Social Bookmarking - Part 2

I had an agent really throw me off guard the other day when she asked me what "bookmarking" was ... in the traditional sense. My brain immediately went to social bookmarking until I realized what she meant. I started thinking how in the world does this person not know what bookmarking is??? I thought about it again today when I looked at the little note on my PDA with her initials and the word, "bookmark" and decided that traditional bookmarking is dead.

Traditionally, we bookmark a site when we want to go back to it - sites we need for work or just that we find interesting. Social Bookmarking gives us the best of both worlds. My bookmarks are all still listed when I open my browser each morning, BONUS - I can share links in a flash and my Delicious feed goes to my social networking sites so the agents can see what I am finding.























Two things to think about with social bookmarking: creating tags and sharing nicely. When you save a website with a social bookmarking site, you will need to apply "tags" to the site. These are just descriptive words that will help to identify and classify the sites you are saving. Then there is the sharing part ... share as much or as little as you want - send links individually or pull a feed into your social networking sites.

The coolest thing about social bookmarking is what you get in return. Loads of people are out there sharing sites with you too and you can access those quickly and easily now. Sites like StumbleUpon even suggest sites for you based on your interests!!!

There are loads of great sites for social bookmarking, here are a handful:
Delicious
StumbleUpon
Digg
Reddit
Technorati

For more on Social Bookmarking with StumbleUpon & Delicious read this post - http://edu2dot0.blogspot.com/2008/11/social-bookmarking.html

Have a rockin weekend!!!

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is one of my favorite things to come out of the web 2.0 revolution. The two sites that I LOVE for social bookmarking are StumbleUpon and Delicious. These sites allow me to tag and share websites that I come across online and feel compelled to save for work or personal reasons. Now, if I am not on my computer, I can access my favorites from anywhere and everywhere.

A snapshot of my recent favs ...

How my favorites sites are saved is the super cool part - since I have added tags to my favorites sites, I can quickly and easily recall them without having to remember where I saved them. I have folders inside of folders inside of more folders in my old static favorites and honestly, for as organized as I thought this once was, now because I have so many saved, I find it cumbersome and hard to navigate.

Your tags are your labels - here is a snapshot of my tags:

So, why would YOU want to do this? The "social" part of Social Bookmarking is hands-down the reason you should get involved. SHARE your links with people you are connected with AND they will share with YOU!!!

Web 2.0 is all about participation. Why keep all of the cool information you find online to yourself? Share it with others and they will share with you!

You might even learn something!!!