The Pros & The Cons of Social Bookmarking

1. In The Name Of God
Assignment No.1
Social Book Marking
Instructor: Fatemeh Nami Ph.D.
Prepared By: Elahe Mohammadi
IUST - 1397

2. What is Social Book Marking?
 Social bookmarking is a way for people to accumulate,
categorize, find, and control information from web
pages on the Internet.
 Users save links to their favorite and most useful web
pages, in order to remember information.

3. Top Social Book marking Site:
Feedly
BibSonomi
Delicious
Digg
Linked in

4. -Easy to find new and and
older information (Tag).
-Keep users informed on
the latest in Science,
library, IT field, etc.
-Search Per Tag.
-Enable you to advertise
your own link(Blog,
Websites, etc.)
-Good information
Retrieval.
The Advantage of Social Bookmarking:

5. The Drawbacks of Social Bookmarking:
No standard
set of key
word
Some Tags
Can be
unclear or
have multiple
meaning
No consistent
oversight to
how a
resource is
tagged.
Some social
bookmarking
site are not
free, you
need to pay
monthly
charges

6.  The feed reader known as feedly offers an easy way to aggregate
your information feeds in one place.
 Feed readers aggregate internet content into one convenient place.
 You don't have to keep checking back to any particular site to see if
it's been updated or not.
What is Feedly?

7. How to Sign up in feedly?
 Starting an account at feedly is easy.
 You have the option of setting up an
account using familiar logins you may
already have established, such as
Google or Facebook, or you can set up
a unique login for feedly by selecting
Continue with feedly and using your
email address.
 Once you're signed up, you can start
following news and information feeds

8.  Feeds are grouped by topics,
trends, industries, and others.
Selecting these will offer you a
list of feeds that fall into that
category.
 If you're looking for a specific
feed, such as your favorite blog,
you can search by keyword, the
website name, or the RSS feed
address.
Feedly Home Page:

9. Feedly Home Page:
Once you've subscribed to a few
feeds, feedly will show you a
personalized home screen with
all your feeds shown in order of
the most current on top.

10. How to Add to your feedly:
 Step1: Search your prefer
Content or Topic
 Step2: click on Follow
 Step3: Create New feed
 And your page is added,
That’s it.

11. Other Specifications:
 You can manage subscription using controls at the left.
 You can search for your key word
 You can add New key word alert to your feedly.