SOCIAL BOOKMARKIN

G - What is Social Bookmarking?- Video: Social Bookmarking is Plain English- History- Tools- How to get started with StumbleUpon- What is Tagging? - Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Bookmarking- Uses of Social Bookmarking

Gohar KhachatryanLibrarian/ Information

Specialist CRRC-Armenia gohar@crrc.am

OVERVIEW

Getting Started with

Caucasus Research Resource Centers - Armenia

What is Social Bookmarking?

• Social bookmarking is a great feature of web 2.0.

• It’s a tool which:– Frees you from your desktop.– Opens up new sites to friends.– Opens new sites to you in return.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a way of storing and classifying Internet bookmarks, meant to help Internet users find other sites they might be interested in.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet (Wikipedia).

www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

History

• The concept of social bookmarking dates back to April 1996 when tList.com was launched.

• In 2003 Del.icio.us coined the term, “social bookmarking”.

• The new era begins in 2005-2006.– The first wave: del.icio.us, Furl and Simpy– The second wave Diigo, Netvouz, Ma.gnolia

and Stumble Upon.

Tools• Social bookmarking started with only

the ability to save websites online.

• Newer services began to offer folders to sort bookmarks.

• The newest generation of this service offer the ability to rate websites, tag them for easy searching and even random searches for areas of interests.

A tag is a keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information

Tools

How to Get Started with• Join and discover 5,227,378 people's favorite sites• Discover websites based on your interests• Meet people that have similar interests

1. Go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/

2. Join StumbleUpon by registering an account

3. Get the StumbleUpon toolbar

StumbleUpon

Advantages of Social Bookmarking

• The bookmarks can be accessed anywhere with in internet connection.

• Easy sorting of personal bookmarks through the tagging of items.

• Great way to find and share new sites with friends and the general public.

• Tag based labeling of websites is superior to search engine’s traditional method of crawling since it relies upon people actually understanding the content on a site.

Disadvantages of Social Bookmarking

• No consistent oversight to how a resource is tagged - e.g. tag London could stand for City of London, or Jack London.

• The vocabulary problem that exists with tagging is rather severe and can cause all manner of problems.

• Tools are still evolving and not all have polished, user-friendly interfaces.

–Track all the interesting sites you find–Network with other people having

same interest around the world.–Organize web references for research–Contact other people for professional

networking based on their social book mark.

Uses of Social Bookmarking

Sources• Social Bookmarking by Jacob Uidosh, PPT available

at http://www.slideshare.net/jaguidosh/social-bookmarking-363878/download

• http://nptag.wikispaces.com/• Bottom-up All The Way Down: How Tags Help

Businesses Organize by Thomas Vander Wal, PPT available at http://www.slideshare.net/vanderwal/bottom-up-tagging/download

• Education World® Bookmarking Without Borders at http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial101.pdf

• Social Bookmarking Tool Comparison at http://www.consultantcommons.org/node/239