Social bookmarking involves saving web page links online so that they can be easily accessed and shared with others. Some key benefits of social bookmarking include better organization of bookmarks, increased collaboration and sharing of information, as well as making bookmarking and organizing links fun. Popular social bookmarking sites allow users to tag and organize bookmarks, choose sites they like, and connect with others for sharing links and resources across education, work, games and more.

1. SOCIAL BOOK-MARKING Leby Sassya

2. Social Book-Marking What is it? History Links and Websites SBM Guidelines How do You SBM? What makes SBM? How is it Fun? How is it Useful? Where Can it be Used?

3. What is Social Book-Marking To mark a document or a specific place in a document to be retrieved later . Most browsers support a bookmarking feature that lets you save the address ( URL ) of a Web page so that you can easily re-visit the page at a later time. What is Social Bookmarking ?

4. History of Social BookMarking Bookmarks dates back to April of 1996 with the launch of ItList which has both public and private. Within 3 yrs SBM became competitive such as BackFlip, lacked money making therefore it failed. Founded in Dec 2003, del.icio.us Pioneered Tagging & coined the term “ Social Bookmarking.” Some named it “ Social Citation Services” , there are so many SBM Sites are listed in the next slide.

5. Links and Websites StumbleUpon.com Digg.com FeedMarker.com Del.icio.us.com OpenTag.com BlauerBote.com Spurl.com Wink.com Social bookmark sites

6. SBM Guidelines Various method and guidelines on how to Social BookMarking. This is Del.icio.us bookmarking example:

7. How do You Social BookMark Universal access to your bookmarked sites just sign-up online at a great site such as del.icio.us ; and enjoy quick access to a definitive set of bookmarks from virtually anywhere in the world. Stumble upon allows you to choose sites you like. many social bookmarking sites employ user-defined tagging architecture to provide unlimited flexibility for organizing your bookmarks. Save your bookmarks on the site Social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us provide a simple way to keep select sites private, so get over yourself and get sharing! With a single click, del.icio.us exports your entire collection via a nice little html file. Fresh. Delivered. Be social and share!

8. What makes Social BookMmarking Better organization of bookmarks needs to drop the resource-hogging browser ext. that supposedly enhance the practical efficiency of ones collection; many social bookmarking sites employ user-defined tagging architecture to provide unlimited flexibility for organizing bookmarks.

9. How SBM is Fun These are the top 10 SBM: From all what is listed to the right: 1. del.icio.us , 2. Digg.com , 3. Listible , 4. Furl , 5. Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta , 6. Flickr , 7. Slashdot , 8. YouTube , 9. Simpy , 10. Popurls.com . Imagine how many people one can connect with for fun, games, collaboration, information etc…

10. How SBM is Useful Increase in fun, games and more productivity. Better collaboration between colleagues coworkers etc… Educational social book-marking

11. Where Can SBM be Used Social bookmarking is a way to store, organize, share and search bookmarks ("favorite") web pages. With on-line social bookmarking tools, users can save links to web pages that they want to remember or share. These bookmarks are usually public but can also be saved privately, or shared only with specific people or groups. Teachers can use social bookmarking to share links to websites and to find out what websites other teachers are using.