This is something I have been considering for a while but was finally inspired into action by the KIN Quarterly workshop which I co-facilitated yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed the day: the presentations, the member case studies and the networking opportunities.
(For KIN members, all the material presented at the workshop and more besides can be found in the Quarterly workshop site on the memberspace - this site will be being updated over the next few days)
During one presentation, I was reminded that during a visit to a member organisation internal forum the previous week, I overheard one person there commenting that they had learnt one new thing: they had never before heard of 'Social Bookmarking' but were now going to try it. So I wondered if there were people in our audience that also had never heard of Social Bookmarking. (Or some of the other tools mentioned such as RSS. When I posted a poll in the memberspace, I did get a few people saying they had never heard of RSS)
So first of all, a link to one of my favourite sites, The Common Craft show:
Social Bookmarking in Plain English
And for those of you who would like to have a go:
- To visit the KIN group, go to: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups
/KIN - To join Ma.gnolia.com for free, just click the link http://ma.gnolia.com/join
First, create a Ma.gnolia account (if you don't already have one). Then click on the 'join' button at http://ma.gnolia.com/groups
You can see how I am using Ma.gnolia (not very much - yet!) at: http://ma.gnolia.com/people
So have a go, and let me know what you think !
2 comments:
Phil,
I'm a great believer in social software needing to be completely intuitive if it is to gain traction. I tried signing up for magnolia and got tied in knots (Yahoo IDs and other seemingly unnecessary security stuff). Eventually I gave up. Just as I gave up on Delicious. Sorry.
Hi Popsarmchair,
I am sorry you had problems signing up. The intention is that signing up to Ma.gnolia should be simple because you can use an existing account userid and password as authentication (Yahoo, Facebook etc or an OpenID account) rather than creating a whole new set of details. This is what they say on their help page:
"At Ma.gnolia, we think we all have too many website passwords to remember. Each new account with a new password is one more to remember, and one more that can be forgotten.
Ma.gnolia lets you join by using an existing identity from a website you already know and trust, like Facebook, Yahoo! or WordPress. You tell us the service to use and your ID (a name or URL), and that service will verify you and will never show your password to Ma.gnolia. After joining, you can use that same account to sign into Ma.gnolia. Spammers hate it; good, honest folks love it!
No new password, using a service you already trust. Join Ma.gnolia by signing in, and enjoy a safer and easier web."
Of course, if you don't have one of the Identities that they accept then you are required to create one. It's a pity that they don't make this more clear.
I am hopeful that one day all sites will accept OpenID, obviating the need to remember multiple userid and password combinations, so would recommend trying this if you don't already have an account with one of the other listed services
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