This week's asignment was back to complicated for me again.
I had to download QuickTime Player in order to view the Technorati tutorial, which in turn switched all my Media Player files into Quicktime, which I didn't really want to happen.
Technorati does seem like a great site and I loved the tutorial, as I am really a visual learner. Seeing the facilitator naviagte through the site was really helpful. As I navigated through the site itself, it seemed vaguely familiar to me. I think it might be a little like Bloglines, from Assignment #4. ish? All of these sites are kind of blurring together for me, so I really do hope that I will have time to use them each more and learn about what makes one better or more usable than the other. It's all about finding the extra time!!!
When I created a Delicious account, I was asked if I wanted to import my existing bookmarks, which I did, but didn't really know what I was doing when I did that. Now I have this Delicious feature come up everytime I open Internet Explorer and it is a great tool, don't get me wrong, but I feel like I really have no idea how to use it properly (yet). Once more, hopefully time to practice will help me learn what it is really about. I am a little leery about the feature in Delicious that allows you to view anyone else' s bookmarks and comments who has book marked the same site as you and allows others to view yours. One of those personal security/ information issues. Maybe there are ways to not allow others to view your bookmarks, but I wouldn't be sure how to go about getting that done.
So to complete this assignment and answer the question of the week: "Would Delicious be useful for my organisation?", I would say probably not, unless all staff had a good understanding of it and used it for the purpose of helping our clients to find employment information. It could be a useful tool to find additional websites that we might not have known about or to see what others think of sites, but overall, I think I would be more inclined to use it for personal reasons more so than work.
I am happy about next week's break. I think I'll use the time to practice what we've learned so far and hopefully learn to use these sites as they are meant to be used.
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Perhaps you could use Delicious to bookmark all the employment help websites you use so that they are all in one place and can be easily opened/ amended on any computer? And, not all of these tools will be useful for every organization. But, now that you are familiar with them, as you develop future projects these resources will be at your disposal!
Jenny.
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