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11. Technorati and blog tags
So now that you’ve been blogging for awhile, you might be wondering just how big the blogosphere is? Well according to Technorati, the leading search tool and authority for blogs, the number of blogs doubles just about every 6 months with over 51 million blogs currently being tracked by the site. If the blogging trend continues, it is estimated that Technorati will tracked its 100 millionth blog in just 5 months.
Yes, these numbers are astounding, but as you’ve already seen for yourselves, blogging is so easy that these publishing tools are being taken advantage of by almost every industry, including libraries.
So how does a person get their blog listed as part of the blogosphere and how can you tag your posts with keywords to make them more findable through a Technorati search? The answer to the first question is that you’re blog is probably already being captured by Technorati due to the fact that your already using Blogger, the most popular blogging tool. But if you want to join the party and have your blog officially listed on Technorati and also take advantage of the watchlist and other features, you’ll need to claim your blog yourself. As for tagging posts with Technorati tags? This is easy too. All you need to do is add a little bit of HTML code to the bottom of your post (see me example below) and Technorati will pick up these tags when it spiders (or web crawls) your site.
There’s a lot of new features that have been added to Technorati this past summer including new ways to search for blogs. You can search for keywords in blog posts, search for entire blog posts that have been tagged with a certain keyword, or search for blogs that have been registered and tagged as whole blogs about a certain subject (like photography or libraries).
Discovery Resources:
Technorati Tour – videocast of new features & new look
Technorati Discover & Popular features
Discovery Exercise:
There's a lot to explore.
Technorati Tag: MRRL2.0
(created by entering <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/MRRL2.0" rel="tag">MRRL2.0</a> into the Edit HTML pane in Blogger - try it yourself!)
Yes, these numbers are astounding, but as you’ve already seen for yourselves, blogging is so easy that these publishing tools are being taken advantage of by almost every industry, including libraries.
So how does a person get their blog listed as part of the blogosphere and how can you tag your posts with keywords to make them more findable through a Technorati search? The answer to the first question is that you’re blog is probably already being captured by Technorati due to the fact that your already using Blogger, the most popular blogging tool. But if you want to join the party and have your blog officially listed on Technorati and also take advantage of the watchlist and other features, you’ll need to claim your blog yourself. As for tagging posts with Technorati tags? This is easy too. All you need to do is add a little bit of HTML code to the bottom of your post (see me example below) and Technorati will pick up these tags when it spiders (or web crawls) your site.
There’s a lot of new features that have been added to Technorati this past summer including new ways to search for blogs. You can search for keywords in blog posts, search for entire blog posts that have been tagged with a certain keyword, or search for blogs that have been registered and tagged as whole blogs about a certain subject (like photography or libraries).
Discovery Resources:
Technorati Tour – videocast of new features & new look
Technorati Discover & Popular features
Discovery Exercise:
- Take a look at Technorati and try doing a keyword search for “Learning 2.0” in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. Are the results different?
- Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Is anything interesting or surprising in your results?
- Create a blog post about your discoveries on this site.
OPTIONAL: If you're up for a challenge, learn how tag your posts by with Technorati tags so they can join tag searches. Create a post about something. It can be anything you want and add the HTML code to the bottom to tag it as “MRRL2.0” You may also want to consider claiming your blog and creating a watchlist.
NOTE: When adding HTML code, you'll want to make sure you're in Blogger's Edit HTML window.
There's a lot to explore.
Technorati Tag: MRRL2.0
(created by entering <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/MRRL2.0" rel="tag">MRRL2.0</a> into the Edit HTML pane in Blogger - try it yourself!)
10. Tagging
Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content (webpages, pictures & posts). Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines (i.e.Library of Congress subject headings), tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want.
This week, in addition to exploring Technorati and LibraryThing tagging, we want to also take at popular social bookmarking site called Del.icio.us (typed in as http://del.icio.us/).
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page add tags to categorize your bookmarks. MRRL uses de.icio.us to manage the Reference Links section of our website, so MRRL has a del.icio.us account that you can use to explore the social networking parts of the site.
Many users find that real power of Del.icio.us is in the social network aspect, which allows you to see how other users have tagged similar links and also discover other websites that may be of interest to you. You can think of it as peering into another users’ filing cabinet, but with this powerful bookmarking tool each user's filing cabinet helps to build an expansive knowledge network.
For this exercise, you are asked to take a look at Del.icio.us and learn about this popular bookmarking tool.
Resources:
Exercise:
This week, in addition to exploring Technorati and LibraryThing tagging, we want to also take at popular social bookmarking site called Del.icio.us (typed in as http://del.icio.us/).
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page add tags to categorize your bookmarks. MRRL uses de.icio.us to manage the Reference Links section of our website, so MRRL has a del.icio.us account that you can use to explore the social networking parts of the site.
Many users find that real power of Del.icio.us is in the social network aspect, which allows you to see how other users have tagged similar links and also discover other websites that may be of interest to you. You can think of it as peering into another users’ filing cabinet, but with this powerful bookmarking tool each user's filing cabinet helps to build an expansive knowledge network.
For this exercise, you are asked to take a look at Del.icio.us and learn about this popular bookmarking tool.
Resources:
- Otter Group Del.icio.us tutorial (12 min video) - Highly recommended!!!
- Us.ef.ul: A beginners guide to Del.icio.us
- Several Habits of wildly successful Del.icio.us users
Exercise:
- View the 12 minute Del.icio.us tutorial to get a good overview of its features.
- Take a look around Del.icio.us using the MRRL2 account that was created for this course (notice the links to the sites used in this course!)
- Explore the site options and try clicking on a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by a lot of other users. Can you see the comments they added about this bookmark or the tags that they used to catgorized this reference by?
- Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool.
Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?
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