Delicious, the social bookmarking site has been extremely advantageous to my project progress. I was struggling with finding appropriate literature to support my theses, then I went on delicious and typed in ‘tags’ for the categories I wanted to search, and suddenly I was presented with a basis to start searching for more literature. The ability to create a network also makes it easier to find websites/literature. Adding people to my network with similar interests to me meant that I could easily search through their bookmarks and find interesting links to work that relate to mine. For example through Rosina Andrews delicious bookmarks I found a number of articles that helped me with research for my project and literature review. In appreciation for finding useful bookmarks through Rosina’s delicious I used the ‘inbox’ tool and sent Rosina links to articles I have found and tagged which I thought may help her.
I did a literature search by reading books and photocopying pages, to find the literature I want at anytime requires a lot more searching and organisation in order to make the search for it easier than using delicious. In fact I bookmarked the books I have hard copies of on delicious so that I can search through them more easily.
When presented with the fact I had to use internet sites to fulfil my project criteria I was not happy, part in due to my techno-phobe nature and lack of knowledge, and also because I already had a set way in which to organise my work/findings. However I am extremely grateful that I have been forced to get to grips with delicious because it has been helpful to the nth degree!
If you want to go to the site just click on the title of this post, my username is simply; Alys Spencer.
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