Week 6, Exercise 13

I found the SJLearning del.icio.us site a bit overwhelming. Found that I understood the concept a better when I did my own search on a topic that interested me personally, which is marketing jewelry. Can certainly see the benefit of using compound tags to drill down specifically to what you want. "How to" gives you how to do everything in the universe, but "How to" + marketing + jewelry is far more productive. Clicking on tags another user assigned to the article is more likely to bring up other useful links than clicking on the other user. Found an online beading magazine that I bookmarked and I'll definitely be going back to explore more of the sites brought up by others tags for that site. Just for the heck of it, I googled the same string of words. The results were less useful overall, so I can definitely see the benefit of piggybacking on the sifting through the unnecessary or useless sites that someone else has already done. Seems only fair to share in turn.

Week 4, Exercise 9

I decided to check what was out there in the blogosphere about "library marketing." I found that Technorati yielded the most results that were right on point. At the other end of the spectrum, Topix.net was quite disappointing in that most of what it found were references to people who had "Library Marketing" in their title.

Here's what I added to my feeds today:
The "M" Word - Mareting Libraries
Library Marketing - Thinking Outside the Book
Library Videos - the best of...
Lib Talk Blog

To check them out for yourself, find the feed at: http://www.bloglines.com/public/playtowork

The biggest payoff came from a Google search on "library marketing" where I found this link: http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Marketing The site includes links to several blogs on the topic.

2/14/07 Update: May have to revise the above statement. Tried a search engine called blogsearch.google.com and found this del.icio.us site: http://del.icio.us/chrystiehill/lbc+marketing