Social bookmarking is a way to keep track of websites--like using "Favorites" or "Bookmarks" in your browser--using a free online account that you can also share with your friends.

Because your favorite websites are organized online, you can find them anytime, no matter what computer you're on.  This is really great if you sometimes work from home, travel, or use public or shared computers.  There are two more really good reasons to use a social bookmarking system.  First, it can be social--you and your friends (or colleagues, peers, teammates) can share lists of websites.  This way, if a friend finds a good site and bookmarks it, you'll know about it too.  Secondly, like many other Web 2.0 applications, social bookmarking services allow you to use tags (descriptive keywords) to label your content.  When you tag your favorite websites, you create an index that allows you to find exactly what you want later on, without needing to remember the names or URLs of the websites.

Upcoming live webmeeting about the use of social bookmarking in education, sponsored by the Classroom 2.0 social network.

Check it out!

A message to all members of Classroom 2.0

This coming Thursday (Nov. 20), at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am (next day) GMT, Maggie Tsai, co-founder of the social bookmarking service Diigo, and her special guest, Jennifer Dorman, will demo and discuss the first phase of "Diigo Educator Account:" a suite of features that makes it easy for teachers to get their entire class of students or their peers started on collaborative research using Diigo's web annotation and social bookmarking technology. There will be lots of time for Q&A.

More information and the link to the Elluminate session room are at:

http://www.classroom20.com/events/social-bookmarking

Additional information on the Classrom 2.0 LIVE Webinars is at:

http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/classroom-20-live-web-events

Cheers,

Steve

Steve Hargadon

Founder, Classroom 2.0

www.stevehargadon.com

There are many different social bookmarking services out there.  Here's a link to an article (published Oct. 2008) on the top 30 social bookmarking services:  http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30. 

You can find Susan's social bookmarks at:  http://delicious.com/swbrandt.

And, for another clear and easy to understand explanation of social bookmarking, check out this video from the Common Craft Show:

steve@hargadon.com