1. What is
Social Bookmarking?
Katy Jordan, klj33@cam.ac.uk
9th November 2011, London
Knowledge Lab
2. 1. What it is
1. Why it might be useful
1. Which tool is right for you
3. What is social bookmarking?
• A way of making collections of web-based
resources
• Web-based tools – accessible anywhere
with an internet connection
• Basic principle of bookmarking pages –
like ‘favourites’ in a web browser
• But there are several advantages of social
bookmarking tools
4. Benefits of social
bookmarking confined to one
• Web-based tools – not
computer - interoperability
• Tagging can be used to help manage and
structure your collections
• Sharing and discoverability
• Group formation
• Dissemination – improves search ranking
6. Which tool is right for you
• Will you be bookmarking a lot of journal
papers? – DOI lookup, e.g.
Connotea, Zotero
• Are you building a literature review? –
EndNote-like plugins, e.g. Zotero (or
Bibtex export)
• Would you like to be able to ‘follow’ others
updates, like Twitter? E.g. Diigo, Zotero