For this post I spoke with Samuel and Peter Kruizinga about their social bookmarking experiences. Peter and a colleague set up the social bookmarking application in the Research and Development department using an Open Source tool.  Several people had used public social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us MORE >>

Allyson Kapin, co-founder of  the Rad Campaign , and I had the opportunity to record a Social Good podcast with Allison Fine for the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the demise of Delicious and the issues that arise when free tools disappear. social bookmarking social mediaYou can listen to the podcast here. MORE >>

Information Wants To Be Free A librarian, writer, educator and tech geek reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Home About me Contact me CV Book Website Presentations SJSU Class Meredith Farkas Librarian, writer, teacher and tech geek. Home | Social software metapost » Leaving del.icio.us MORE >>

Luckily these were tools/services that I’d tried out but wasn’t dependent on for providing services to my patrons. While they tried to restore the database, they failed, and now they’re going to start from scratch (though I can’t imagine who would trust them with their bookmarks now!). bookmarks — done !). MORE >>

report, we created visual representations to help explain how the most important social media tools can be applied inside organizations. The diagram below was used in the chapter on social bookmarking, which was designed to accompany the detailed coverage in the report, but it is hopefully fairly self-explanatory! tools. MORE >>