Using Social Bookmarking and Personal Start Pages

Emily Hopkins – NHS North West

Kieran Lamb – Liverpool PCT

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking?

• Online store of bookmarks that can be shared with others

• Tagging creating effective folksonomy on wider scale, ontology on a local scale

• Generate extremely precise RSS with multiple entry points allowing maximum ROI per tag.

Potential Tools

• Delicous

• Diigo

• Digg

• Newsvine

• Many, many others!

Diigo

• Toolbar

• Bookmarklet

• Simple vocabulary control

• RSS for each tag

• Snapshots to archive pages

• Groups

Personal Start Pages

RSS Problem

• IE6 Predominates still in the NHS despite recent guidance

• Aggregators a hassle for library users

• RSS is still geek technology – it remains remarkably usual to talk to somebody in an IT department who doesn’t know what RSS is!

Personal Start Page Solution

• Netvibes

• Pageflakes

• iGoogle

• MyYahoo

• Many others.....

Why use personal start pages?

• Librarian control of content in negotiation with users

• Simplifies RSS use

• Allows use of work done elsewhere to reduce overall workload and maximise ROI.

?....and now to create some content and a personal start page