15 Tag Based Sites

Exercises

  1. Log on to (or create) your delicious account.
    1. Searching
    2. You should check out the following features. These are great tools for finding random sites that are useful and interesting.
    3. Search delicious for terms related to your term project.
  2. Explore furl.
    1. Create an account.
    2. If you're working on your own computer, add the Furl bookmarklet to your toolbar.
    3. Watch the [Furl video tour.
    4. Go to some page (maybe the Ross BBA Web page and Furl it (save it to Furl).
    5. Features:
    6. Consider using Furl to help gather information for your project. You could tag the pages with a special project tag so that you could easily separate your project pages from all the other pages you furl.
  3. Explore Digg.
    1. Create an account.
    2. Install the Digg Firefox extension.
    3. Features:
    4. Go to the search page and try out searches for [carbon trading] (change location of terms; change where the searches come from; change sort order).
    5. Search digg for terms related to your term project.
  4. Explore StumbleUpon.
    1. Create an account.
    2. Watch the video intro.
    3. Go to the search page and search for terms related to your project. (Sort by rating and then by review.)
  5. Explore CiteULike.
    1. Create an account.
    2. Search for carbon trading.
      • Under “Groups interested in: carbon trading”, notice the link “Climate Change.” — click on it. This brings up 60+ articles that are directly related to climate change.
    3. Go to the search groups page. Search for energy.
    4. Search for terms related to your term project.
    5. Search for groups related to your term project.
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