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Social Bookmarking

Web 2.0: Why it matters and what you need to know a practical guide

ALPSP Training CourseLondon, April 2008

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What is Social Bookmarking?

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Browser Bookmarks Are Limited

Hierarchical filing is awkward and limiting

Can’t easily share with other computers (or people)

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Solution?

Provide better ways to categorize bookmarks

Store bookmarks online not locally

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Example

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Isn’t That Anti-Social Bookmarking?

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Folksonomy

“the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and

categorize content.”-- Wikipedia

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Popular Social Bookmarking Sites

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del.icio.us

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Connotea

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CiteULike

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2collab

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Integration

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Integration

Bookmarking Links

Tagometer

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Summary

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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

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Questions?