These two tasks focused on the world of bookmarking and tags. The idea of bookmarking, is that you can bookmark a website, kinda like saving a site on to your favourites page on a browser. The difference here is because you do it on your own account, you would be able to access these bookmarks from anywhere and any computer that has an internet connection. I think that is a really useful tool, for personal use and for sharing certain sites with others, as it makes it easier for you to find them quicker and it means you don’t have to try to remember all of the websites that you want to access or show others.

I have never used this feature before, so all this was new to me. I started by signing in on the bookmarking site ‘delicious’. As I already have a Yahoo! account, I did not need to register a new account, so that was convenient. After that I have to say it was still relatively easy to use, I bookmarked 5 websites including the Library I work at (Bodleian Social Science Library). It was not difficult to add any tags either. I liked that when I added a website to my bookmarks, it provided me with some options of tags I could add. For example, when I added ‘ManicMuslim’ to my list of bookmarks, it automatically suggested tags such as ‘humour’, ‘blogging’, ‘Islam’ to name a few. I think this feature is very helpful.
This is a screenshot of my account at the moment:

Thing 10 was still related to social bookmarking and tagging, but focused more on how we can apply this feature to the world of libraries. I added the ‘Sainsbury Library’ to my network, which was straightforward to do. And finally, I added a user to my account too. The layout on delicious is good, as it makes it simple to switch between your own personal bookmarks and that of others (which are shown under the ‘network’ tab). Here is a screenshot of the bookmarks on my network currently:

Personally I think this is a useful tool in web 2.0, both for personal use and for work-related use. It would be very helpful to use as a sharing tool between libraries in OULS, so they can all benefit from each other’s help and new ideas.