Social Bookmarking Questions

· What is Social Bookmarking?

It is a bookmarking tool that makes it more useful by being able to pull it up on any computer, not just the browser of one computer like traditional bookmarking.

· Who is using social bookmarking services?

Everyone can use social bookmarking services. Teachers, students, and businesses use them as well.

· How does it work?

Sign up for the website, start tagging websites that you want to save in your bookmarks, then make it social by looking at other people’s tagged websites.

· Why is it significant?

Social bookmarking helps you sort through the millions and millions of websites out there and keep your favorite ones close no matter what computer you are on. It also helps you connect with other people based on their bookmarks.

· Where is it going?

A lot more people will start to hear about the social bookmarking sites, they will become more popular and traditional bookmarking will become a thing of the past.

· How can it be used by teachers and students?

Teachers can share research and the websites that choose as helpful or the best with students. Students can share them with other students. Classroom discussions can be continued on a social bookmarking site.

· What are the downsides?

Its not the traditional bookmarking style by tagging it to your web browser so it’s not extremely popular yet, nor do a lot of people even know about them, causing them to not have a lot of exposure.

· What are the benefits (compared with traditional bookmarking methods)?

You can share your bookmarks with other people, you can access them on any computer, you can save many bookmarks but keep them very organized by tags and lists.

· List 3 popular Social Bookmarking sites that you have explored and tell us which one is your top pick.

Twitter, Digg and Delicious. My top pick though is delicious, the one that was featured in the video. It seems like the easiest one to use for me.