Dear all, Thanks again for your contributions to last week's CIG Social Media e-forum. Please find the following links/resources: a) those mentioned during the e-forum, and b) a list of some essentials compiled by our guest moderator Nicola Osborne (special thanks to her again). A) Bookmarking: http://packrati.us/ <https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fpackrati.us%2F> http://ifttt.com/ <https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fifttt.com%2F> (more sophisticated) Social media guidelines/policies: http://edina.ac.uk/about/social_media/social_media_guidelines.html http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/ http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/use-and-relevance-web-20-researchers http://www.rin.ac.uk/tags/tags/web-20 Cataloguers Twitter lists: https://twitter.com/#!/HVCats/lists <https://twitter.com/#%21/HVCats/lists> https://twitter.com/#!/yo_bj/magical-metadata-fairies-8 <https://twitter.com/#%21/yo_bj/magical-metadata-fairies-8> https://twitter.com/#!/suchprettyeyes/cigseforum-socialmedia/members <https://twitter.com/#%21/suchprettyeyes/cigseforum-socialmedia/members> For training/events information, there are various CILIP and ALA accounts: @CILIPinfo, @CILIPRareBooks, @ALA_TechSource, @ALCTS_ARC Enhancing catalogues through social media/crowdsourcing (e.g. comments, ratings, reviews): Huddersfield Uni http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cls Victoria & Albert Museum's http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ Westminster public libraries http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/247/reviews/ Capturing and saving tweets for later: Storify http://storify.com/ CoverItLive http://www.coveritlive.com/ Aggregator blogs: http://catalogerrollcall.tumblr.com/ <https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalogerrollcall.tumblr.com%2F> http://planetcataloging.org/ <https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fplanetcataloging.org%2F> Social tagging in academic libraries: Presentation by Charlotte Smith from the CIG 2008 conference: http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/cataloguing-indexing/Pages/presentations.aspx#2008 <https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cilip.org.uk%2Fget-involved%2Fspecial-interest-groups%2Fcataloguing-indexing%2FPages%2Fpresentations.aspx%232008> Video from the Cambridge Librarian TeachMeet about Jo Harcus work at Anglia Ruskin Uni: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LjRe3inLM <https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dd9LjRe3inLM> BIALL for law librarians has a "how do I wiki?": http://biallpr.pbworks.com/w/page/5259189/How%20do%20I <https://service.gmx.net/de/cgi/derefer?TYPE=3&DEST=http%3A%2F%2Fbiallpr.pbworks.com%2Fw%2Fpage%2F5259189%2FHow%2520do%2520I> B) http://academia.edu/ http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home http://www.authorstream.com/ http://bit.ly http://www.coveritlive.com/ http://creativecommons.org/ http://www.flickr.com/commons/ http://docs.google.com/ https://plus.google.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/ http://mashable.com/ http://prezi.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/ http://edina.ac.uk/about/social_media/social_media_guidelines.html http://stori.fy http://www.tweetdeck.com/ http://www.twitter.com http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cls http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ http://visibletweets.com/ http://wordle.net Best wishes for success and/or fun with these from all of us! -- Mrs Esther Arens 15 Rockery Close Leicester LE5 4DQ Tel.: (+44) (0)116 3191977 email: [log in to unmask]