Awhile back I introduced the notion of Tag Drafting as a way to think about adding efficiency to online information consumption…via topic drafting and/or author drafting. I’m still very sold on this model in terms of how you might apply it to drive high quality content filtration to online conversations – in fact, I’m drafting every day on the topics that interest me most.
Lots to discuss here in the future about rating, reputation, voting, and social Bookmarking tools – various combinations of which offer community managers a number of new ways to improve communities both for the most active participants and equally importantly the drive-by participants or "silent searchers."
Sue Waters at Mobile Technologies in TAFE took the topic a little further in a good explanation at this link of RSS Drafting. She was kind of enough to send me a link to extisp.icio.us.
For those inclined to like the idea of tag drafting, this cool little tool gives you a navigable visualization diagram of a tagger’s tags in delicious. Have a look at my visualization: http://kevan.org/extispicious.cgi?name=seanodmvp. Obviously I have a few topics I predominately tag about 
But you get the idea.
It’s my belief that people who share one interest often share other and related interests as well. I still think it is too hard to make all of this super efficient as part of my normal daily workflow, but I see a lot of great innovation leading in the right direction. Assuming I know the delicious name, I can quickly grab the visualization, click on a tag and click on an RSS feed to everything that person tags on the topic…Love it!
More to do of course… For example, it would be really powerful if I could create custom groups of people, visualize their tags, and subscribe to a group RSS feed on the topic – a multi-author, single topic RSS feed – sounds like a combination Reputation + Bookmarking + syndication service). If someone knows an easy way to do this, let me know:)
Late addition: Sue also has a great Wiki article on maximizing your use of Delicious.
Sean
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