Social Bookmarking
What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is the posting of what have traditionally been called bookmarks/favorites to a list which is shared publicly via a web site. Hence, bookmarks can be accessed anytime, anyplace, with any digital media that has internet access. Bookmarks can be accompanied by a description, notes and tags. Tags are labels created by a user and assigned to a bookmark (i.e. recipe). Tag bundles can be created by tagging a group of tags (i.e. cooking which includes all sites tagged with: recipes, desserts, appetizers).
Users can quickly and easily search their own bookmarks/favorites by using tags and can search others’ bookmarks/favorites by username and tag. This allows users to copy relevant bookmarks/favorites and find a community of individuals interested in similar topics. Users can subscribe to RSS feeds, having newly added links on a specific topic posted by other users automatically delivered to their inbox. Social bookmarking sites include features such as “most popular” bookmarks/favorites which are updated daily, hourly in some cases, and browser plug-ins to make bookmarking seamless during a web browsing session.
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Traditional Bookmarks/Favorites
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Social Bookmarks
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If a site is relevant to several topic areas, you have to save the bookmark in multiple folders
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Bookmarks are tagged and can be added to numerous categories (bundles) all at once
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Bookmarks are saved locally on a machine and can only be accessed on that machine
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Bookmarks are saved on the web and can be accessed anytime, anyplace you have an internet connection
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In order to share the bookmarks, you need to create a hotlist or web page
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Bookmarks are public information and can be shared with anyone by giving them the URL
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Searching for a saved bookmark can be time consuming
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Search capabilities are built in allowing searches by tags and bundles
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Ability to link to others’ collections of resources on the same topic as well as search topics
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Watch this video tp learn more . . .
A Common Craft Video
Tools | Applications | delicious
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