15 Tag Based Sites
Exercises
- Log on to (or create) your delicious account.
- Searching
- Search everybody's bookmarks for carbon trading. You just want these two words to appear somewhere in the title, description, or tag.
- Search everybody's bookmarks for carbontrading.
- Now repeat the search so that [carbontrading] must be a tag for a bookmark. You do this by putting "tag:", with no space, before the search term.
- Search everybody's bookmarks for [carbon trading], where both words have to be tagged.
- You should check out the following features. These are great tools for finding random sites that are useful and interesting.
- Search delicious for terms related to your term project.
- Searching
- Explore furl.
- Create an account.
- If you're working on your own computer, add the Furl bookmarklet to your toolbar.
- Watch the [Furl video tour.
- Go to some page (maybe the Ross BBA Web page and Furl it (save it to Furl).
- Features:
- Popular bookmarks (change the time period with the drop-down menu; add a topic filter, too)
- Hot topics
- Check out the business hot topic.
- Latest bookmarks (add a topic filter)
- 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.
- Explore Digg.
- Create an account.
- Install the Digg Firefox extension.
- Features:
- Popular diggs (change the time period)
- Popular diggs under "World & Business/ Business & Finance" (change the time period)
- In the first article, click on the “comments” and read a few of them. (I wasn't that impressed with how useful these might be…)
- 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).
- Search digg for terms related to your term project.
- Explore StumbleUpon.
- Create an account.
- Watch the video intro.
- Go to the search page and search for terms related to your project. (Sort by rating and then by review.)
- Explore CiteULike.
- Create an account.
- 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.
- Go to the search groups page. Search for energy.
- Search for terms related to your term project.
- Search for groups related to your term project.
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