Social Bookmarking Web 2.0: Why it matters and what you need to know a practical guide ALPSP Training Course London, April 2008

What is Social Bookmarking?

Browser Bookmarks Are Limited Hierarchical filing is awkward and limiting Can’t easily share with other computers (or people)

Solution? Provide better ways to categorize bookmarks Store bookmarks online not locally

Example

Isn’t That Anti-Social Bookmarking?

Folksonomy “the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.” -- Wikipedia

Popular Social Bookmarking Sites

del.icio.us

Connotea

CiteULike

2collab

Integration

Integration Bookmarking Links Tagometer

Bookmarking Links

Tagometer

Summary

Summary Tagging assigns keywords to web pages Facilitates sharing of bookmarks A Folksonomy is the aggregation of keywords Allows discovery of related content Drives traffic to bookmarked pages

Tagging assigns keywords to web pages

Facilitates sharing of bookmarks

A Folksonomy is the aggregation of keywords

Allows discovery of related content

Drives traffic to bookmarked pages

Questions?