Social bookmarking is a way to collect websites online. Each website collected can be tagged with multiple tags or descriptors. Once tagged, all like tags are kept together. If you wish to look for other websites with like tags, you can simply search your tag in your social bookmarking network or search the sites of people who have tagged the same site as yours. Following are a few sites with more information on social bookmarking.
Nine Notable Uses For Social Bookmarking
This website discusses nine different uses for social bookmarking.
1. Using it as a calendar of events
2. A “people” database, keeping track of and gaining new contacts
3. Maintaining research documents
4. File indexing: images, audio, video
5. Determine popularity of a website
6. On-line portfolio
7. Make new contacts
8. Website rating
9. Specialized networking, different networks have different angles and applications
This article written by … discusses the history of Delicious, how to use it, and different tagging methods.
1. The Selfish Style
a. Tagging only for oneself or people close to you
b. Tagging an article Oliver for my husband to look at it when the article has nothing to do with any “Oliver”
2. The Friendly Type
a. Tagging for friends, colleagues, project partners, etc.
3. The Altruist Type
a. General tagging in order to share with as many people as possible
4. The Popular Type
a. “Artificial” tagging
b. Tagging something as “interesting”, “top 10”, etc., has no social benefit
It also describes how Delicious can be used to support teaching and learning by creating learning communities, supporting lectures, research, project support, bibliographic aid, informal feedback, and developing management abilities.
Social Bookmarking in Education blog from Frequently Answered Questions
This is a blog created by Rebecca Hedreen. In her blog, she describes all different types of social bookmarking. With FURL, even if the site you bookmark changes or expires, you can still access the information in your FURL account. Flickr is a network for photographs. Connotea and CiteULike are networks for academics and researchers. She goes on to describe different ways to use social networking in the classroom.
Social Bookmarking in Higher Education
This website goes over everything you may need to know about social bookmarking. It explains what it is, how to do it, ways it is used in education and in business, and lists many different networks to choose from.
Social Bookmarking in Education blog from Openweb.com
This blog describes mainly three different social networks that either are solely or include bookmarking. They are Pligg, Elgg, and Posh. The author takes you step-by-step through the bookmarking procedures of each network and discusses how one can use this in the classroom.
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