(This is the final week of the Social Media Challenge)
We all have bookmarks in our browser. Folders with bunches of bookmarks to help us get to sites we don’t want to forget about or those we go to often.
But there are a few limitations:
- Bookmarks do not cross computers – In other words, the bookmarks you have at work are not available at home, and via versa. If you find a great site at home that you will want to use at work you might have to email yourself to bookmark it there. PAIN.
- Bookmarks are hierarchical – If you were to bookmark Engaged Learning, which bookmark file would you put it in? ”Learning” or “E2.0″ or “Social media” or “Blogs” or … What if it could fit in all of those? How will you remember where you put it if the bookmarks grow in number?
- Bookmark horder! If you find a great web page, how will you share it? Email it to everyone? Tweet it (good idea). But if it isn’t easy, you probably won’t share the link with anyone else. In fact, I bet a large majority of the most useful websites you have not shared with everyone. What if we could share those? How much could we learn from each other?!
Enter Social Bookmarking.
Like other times, I am going to let our friends at Common Craft explain this.
This is SIMPLE. This is SHARING. This is LEARNING & DISCOVERY. This is a TIME SAVER.
With Social Bookmarking you have overcome all the difficulties presented above. 1) You can access your bookmarks from ANY computer – yours or anothers’- as long as you sign in; 2) the Tags allow you to efficiently organize your bookmarks without losing them; 3) Others can see your bookmarks (you can, if needed, make some bookmarks private so only you can see them).
TO DO – Sign up (Difficulty Level: EASY – Time: 5- minutes)
- Go to Delicious.com and sign up.
- Add the TAG & DELICIOUS buttons to your tool bar (or use Ctrl+D to bookmark).
- Start bookmarking with DELICIOUS.
