Some Features

• More user control of look and feel
• Online applications with increased use of
  scripting languages
• Designed for hackability and remixability
• Perpetual Beta
• Device, not only PC/Mac
• Lightweight, yet rich UI
• Harness collective intelligence
• Web 2.0 is using the web the way it was intended
  to be used Paul Graham

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Social Bookmarking Tagging

• Social Bookmarking is the concept of viewing and
  sharing bookmarks with others using the web as a
  medium. Tagging is a way of organizing and
  searching these links.
• A tag is a keyword or descriptive term associated
  with an item, an item can have more than one tag
  associated with it
• Allows classification/search in many different
  ways since each person may see the same thing in
  different ways
• Gmail uses labels in the same way
• Key component of social bookmarking, creating
  context and add organizational value

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Del.icio.us

• It is a social bookmarking web service for
  storing and sharing web bookmarks
• users can tag each of their bookmarks with a
  number of freely chosen keywords
• A combined view of everyone's bookmarks with a
  given tag is available e.g. the URL
  "http//del.icio.us/tag/lstech" displays all of
  the most recent links tagged lstech
• This feature can be used by organizations to
  create a set of common resources based on a tag
  that is unique to their members.
• RSS feeds of any tagged set are available to
  include on a website or feed-reader.

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Demo Del.icio.us -1
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Demo Del.icio.us -2 How to Bookmark
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Demo Del.icio.us -3

• Search
• Private saving of bookmarks use a group login
  to del.icio.us
• For username
• RSS feed

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Del.icio.us Navigation
Address bar or breadcrumbs
Every user has his or her own page for
bookmarks http//del.icio.us/grange Every tag
has its own page http//del.icio.us/tag/lstech Yo
u can view bookmarks by user and
tag http//del.icio.us/grange/ntaptraining View
bookmarks tagged RSS" and ntaptraining" (an
intersection) http//del.icio.us/tag/RSSntaptrai
ning View bookmarks tagged RSS" and
ntaptraining" by grange http//del.icio.us/grang
e/RSSntaptraining View bookmarks tagged
specifically for you http//del.icio.us/for Your
subscriptions http//del.icio.us/inbox
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Del.icio.us Tipsfrom http//slackermanager.com/20
05/12/the_several_hab.html

• Create many bookmarks
• Tag everything, clean up your tags periodically
• Use the Inbox
• Play around with compound terms and media types
  and file-types
• Track other users
• Subscribe to feeds
• Export, create tag clouds for your blog or
  website
• Explore new features are coming

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Can We Talk?How is/could the poverty law
community use Del.icio.us?Please type your
answers in the chat window.
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Social Bookmarking in NPOs

• Nptech tag on del.icio.us
• - Using the free online social bookmarking tool,
  Del.icio.us, any user can mark a web page for the
  attention of the nonprofit technology community
  by using the tag "nptech."
• - collaboration among individuals who are
  interested in information technology for NPOs
• Craft Emergency Relief Fund http//craftemergency.
  org/programs/prevention/preparedness
• - using bookmarks to populate links on their
  preparedness page.

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nptech tag
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Live Resource Page
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Social Bookmarking in NPOs -2Leukemia Lymphoma
Society

• They set up lots of tags relating to their
  mission and fundraising program.
• Are experimenting with them within their message
  boards and emails - the vision is that the
  "group" can collaborate together to create a much
  more robust and complete set of articles and
  resources in one place.
• They continue to experiment and play with tags,
  using them for a few months in conjunction with
  experiments on Squidoo to combine tag RSS feeds
  directly into their lenses.

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Lymphoma on Squidoo
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Social Bookmarking In Poverty Law Programs

• WorkGroups i.e. statewide taskforces
• Programs program bookmarks
• Experts like a blog for resources

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Poverty Law Workgroups
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Internal use in Poverty Law Programs
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Experts
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RSS

• Your own personal customized newspaper
• Information delivered to you
• Saves time
• Useful for Collaboration
• Track particular topic/source
• Suggested Reading list
• Everyone sees the same news
• Share with others through blog/website

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RSS Use in Legal Services

• Roll Your Own Poverty Law Newspaper
• Del.icio.us Feeds

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Can We Talk?How is/could the poverty law
community use RSS?Please type your answers in
the chat window?
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Poverty Law Newspaper
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Use in Statewide Websites
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RSS in Other NPOs

• RSS Grant Channel - http//news.gilbert.org/2004RS
  SGrantsChannels
• publication of structured announcements of
  grants made.
• Project VoteSmart http//www.vote-smart.org/rss.
  htm
• compiles information updates on the 20 most
  recent key votes going through Congress
• Handsnet now populated by content from various
  RSS feeds.

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HandsNet
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RSS and Del.icio.us
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Resources

• Del.icio.us Tools http//www.quickonlinetips.com/a
  rchives/2005/02/absolutely-delicious-complete-tool
  s-collection/
• Choosing Effective del.icio.us Tags
  http//www.alexandrasamuel.com/20060310/update-cho
  osing-effective-delicious-tags
• Extended bookmarklets
• http//www.cs.ucf.edu/7Ecmillward/delish.php
• RSS Resources http//allrss.com/rssresources.html
• Delicious Tag for RSS http//del.icio.us/tag/RSS
• Delicious Tag for SocialBookmarking and LSTech
  http//del.icio.us/tag/SocialBookmarkingLSTech

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Questions?