Category Archives: Module 2

Module 2: Social Networking

Posted on 01/06/2011 by dhoneybone

The Comscore article emphasises the need for companies to market effectively and understand and engage and interact with an audience who spend considerable time using social network channels. The eMarketer data is something that academic libraries have been aware of … Continue reading →

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Module 2: Mashups

Posted on 30/05/2011 by dhoneybone

Mashups are interactive Web 2.0 applications that utilise content retrieved from external data sources to create new and innovative services Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) The API permits web communities to create an open architecture for sharing content and data. As … Continue reading →

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Module 2: Tagging

Posted on 30/05/2011 by dhoneybone

What value does a user-generated folksonomy offer in comparison with a taxonomy designed by information professionals? What is a Folksonomy? Informal tags created by communities of users of such sites as Flickr and Delicious to enable content searching. Created by … Continue reading →

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Module 2: Blogs and Microblogging

Posted on 29/05/2011 by dhoneybone

Blogs Simple and prolific. Adopted by subject librarians in university libraries with mixed results due to content and frequency of posts. I chose WordPress to host my Online Learning Journal based on a seminar I attended whilst at RMIT where … Continue reading →

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