Social Media & Delicious

This week's session was centered around social media. I have to say that after keeping countless links organized I have finally found the answer. I am so happy to actually discover what social media is all about. I am in the habbit of storing links involving seamstressing. What I think is wonderful is that many sources that I enjoy are from the United Kingdom. With social media and Delicious at work, I can soon be enjoying many of the links in one location and participate in sharing sources with others of the same interest from across the ocean. One hobby that I love to enjoy is ribbon embroidery. I think that it is such a beautiful art and nearly a lost one at that. I can find others interacting with obscur information that is remote in my area. It is wonderful to join people of like minds together on one thought. Keeping up-to-date with library information will also be much easier knowing where to look in the future. I have read the section on the difference between a category and a tag. This is very interesting to me and I look forward to learning more on how to more fully enjoy and utilize social media to organize information in today's world.
For those interested my Delicious url is: http://www.delicious.com/Tamara_Libr1. I have bookmarked my sites selected from chapter two for following. One of the sites chosen is Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki I like the organization that it exhibits on the right hand column for topical information. It will make researching much easier. It is divided into 4 sections: Introduction, Join the Community, Categories, and Need Help. There are 14 categories with the 12th category having 3 subcategories listed. It will be a nice change to perform research from tags instead of search engines.