This article looks at the evolving
crop of social bookmarking tools, their functionality and examples of use. The
goal is to help nonprofits understand the value of using social bookmarking
tools and to determine which social bookmarking tool would best serve their
needs. This is directed at nonprofit uses of these tools.
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The
landscape of social bookmarking tools is like the wild west. New tools are
appearing (and disappearing) rapidly and the features of specific tools is also
changing. Thanks to the open nature (in terms of syndication and APIs if not
source) of many of these tools, third party add-ons can provide significant
additional functionality. All of this means that the material in the article can
become quickly out-of-date. For that reason, this has been set up, in CivicSpace parlance, as a book. This
means that is editable by anyone who has a ConsultantCommons.org user account
As new information becomes available, functionality changes, or new tools
emerge, please feel free to make updates to this page.
In addition, as this page is being developed, please feel free to add
information either by editing the book itself or by leaving a comment.
If you participate in the editing of this document, please include your name
and any desired contact information in the "Contributors" section below.
This being developed in response to a suggestion from Beth Kanter
Contributors- Marnie Webb, user: webb, ,ext337, marniewebb@gmail.com
- Beth Kanter beth@bethkanter.org
- Nancy White, nancyw@fullcirc.com
- SimonP
- Adam Loving
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks to an online service and
"tagging" them with keywords you create instead of saving the bookmarks in your
browser's favorite's list. Your collection of bookmarks is viewable to others
users who may easily copy bookmarks to their own collection. Social bookmarking
enables a you to discover other people who are interested in a topic and know
about an excellent web resources that you may not have found by using a search
engine. Based on: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking] and
[http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI7001]
Social bookmarking tools often allow you to clip all or part of the page
you are bookmarking, extensive commenting, thus offering potentially more
annotation and content "meaning making."
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