Social Bookmarking January 23, 2009
Posted by nitwit in Uncategorized.Tags: diigo, social bookmarking
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When you are using the Internet to look for information or resources, often you find an excellent site and decide to save a bookmark in your browser so that you can find that site again. Social bookmarking is the sharing of these bookmarks between friends or groups of colleagues to which you might belong.
There are several social bookmarking tools out there. Del.icio.us is one of the oldest and most popular. Another one that I really like is Diigo.
Here’s what happens when I go online — I find a site I like. I highlight part of the text that I want to share with others. I bookmark the site using my Diigo toolbar. I select tags that describe the find to make it easier to find it later. I choose to share the site: I can enter email addresses or select the friends I want to share it with, or I select a group or two that I belong to and it is available to each member of the group when they log into their Diigo account.
The big bonus is that the next time I need to find information on a specific topic such as Early American History, I just look up my group of history teachers worldwide and see what they have found and what they thought was good enough to share with the group. It cuts down on my searching, on my evaluating, and puts the very best at my fingertips.
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