 Tracking Innovations with Social Bookmarking
Once you've moved beyond just "thinking" about your brilliant idea you
need to spend some quality time researching it! Time to upgrade to a
more powerful social bookmarking tool.
Whereas social bookmarking tools will not
necessarily help you find materials (however, they might!), they will do a smashing job of
helping you annotate, organize, and share resources.
Image from " Social Bookmarking and Tagging for SEO"
What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking allows individuals to share their bookmarks
(including annotations) with one another and also allows the user to
access resources from any connection to the web. The “social” element
also suggests that users to make their bookmarks public which allows for people to make connections based on “those who bookmarked this site also
bookmarked."
Common Technology Features
- browser bookmarklets and toolbars
- tagging
- annotating
- import/export
Common "Social" Features
- visible with public vs. private options
- network with "friends"
- subscriptions to follow specific tags
- individually pushing and receiving links
- just the general "who bookmarked this also bookmarked" ability
Social Bookmarking Tools
- Del.icio.us—robust
annotation options (annotation window), easy add without a bookmarklet,
rss out output for both user and individual tags (see below), cross-tag
organization, full toolbar and firefox add-on, widgets on LOTS of sites
(Facebook, personal portals/homepages, etc.)
- Diigo—caches
pages, highlight and annotate on individual webpages, really robust
annotation options, has groups (could make classes), lists can be made
into web-videos (click on "Tools" above for an example), full toolbar,
connect to blog, simultaneous bookmarking (plays well with others
bookmarking services like delicious), output widget in javascript,
slight learning curve in learning all the tools.
- Digg—ranking
tool, difficult to input new bookmark, biased ranking based on the
types of users; however, check "digg the candidates" as a cool use of
the "socialness" of the tool.
- Stumble Upon—surfing tool, ranking tool, provides rss output
- 20 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites (November 2009)
Strategies
- Personal: Track Resources
- Professional: Share Resources
- Tag liberally
- Highlight & Annotate what was useful
Resources
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