Week 7 Reading Response: Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Folksonomies

As always, Wikipedia, was a great place to start understanding Social Bookmarking. I always find the external links section of the Wikipedia articles to be quite useful. In addition to Hamond’s “Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review”, that was on our reading list, you find links to icekin’s Sn’B site which provides an article on searching for the ideal social bookmarking service, a list of social bookmarking resources and a link to the “7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking” article, along with some others all of which are worthwhile reads. Back to our class readings for this week, I really enjoyed Hollenback’s article “Even tastier del.icio.us”, which lead me to finally check out extisp.icio.us. Extisp.icio.uw, allows you to sign in with your del.icio.us user name and it displays a “random textual scattering” of your tags, which are sized according to how frequently you use them. The link provided above provides a dual window for extisp.icio.us and extisp.icio.us images. The latter displays a random Yahoo image search of all your tags and displays a collage. Both are quite fun and worth the 2 seconds to generate.

URLs Matter in Social Bookmarking

Although URLs play an important role for search engine optimization, they also play an important role in social bookmarking. One of the most important factors to maximizing your exposure on del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites is the URL of a website.

What Is Social Bookmarking?

It refers to sites where you share interesting internet content with other users, as well as browse bookmarks that other members have collected.
It is a great way to stumble across interesting content, hence the site Stumbleupon's popularity.
If you find a user of a site like Digg, Delicious or Stumbleupon that is like you, or has similar interests, you can find a whole ton of interesting content that you could not have found in hundreds of hours of surfing the web.

Sharing articles with social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a way to store, organise, search and share interesting content you find on the internet. Instead of storing the information about a page in your web-browser the share links on newmatilda.com let you store that information using a number of popular social bookmarking services.

The Only Social Bookmarking Tool You Need

AC writers need to promote their articles, and one of the most popular ways to do that is with social bookmarking tools. You might not get a good deal of pageviews directly from these tools, but you will boost the pagerank of your articles, as almost every decent social bookmarking site
has a pagerank of at least 5 (some are as high as 8 or 10).

How to Add Social Bookmarking / Networking to Joomla Articles

Social bookmarking and networking sites are very popular these days, and a must for those who wish to share their content with the broadest audience possible. Allowing your visitors to share your content with those in their 'network' is a great way to market your site.

This week we'll walk you through how to set up a tool to allow quick sharing of your articles in the most popular social bookmarking/networking sites.

Nine Notable Uses for Social Bookmarking

Would you like to have an almost limitless ability to keep track of websites? It’s out there, waiting to be tapped. Social bookmarking sites excel at maintaining an online grouping of websites for many purposes (e.g. making lists of recipes, project plans, how-to lists, resource sites, etc.). You can use tags and comments to help classify and retrieve websites when needed. Electronic bookmarking functions have been used by academics and other professionals for years as a means of sharing information and collaborating on projects.