Social Bookmarking

Today we're working on social bookmarking - organizing your stuff on the internet. It also creates a networking opportunity to help you locate resources. Oh, make that organize, share, collect and link information either publically or privately.

We'll use delicious.com (but check out the "common craft" site for fun, simple presentations).

This will allow you to consolidate all your favorite sites and then access them from any computer! This could be way cool! Here are some interesting top sites links:

http://bluesearchmarketing.com/social-bookmarking-sites-list/   lists top 100 bookmarking sites

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites   lists top 15 bookmarking sites

• The more popular the site, the greater the potential for networking. 
• I'm going with www.delicious.com. My user ID is Jodee_Steffensen.  
• Once in, you'll be prompted to "create stacks."
• Settings are located in the top right hand corner. It's a drop down from your name (put curser over your name).
• Next, start adding friends, which is easy if you know what their usernames are. Once you get some in, you can "follow" them...the beginning of your network! Just click "follow."
• To tag websites, click on "save on delicious" and complete the description box.
• To "stack" related information, click on the stack button (you can run the tutorial on the delicious site).
• Yes, you can save video clips!

NOW, to attach OVERLY LONG WEBSITE ADDRESSES! The following services can rename an overlong URL address to something more easily remembered. They're all cut and past, then rename.

• Bit.ly
• CanURL
• Diigo
• MooURL – web’s cutest URL shortening service
• Tinyurl
  The next group of really interesting websites:
  http://www.43things.com/   Create and share goals
  http://www.wefeelfine.org/   Explore emotions expressed on the web
  http://pinterest.com/  Gather and create all those images you get sent through email
  http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short  Share ranked categories of information
  
  
  All in all - an excellent class. I think this is really going to help me organize. Also - apologies to any readers out there. I'm not sure how to make the note taking more personal and engaging. It's selfish really - I think this information is primarily for me right now...