BP4_2009102_Social_Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is an online means of storing, classifying, localizing and sharing these Internet resources, according to individual needs and interests (Grosseck). There are many benefits of social bookmarking. It enables the user to compile their bookmarks in one spot so that they are easily accessible from any computer. In other words, if a valuable site is found on a computer at work or school, it can be easily accessed on a computer at home without having to remember the site or write it down.

It saves time. Imagine looking through years of bookmarks for sites related to education. This could take hours. What if the sites should be specifically about classroom management? This could take even longer. Social bookmarking’s genius works on the tagging concept (O’Neal, 2009). Social bookmarking allows the user to create tags for easy access later.

It gives the user the ability to see the bookmarks of other people in their network. For instance, if someone is researching the benefits of social bookmarking for graduate school and has networked with other students in the same graduate school class, they can look at the sites those students have already bookmarked. This is what is meant by “social bookmarking.” A symbiotic relationship has been created where users can see the bookmarks created by others in their network.

References

Educause (2005). 7 things you should know about social bookmarking. Retrieved October 6, 2009 from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf

Grosseck, G. (n.d.) Using del.icio.us in education. Retrieved October 10, 2009 from http://www.scribd.com/doc/212002/Using-delicious-In-Education

Heymann, P. (2008). Can social bookmarks improve web search? Retrieved October 10, 2009 from http://heymann.stanford.edu/improvewebsearch.html

Jackson, L. (2009). Sites to see: Social bookmarking. Retrieved October 10, 2009 from http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml

O’Neal, C. (2009). So delicious: A must-use bookmarking tool. Retrieved October 10, 2009 from http://www.edutopia.org/so-del-icio-us