Social Bookmarking

Introduction to Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organise, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. Most social bookmark services encourage users to organise their bookmarks with informal 'tags' enabling the viewing of other bookmarks associated with a chosen tag.

As a part of this course, a Social Bookmarking page has been set up on the popular bookmarking site Delicious. The username and password for this site is available below and users are strongly encouraged to add further links and resources to this site. As useful articles and resources arise from your research, a link to the site can be added thus adding to the resource bank for other participants within the course.

Course Delicious Information

• Delicious Site: http://delicious.com/e-jump2.0
• Username: ejump2.0
• Password: assessment1

Further Links and Useful Resources

• YouTube Common Craft Video on Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• How To Technology Tips Blog on Creating a Delicious Account
• Educause Article '7 Things you should know about Social Bokmarking'

Links to Social Bookmarking Sites/Tools

• Delicious
• Furl
• Cite-U-Like