Tagging

My competency this week deals with tagging. In my Facebook account, I have become accustomed to posting photos and tagging them. I also use goodreads to post and tag the books that I have read. I created a free LibraryThing account, which seemed like a mashup of the two services I was already familiar with. LibraryThing allows me to keep a personal page of books that I have read and lets me rate and review the materials. The fun part is that it is also a social site, so I can see tags and reviews other people have posted about a certain material, and my friends can also look at the entries on my page. To the left, you see a screenshot for the entry and tags I created for our class textbook. I tagged our book with the words "ISAR" and "textbook." ISAR describes that this book topic is on information storage and retrieval. I tagged it as a textbook because that is the purpose of the book for me. To the right, you should notice my shiny new widget, fresh from my LibraryThing account. Now you can keep up with my reading and tagging without even leaving this site! Below you will see the tag cloud for Chu's book.