I started this "Thing" with the thought that this was a great idea!! There are so many sites that I have bookmarked at home and at school, and I can never remember where I have them marked. In the past, when I was at home looking for school stuff I would keep an e-mail in-progress that I just kept loading with URLs for the sites I wanted at school and then when I was done, I would send the e-mail to my school account. The same for searching stuff at school for home use (although I would never use school time to look for something other than school stuff ;) ).
So, I watch the video, and read the first article and think this will be easy. I can do this. I love the idea of tags to help sort the links. It is all great until I read the 13 Tips for Effective Tagging. I found the information to be interesting and useful, but it made the whole idea of tagging the sites sound way more complicated than was previously described. I am hoping when I explore the next "Thing" that I will get a better feel of how to do this.
I would agree that it is important to put some thought into the tags you make for your found sites. Not only do they need to be helpful to you (so you can find them later) but so they will be useful for others who may be looking for the same things you are. I would hope that when I am using other's tags they would have put in as much thought too.
Like I said, I love the idea of having an open list of websites that others can see, and I will be able to see what others have found. Sometimes I have a hard time searching because I have an idea of what I want to find, and I know it must be out there somewhere (everything is, right?), but I can't seem to come up with the right terms to search for. I hope that using tags will help me narrow my search to what I am really looking for.
On to the next "Thing"...
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