RSS Feeds Learning Social Information Management
PrintI've been using del.icio.us (social bookmarking site) for the last three years to bookmark and share what I find interesting on the net. Also, I use it as my primary search tool. Google/Yahool are great for the generic stuff but for the meaningful stuff I use del.icio.us. Why? Easy, most of the bookmarks to web pages are intelligently filtered, noted, and tagged. Plus, I can find and make connections with others.
Social Bookmarking is one of the easiest tools for users to adopt. It only takes a few people to build up an incredibly rich library of links, tags, notes and intersections.
Although, the mainstream doesn't think so.
"Discovering versus teaching principles of social information management" by Jon Udell, is part of a discussion on why del.icio.us has not yet made it to the mainstream.
Jon, "In response to Josh Catone’s observation that del.icio.us has failed to go mainstream, Richard Ziade offers three hypotheses:
- Nobody really needs a way to centrally store their bookmarks
- Most people don’t understand what del.icio.us does
- People don’t feel compelled to share del.icio.us with others
The winning explanation, I am sure, is #2. Nobody understands what
del.icio.us does. I am constantly explaining the nature and value of
its social information management capabilities."
Here's a how-to video on del.icio.us and social bookmarking.
We use some of the leading open-source web 2.0 and social software applications, which are trusted by 10,000's of sites worldwide, to deliver great business benefits.
Social Content is extending
Social Content is extending to all forms of content, not just the traditional tagging and comments based content but also online directories, jobs boards, classifieds, wine, etc. you name it. And in the form of wikis you have a movement which is looking to put most reference information online.
At Emojo we're continuously rolling out new interfaces for managing social content to meet an ever more diverse set of requirements.
SIM and user managed metadata
The ideas of social information management are much broader than social bookmarking. They also encompass, tagging, profiles, privacy, and sharing of the users own data.
Consider, Esther Dyson's post about, advertising and user-managed metadata.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-dyson/release-09-dont_b_85822.html
"Now consider the other end of the spectrum: the new world of social networks, user-generated content and metadata. These aren't the "walled gardens" of yore, controlled spaces offered by outfits such as AOL. These are walled gardens custom-made by users for themselves.
Facebook, unwittingly or on purpose, has been teaching people to manage their own data about themselves. While Facebook's launch of the Beacon user-as-product-shill service was a PR fiasco, it familiarized millions of users with the notion that they can control information about themselves online and determine to whom it is visible. What might seem a horribly complex and tedious task to their elders - categorizing "friends," managing newsfeeds, handling intersecting communities of contacts - feels natural to the Facebook users of today. They want more granularity of control, not less. "