An Overview of Social Bookmarking

By: Aimee MartinTechnology Resource Teacher

Aimee.Martin@fcps.org

What is Social Bookmarking? Sites that allow you to store and share

bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser

get to your bookmarks from anywhere share your bookmarks publicly find other people who have interesting

bookmarks and add their links to your own collection

Magnolia, Diigo, and Delicious are among the most popular social bookmarking sites

Isn’t it Delicious?Let’s watch a video about social bookmarking!

Resources: www.martintrt.wikispaces.com/Delicious

Delicious 411 Who should register? Teachers

Does the site require an email address to browse websites on the site? No, anyone can view public pages.

Does the site require an email address to create an account? Yes, you must have an account to create a site.

Are there privacy settings available? Yes.

Highlights of Delicious Bookmark anywhere and share Spend less time “Googling” and more time

finding sites of interest to other educators in your Network!

Organization—like an electronic filing cabinet for your websites!

See what others are bookmarking and snatch it for yourself

Dynamic way of listing sites for others to use

Why post on the Internet? You have the sites EVERYWHERE Bookmark here, bookmark there (all the same

place) Saves time Public or private view Post links for students easily Share content related sites with peers

Team-wide Grade-wide Department -wide School-wide

Remember what “social” means . . .

Anyone will be able to view your Delicious page at your URL address. However, you will be the only one who can edit the page. You can add websites and delete websites after you log into Delicious.

You can make specific websites private by selecting the “Do Not Share” box.

Tagging helps you stay organized folks! “Folksonomy” is a user-generated

taxonomy used to categorize, track, group, search, and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags.

It improves searches by allowing users to label information with their own language.

Tagging

A tag is simply a word you use to describe a bookmark.

Unlike folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like.

Tag Cloud- Tags get bigger each time they are used to show popularity

Tag Hints Tags need to be one word as using the

space bar identifies another tag in Delicious. Do not use commas!

Use underscores or combine wordsEx. Graphic_Organizer or cellphones NOT

graphic organizer or cell phones as these would be seen as separate tags

What is a Network? Your network connects you to other Delicious

users: friends, family, coworkers. You can view and manage your network by going to the Network tab at the top of the page.

Why should I subscribe to networks? Every time you subscribe to someone’s network, you can see the user’s sites on a separate page and it updates automatically whenever the person adds a site.

You don’t waste your time finding sites! The sites come to you!

Browser Buttons

Save you time No copying and pasting URLs Download on home computer

Bookmarklets (IE Manual or Firefox) Drag and drop on links toolbar in Firefox

Bookmark InformationURL: Automatically inserts when using the browser or bookmarklet buttonsDescription: NAME of the website usually shows up hereNotes: Annotate your site. Write a brief sentence with a description of the site or why you are saving the site. Tags: Add a few main tags (keywords) to categorize your website.

Then click “save”.

Examples www.delicious.com/aimeem Always follows same format

www.delicious.com/username TRT Users: aboehman

tommykatjwisnousemrh21727runkles1heathermcc

Our Goals Sign-up for Delicious accounts Add bookmarklets to Firefox browser Add users to your Network

Save some bookmarks from another Delicious member

Save a bookmark using the bookmarklet button Send a bookmark to someone in your network

(For:username)

Use the search feature to find bookmarks and other users

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