May+23rd+Notes

=Debrief Tagging Exercise= =May 23rd=

1. Just Three Words About Tagging
fun easy useful interesting helpful clarifying thought provoking enjoyable powerful connected potential helpful share feedback from others frustrating potentially useful

2. Reflections: Why Useful
It is easy and after bookmarking a few tags, got even easier The experience of seeing other resources or tags that you hadn't thought about You feel connected to other people in your circle via the tag Tagging makes it easy to share Tagging makes resources discoverable Enjoying reading other people's bookmarks, living vicariously through other's tags
 * Fun**

My own bookmarks in my favorite's list was getting messy and I haven't used them I could actually find stuff in del.icio.us - Added benefit of being able to go to any computer and find my resources The mobility is great, much better than slips of paper Got more useful after playing with the del.icio.us bundling feature (able to regroup in categories) The bundling feature helped me clarify my thoughts
 * Useful**

People use a combination of careful tagging while in the moment of discovery, others don't and circle back to do clean up. Intention is important - when intentionally researching a topic, more careful about selecting tag words and annotations like using index cards in the library to take notes Knowing that other people might be reading the tag stream, either colleagues or others, more careful about annotation Use it as part of the blogging publishing process - capture something I want to write about or put on linkblog. The act of publishing tagged resources make the tagger more careful
 * Some are careful others come back and clean up**

Tag maintenance is needed, particularly merging tags or search and replace The bundling feature is important to learn how to use if you don't want to deal with a long list of tags It takes time to do maintenance
 * Tag maintenance tasks are important**

Look at how other people have tagged an item and use those words Consistency issue a problem - should I use hyphens or not Best practice seems to be to use a lot of words to describe something so you have the best chance of re-finding it later Intentional thinking about my work topics and later retrieval Found it useful to add keywords that match my work programs Adds to the notes, 'what am I thinking about right now" to remind myself how I might use it later Some feel validated when they tag a resource that many other people have tagged
 * In the moment of tagging**

Del.icio.us interface isn't the clearest Pointers to other screencasts not as helpful
 * Frustrating**

Switch from bookmarking stuff to tagging - Just do It, Like Nike! First impulse was to add something to favorites, but no longer and I happy with myself! Habit at looking at feed of network RSS feed in del.iciou.us Knowing other people are reading it, so will take the time to do it. Helps to have colleagues on staff or workgroup also using it.
 * How to make it a habit**


 * Three Words About Tagging**

explore more network consistency promising focus diversify connect organize better share network import connect share opportunity better motivated