Social What? Social Social What? Social Bookmarking!Bookmarking!

Liane HaslauerGreater Manchester Professional Development Centerwww.gmpdc.org

What is social What is social bookmarking?bookmarking?

From Wikipedia:

“A method for internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.”

Bookmarks can be saved publicly or privately

Bookmarks can be backed up

MetadataMetadataDescriptions can be added

bookmarks in the form of metadata◦text comments◦ votes in favor of or against ◦tags (keywords)

◦When many users add tags or comments these tags become a “folksonomy” (folk + taxonomy)

AdvantagesAdvantagesTags are created by human beings

who understand the content in context (not software which attempts to make meaning algorithmically)

People can find pages that haven’t been indexed by search engines yet

Pages ranked according to how many times it is bookmarked by users (not how many external links point to it) and…

My number one reason…My number one reason…

You can access all of your bookmarks from any computer from anywhere.

DisadvantagesDisadvantagesNo standard set of keywordsMistagging (spelling errors)Inconsistencies

◦Singular vs. plural◦Capitalization

Unclear tags ◦Personalized schemata

Skewed perspective◦Overrepresentation of those applying

tags

Social Bookmarking ToolsSocial Bookmarking ToolsThree things with: Delicious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU http://delicious.com

Do more with: Diigohttp://www.diigo.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9khBCRby1s

Think inside the box: Simply Box http://simplybox.com