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Definition
Social bookmarking is a system where people work together to bring together articles and works throughout the Internet by tagging them. For example, people can vote on something if it is informative as a suggestion for others to read it, or add it to a list of articles on the same topic.
Examples
Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Google Reader
Why use it?
Sites such as Digg receive about 20 million hits a month. People who find something via social bookmarking are also more likely to trust the source, because it has been pre-approved by a human, instead of a list generated by a search engine. It's also any easy way for people to check out what their friends are reading, and stumble across your site that way.
Sites such as Del.icio.us can be really helpful in saving, organizing, managing, and categorizing all of the websites that you want to remember. It's easy to share tags through digg and find key websites by looking at others' use of the same tag.Del.icio.us also allows you to see all of your bookmarks online, so you can access them and add to them from any computer.
Use Cases
In a del.icio.us search of “human rights” the top ten hits are all well-known organizations. If the same term is googled definitions and some unknown organizations come up along with the United Nations. With the del.icio.us tags I have more trust that the organizations that come up are valid and I was able to find them much more quickly.
Check out the del.icio.us tag for participatory media and collective action, "pmca", to see a list of web resources and articles related to the subject.
Ratings
Cost = $
Start-Up Time = T
Maintenance time = T
Complexity for Creators: *
Complexity for Users: *
Broadband required for effective use?: N
Read Accessibility: 3
Write Accessibility: 3
Comments: depends
Traffic: 3 (about 2 million regular users, 20 million hits a month)
Bling: 5
Blingability: 1
How to use
Sign up of an account at one of the social bookmarking sites above. Most of them will insert a toolbar, so whenever you see something relevant to your organization, tag-it!
Helpful/Interesting Links
Social bookmarking is a system where people work together to bring together articles and works throughout the Internet by tagging them. For example, people can vote on something if it is informative as a suggestion for others to read it, or add it to a list of articles on the same topic.
Examples
Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Google Reader
Why use it?
Sites such as Digg receive about 20 million hits a month. People who find something via social bookmarking are also more likely to trust the source, because it has been pre-approved by a human, instead of a list generated by a search engine. It's also any easy way for people to check out what their friends are reading, and stumble across your site that way.
Sites such as Del.icio.us can be really helpful in saving, organizing, managing, and categorizing all of the websites that you want to remember. It's easy to share tags through digg and find key websites by looking at others' use of the same tag.Del.icio.us also allows you to see all of your bookmarks online, so you can access them and add to them from any computer.
Use Cases
In a del.icio.us search of “human rights” the top ten hits are all well-known organizations. If the same term is googled definitions and some unknown organizations come up along with the United Nations. With the del.icio.us tags I have more trust that the organizations that come up are valid and I was able to find them much more quickly.
Check out the del.icio.us tag for participatory media and collective action, "pmca", to see a list of web resources and articles related to the subject.
Ratings
Cost = $
Start-Up Time = T
Maintenance time = T
Complexity for Creators: *
Complexity for Users: *
Broadband required for effective use?: N
Read Accessibility: 3
Write Accessibility: 3
Comments: depends
Traffic: 3 (about 2 million regular users, 20 million hits a month)
Bling: 5
Blingability: 1
How to use
Sign up of an account at one of the social bookmarking sites above. Most of them will insert a toolbar, so whenever you see something relevant to your organization, tag-it!
Helpful/Interesting Links
- A general review of Social Bookmarking Tools (from D-Lib Magazine)
- Digg's failing democracy (from the Download Squad)
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Keyword tags:
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social bookmarking
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| Caricia | Delicious is great for researchers | 0 | Dec 6 2007, 11:24 PM EST by Caricia | ||
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Thread started: Dec 6 2007, 11:24 PM EST
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Hi. I added some info about delicious. I think that it's my favorite social bookmarking tool, but for none of the social reasons. As someone who is knee deep into graduate research, delicious is most useful as a way to sift through the millions of tiny pieces of information that come my way. Often, I don't have time to look at each of them in-depth so I make sure that I can find them later through delicious, in the case that they become really important later, as I am writing up my prospectus, etc.
Do you find this valuable?
Keyword tags:
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digg
social bookmarking
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| sshein | why is readability and writability a 1 here? | 1 | Dec 6 2007, 8:04 PM EST by pickoffwhite | ||
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Thread started: Dec 4 2007, 12:42 AM EST
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its free to make a del.icio.us account, and anyone can see your links unless you make it private.
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