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Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

About Bookmarks &

Global Collaboration

Michel Wesseling & Richard Lalleman

16 October 2008





Bookmarks

Favourites

Triggers


Different occurrences


Bookmarks Personal use

Browser specific

Stored on your workstation

No search on keywords or tags

No sharing with others


View This?


Social Bookmarks

Personal choices and tags

24 * 7 availability around the www

Searchable by keywords / tags

Shared with groups or completely

public

Influences search engines ranking


Delicious?


Some aids


Focuss.Info Promote social bookmarking among

workers and scholars in global

development arena:

Publish articles

Organise local workshops

Present at relevant conferences

It is about People!


So: who benefits?


Search

Social bookmark sites disadvantage:

Search by tags only

Not in sites content


Our own search engine? Google like search capabilities

Own selection of e-resources

Harvest social bookmarks

Not limited to one social bookmark site!


Our own search engine? Built it our selves: too much work

Google introduces CSE

Fits our needs

No local development and maintenance


Focuss.Info website


www.eldis.org


http://home.planet.nl/~rood0114/


Focuss.Info Make use of Google CSE technology

Harvest social bookmark sites of workers in

the global development arena

Promote search engine / search box on

websites

Integrate Focuss.Info in information literacy


So: who benefits?


Collaborate

People with same (professional)

interests

Convince them of the importance of

social bookmarking for themselves and

their peers

Use and re-use existing knowledge

~40.000 sites selected


Collaborate

Librarians and information

professionals

Faculty and students

Professionals in the field

Organisations


Collaborate

Convince people

Learn how to work with the tools

Repeat


People and Organisations


Around the World



Less & Better?

Posted by Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, Web Search Infrastructure Team Google, on

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html


Less & Better!


So: who benefits?


A Future?

Marketing is needed

Involve more people and organisations

Organise workshops and training

The business plan is available

The search for sponsors has begun!


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► Further readings:

Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Knowledge sharing through collaboration in development studies: The Focuss.Info Initiative, Information Development, 24(2), pp. 151-155

Lalleman, R. and Wesseling, M. (2008) Community contributed content and global studies research, Global-e: A global studies journal, 2(1), available at:

http://global-ejournal.org

Matthews, P. and Wunder, A. (2007) Evaluation of Google Co-op and Social Bookmarking at the Overseas Development Institute, www.web2fordev.net/

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