Monday, November 27, 2006
Week 4 Musings
I really like the idea of NetSnippets as described by Phil Bradby in the second of his 2 articles on web 2.0. Has anybody tried it yet? I've downloaded the software at home but I couldn't do it on my work laptop because the windows service pack is not up to date - typical. I'll try it on another work machine soon because I think it could really help with the presentation of literature search results.
As a library service we used to offer subject guides with information about useful websites. Our trust Intranet site also has many collections of "useful links" (most of them not set up by the library service). I think that a service such as furl or del.icio.us would be a modern alternative to these lists and would encourage user engagement and participation although I would want to retain some quality control over the resources being bookmarked. I know - I still keep failing to trust the user but then that was an issue also covered in the BMC Medical Education article which discussed wiki vandalism.
As a library service we used to offer subject guides with information about useful websites. Our trust Intranet site also has many collections of "useful links" (most of them not set up by the library service). I think that a service such as furl or del.icio.us would be a modern alternative to these lists and would encourage user engagement and participation although I would want to retain some quality control over the resources being bookmarked. I know - I still keep failing to trust the user but then that was an issue also covered in the BMC Medical Education article which discussed wiki vandalism.
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I tried Netsnippets.Before downloading Keepoint I was using Netsnippets only and I was satisfied with the functionality but User Interface which Keepoint is providing is excellent with the users point of view.Its so smooth I can't tell you.It took me only few minutes to get accustomed with its functioning.
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