Event Recap and Video: Betsy Street and Steve Bigaj present on "Social Bookmarking"

Thanks to Betsy Street and Steve Bigaj for an interesting hour on the subject of how Delicious has helped them share resources across their organization.

Betsy started by telling us how she came across the social bookmarking concept in a presentation Jenny gave last year -- and realized how it could solve a persistent problem they had been having at the Monadnock Center for Successful Transitions. Then, as a short explanation of what social bookmarking is, she used the excellent Common Craft video explanation:



Steve talked about some of the challenges of using Delicious with users that aren't always that tech-savvy. The one thing he kept coming back to as they built out their Delicious resource collection was idea in the Common Craft video that it was about sharing information in a networked way. As he pointed out:

"Those lines between all the people in that video? That's what we do."

We are not able to get video of the whole presentation, since we captured some people in portions who requested not have their image posted to YouTube. In the future we are looking at designating "no shoot" zones so that we can make sure to capture larger portions, and also to get the technology together to capture the presenter's screen.

The session was very well attended, with a capacity crowd for the room, and many expressed interest in getting additional information on social bookmarking. Thanks to Jenny, Steve and Betsy for putting this together.