Dear IP SIG members and Interested Others, During the November IP SIG meeting at MCN, Pasadena, I volunteered to create a place on a social bookmarking site for SIG members (and others) to post and tag IP-related bookmarks. There is now a group called "MCN IP SIG" on the Ma.gnolia web site (http://www.ma.gnolia.com) for this purpose. I've already added and tagged about two dozen of my own IP web site bookmarks -- please feel free to add/tag yours as well.
For those not familiar with Ma.gnolia: "At Ma.gnolia, members save websites as bookmarks, just like in their browser. Except with a twist: they also "tag" them, assigning labels that make them easy to find again. So when you search for something, you use words that people choose and look only at websites that people think are worth saving. Suddenly you have access to a human-organized bookmark collection that numbers in the millions, but is as easy to use as a search engine." To add bookmarks to the MCN IP SIG group at Ma.gnolia, you'll need to create an account on the site (free), then join the MCN IP SIG group. When you add a new bookmark, be sure to save it to the MCN IP SIG group. The Ma.gnolia site has a great tutorial to help you along. It also offers a number of bookmarklets (mini programs you place in your web browser bar that let you add bookmarks to the group without interrupting your current web session - these too are explained in the tutorial.) The benefit of creating this group on behalf of the IP SIG is to faciliate sharing/searching of IP-based web resources that may be useful to SIG members (or anyone else interested in IP issues in museums). So please take a moment to join, add and tag bookmarks that you think are useful and, of course, search for IP web resources of interest. Best, Diane -- Diane M. Zorich Information Management Services for Cultural Organizations 113 Gallup Road Princeton, NJ 08542 USA Voice: 609-252-1606 Fax: 609-252-1607 Email: dzorich at mindspring.com
