This document introduces social bookmarking and the site Delicious. It discusses how social bookmarking allows users to bookmark and share websites online with others. Users can organize bookmarks by tags and share them on their profile, within communities, or integrate them into courses. Social bookmarking offers advantages like accessing bookmarks from anywhere, organizing information, and networking with other users.
Why? For future reference Advantages Ease of saving & retrieval to read later, to read again, to save googling, to save printing, to recall for e-mailing to a colleague or student Limitations Located on a single machine – not always accessible or available Housekeeping overhead Not-easily shareable Duplication of work – for access on other machines, sharing with colleagues or students Not dynamic or flexible – folder-based rather than tag based – where would you put a resource about Social Networking in HE which may refer to Economics & Geography? Furtive, singular activity –no crediblity tools, no idea who else has saved it
Advantages Accessible from anywhere – web rather than pc based Easy to share Easy to organise Dynamic – fixed weblink but ever changing resources Credible – how many people have saved a resource Searchable – resources, people, descriptions, tags Access to experts Community building – friends, sharing, recommending Limitations Tagging and organising is an acquired skill Folksonomies – where traditional taxonomies are replaced by emerging, individual ways of describing and collating resources – can cause confusion