Add This Widgets (RSS/Bookmarking)

I guess these have been around for a while, but I only noticed them this week on Time.com.

The Add This widgets are fantastic way to offer subscription and bookmarking features on your blog without having to create separate buttons for each RSS reader or social bookmarking system you want to include.

The widgets are easy to set up and customized, and then you just copy/paste the resulting code. Clicking the button takes your user to a page where they can select one of 22 web-based or desktop reader. The widget is available in two versions: bookmark the entire site or bookmark a particular entry--with 30 social bookmarking sites to choose from.

The code for the RSS and "Bookmark this site" widgets was placed in the Subscribe HTML/Javascript page element in New Blogger. The code for "Bookmark this blog entry" got pasted into the template with no problems.

With an account, one can: 1) get some user statistics for each page that uses one of the widgets, or 2) customize the Add This screens to bypass the prompt pages and go right to subscribing to the feed or bookmarking the page.

Tagging in Compendex/EiVillage2

Along with 'Blog This' and the RSS feeds for search alerts, we now have tagging in Compendex. The rep who visited last week pointed out that it had just gone live. Not sure if it's in Inspec since we get that through Ovid.

To tag anything, you must first create a profile in Compendex. Once on a single record view, you get the option to tag the citation, with a choice of selecting public, private or institutional tags as well as posting the citation to del.icio.us. You can also select the Tags + Groups tab to search or browse articles by the tags other users have already created.