Connecting East

For this week’s tasks, click the button below. Please read on for more information.

This week we are going to look at the power of social bookmarking. Signing up is one thing, but actually getting the full value is another!

This week we want you to explore the following:

The more people you add to your network, the easier it is find new and interesting sites to bookmark. We already know a lot of East staff who have signed up to Delicious, so adding them to your network is important.

We add tags to each site we bookmark so we can find it again easily. Each site can have numerous tags.

Explore the beauty of tag clouds such as the one I created below of my top 10 tags on Delicious, using wordle. You can see a tag cloud of your tags on Delicious (which is explained in the Apprentice challenge).

If you are ready for this week’s challenges, click the button below.

Thanks for the fantastic turnout for our first Fruity Friday! I said to Katie, “What if noone shows up?”, but you managed to allay my fears.

Welcome to the following

individuals:

brouwc
mandy0305
wgl
karlibaba
WLIAO
alyssafraser
BexDrummond
DMErichards
liyan123
Artrocks
ransonc
wigwamforagoose
MrWhitehouse
hamishbetts
vanderheijden
ojokins
jazzmaggie
singaporeLouise
andreak2
hbettsnz

plus the two of us:  klandmiles and TheLibrarianEdge

[updated 16 Jan 08]

Click on any of the names above to see the bookmarks they’ve collected so far.

We know there are more of you out there, and we will add to this list as information comes to hand!

We hope you are going to enjoy your social bookmarking experience. Why not add them to your network? Follow the steps below:

Reminder, signing up for a task is only one part of your challenge. You need to find some interesting pages and tag them with the tag ‘connectingeast’ so we can see them.

If you haven’t yet got around to it, there’s plenty of time to complete the tasks. We post new tasks each Tuesday, but you can complete them at your own pace. There is also a holiday coming up should you need extra time…!

Remember, Katie and I are available for Fruity Fridays at 7:15am, but please feel free to contact us at any stage to arrange an alternative time. We are more than happy to help you in any way.