This document provides an introduction to social bookmarking. It defines social bookmarking as saving bookmarks to a public website and tagging them with keywords. Benefits highlighted include cloud-based storage of bookmarked resources that are accessible from anywhere. Several free social bookmarking tools like Diigo, Delicious, and CiteULike are introduced. Best practices for implementing social bookmarking in the classroom are also explored.

1. Introduction to
Social Bookmarking
Social Media Series

2. Presenter
Jason Rhode, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Faculty
Development and Instructional
Design Center
Northern Illinois University
niu.edu/facdev
jrhode@niu.edu
twitter.com/jrhode

3. Today’s Workshop
• Define “social bookmarking” and compare to
other approaches to saving favorites
• Highlight benefits to a cloud-based storage of
bookmarked resources
• Introduce several free social bookmarking
tools
• Explore best practices for implementing social
bookmarking activities in the classroom

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5. Social Media Tools & Technologies
Blogs Wikis
Social Social
Podcasts
Bookmarks Networks
Video Photo
Sharing Sharing

6. What is Social Bookmarking?
“Practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site
and ‘tagging’ them with keywords”
(Educause, 2005)
Photo courtesy http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/2973403186

7. 2007 Person of the Year

8. Your Online Information

9. Volume

10. Notification
?

11. Aggregation

12. Syndication

13. Distribution

14. Folksonomy
“…an Internet-based information
retrieval methodology consisting
of collaboratively
generated, open-ended labels
that categorize content such as
Web pages, online
photographs, and Web links. A
folksonomy is most notably
contrasted from a taxonomy in
that the authors of the labeling
system are often the main users
(and sometimes originators) of
the content to which the labels
are applied.” (Wikipedia)

15. Saving Your Favorites in “the cloud”
• Saving your favorites to “the cloud” means
that they are:
– Accessible from anywhere
– Accessible on any browser
– Accessible from any device
– Accessible to others
(if you wish)
• If you computer crashes, you favorites are
safe!

16. Tag Cloud
keywords that have been used when
bookmarking for easy sorting, searching,
and distribution

17. Different Individuals Bookmarking the Same
Online Resource with Different Tags
Source: Ericka Menchen Trevino, 2005
http://blog.erickamenchen.net/wp-images/SBS.jpg

18. Multiple Individuals Using Shared Tags to
Bookmark Online Resources
Source: Ericka Menchen Trevino, 2005
http://blog.erickamenchen.net/wp-images/SBS.jpg

19. Using Tags as an Index for Bookmarked Pages
Source: Ericka Menchen Trevino, 2005
http://blog.erickamenchen.net/wp-images/SBS.jpg

20. Bookmarking Service Matrix
Bag of URLs
delicious
General Diigo
Furl
Feed Me Links! Flickr
Linkfilter Photobucket
Audience
YouTube
reddit
Technorati Pinterest
Scholarly
CiteULike
Connotea
Endnote Web arXiv
Zotero Merlot
Links Media

21. Social Bookmarks Recap
• store, organize, search,
& manage bookmarks of
Web pages in the
“cloud”
• use keywords, called
“tags” to easily sort and
Recommended Free Social
share Bookmarking Tools:
• keep some bookmarks • Diigo.com
• Delicious.com
private, share others • CiteULike.org
• Pinterest
Diagram courtesy http://diigo.com

22. Diigo (prounounced “Dee’go”)
Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff
Social Information Network (SIN) – Social network where
information consumption, research, and sharing is central

23. Much More Than Just Bookmarks…
• Diigo does much more than just remember
your page…with Diigo you can:
– Bookmark the page
– Highlight text of interest
– Add stick notes
– Add tags for easy sorting
– Add descriptions for more detail
– Save and annotate pages and screen captures
– Share resources to just a select group of users
– And much more….

24. Share Bookmarks with Others
• Share bookmarks with people who matter
• Students or classes can create groups to:
– Pool relevant resources
– Share comments and findings
– Collaborate on research
• Find quality content by seeing what friends
and leaders are bookmarking
• Retain access to resources bookmarked after
course ends (ie: build personal online library)

25. Device Agnostic
• Because your data is in
“the cloud” your
experience is the same
on any device
• Diigo has native apps for:
– iPad
– Android
– iPhone
– And plugins for all major
browsers

26. Diigo.com/education

27. What educators are saying…
• “Truly a unique and transformative tool ~ Diigo has the
potential to change the ways in which we mentor all
our students”
• “Diigo fosters discussion and encourages active, critical
reading .. the most efficient way I have discovered to
share content and commentary.”
• “Diigo Groups are a phenomenal tool for
building, maintaining, and contributing to a
professional learning network as they tap into the
collective intelligence of the network by allowing many
users to share resources and annotations with the
group.”

28. Sample Diigo Library
diigo.com/user/jrhode

29. Diigo Demo
• Features of Diigo toolbar
• Adding a bookmark
• Highlighting and adding notes
• Searching personal library
• Creating a group
• Sharing to a group

30. Diigo.com/learn_more

31. CiteULike.org

32. What makes CiteULike social?
• You can share your library with others, and
find out who is reading the same papers as
you. In turn, this can help you discover
literature which is relevant to your field but
you may not have known about.

33. Supports Wide Range of Sources
ACL Anthology, AIP Scitation, AIS Electronic Library, Amazon, American Chem. Soc.
Publications, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society Journals, American
Physical Society, Annual Reviews, Anthrosource, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
portal, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Digital Library, BMJ, BioMed
Central, BioOne, BiomedExperts, Blackwell Synergy, Cambridge University Press, Cases
Network, Cell, Chicago Journals, CiNii, CiteSeer, CiteSeerX Beta, Cryptology ePrint
Archive, DBLP, Daum, EBI CiteXplore, EGU Journals, EdITLib, Education Resources Information
Center, Elsevier, F1000, First Monday, Game Studies, HighWire, IEEE Digital Library, IEEE Explore, IOS
Press, IUCr, IWA Publishing Online, Informa Healthcare, Ingenta, IngentaConnect, International Journal
of Communication, International Journal of Digital Curation, IoP Electronic
Journals, JASA, JSTAGE, JSTOR, JStatSoft, Japan Society of Applied Physics, Journal of Machine Learning
Research, Journal of Usability Studies, Journal of Visualized Experiment, Journal of the American
Veterinary Medical Association, LibraryThing, MIT Press Journals, Mary Ann
Liebert, MathSciNet, MetaPress, Morgan and Claypool, NASA Astrophysics Data System, National Bureau
of Economic Research, Nature, Nature Precedings, New England Journal of Medicine, Open
Repository, Optical Society of America, PLoS Biology, PenSoft, Pion, Primary Care Respiratory
Journal, Project MUSE, PsyCONTENT, PubMed, PubMed Central, Requests for Comments and Internet-
Drafts, Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, SPIE Digitial Library, Science, ScienceDirect, Social
Science Research Network, Springer Protocols, SpringerLink, St Andrews Library Journals, Taylor and
Francis, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, UK PubMed Central, University of Texas at Austin AI Lab
Website, Usenix, Wiley InterScience, WorldCat, WormBase, arXiv.org e-Print archive, crossref-doi, de
Gruyter, informaworld, mdpi, novo|seek, plos
Post an article from any non-supported site on the web – you’ll
just have to type the citation details in yourself

34. Sample CiteULike Library
citeulike.org/user/jrhode

35. CiteULike Demo
• Browsing library
• Adding bookmarked paper from supported
source
• Sorting library by tag or author
• Sharing collection by tag

36. Pinterest.com
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the
beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse boards created by other
people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your
interests.
People use boards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and share their
favorite recipes, among many other things.

37. Pinterest.com/facdev

38. Pinterest Demo
• Create a board
• Pin an item to a board
• Repin an item from someone else to your
board

39. Pinterest.com/about/help

40. Opportunities for Education?
Collaborative Resource Lists
Cataloguing
Collecting,
Organizing, Archiving
Sharing Sources
What applications do you see for your
specific academic context?

41. Tips for Getting Started
• Select a social bookmarking service and begin
using (Diigo recommended)
• Import your current browser favorites
• Install browser bookmark button for easy
bookmarking
• When you want to bookmark a site, don’t use
your browser’s built-in favorites

42. Tips for Getting Started (cont.)
• Introduce students to value of social
bookmarking
• Consider including options for students to
utilize social bookmarking in their course-
related activities
– Individual research
– Group research and collaboration
– Class, program, or department-wide resource
sharing

43. Final Thoughts?
• Any final questions or comments you wish to
share?

44. References
Educause (2005). 7 things you should know about social bookmarking.
Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf

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Jason Rhode, Ph.D.
Faculty Development and
Instructional Design Center
Northern Illinois University
jrhode@niu.edu
niu.edu/facdev
twitter.com/jrhode
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