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Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

About Bookmarks &

Global Collaboration

Michel Wesseling & Richard Lalleman

16 October 2008

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Bookmarks

Favourites

Triggers

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Different occurrences

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Bookmarks Personal use

Browser specific

Stored on your workstation

No search on keywords or tags

No sharing with others

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View This?

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

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

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Delicious?

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Some aids

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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!

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

So: who benefits?

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Search

Social bookmark sites disadvantage:

Search by tags only

Not in sites content

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Our own search engine? Google like search capabilities

Own selection of e-resources

Harvest social bookmarks

Not limited to one social bookmark site!

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

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

Google introduces CSE

Fits our needs

No local development and maintenance

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Focuss.Info website

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www.eldis.org

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

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

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

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

So: who benefits?

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

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

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Collaborate

Librarians and information

professionals

Faculty and students

Professionals in the field

Organisations

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Collaborate

Convince people

Learn how to work with the tools

Repeat

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People and Organisations

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Around the World

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

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

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

Less & Better!

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

So: who benefits?

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

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!

Focuss.Info: About Bookmarks and Global Collaboration

► www.focuss.info► ask@focuss.info

► 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/