Social Bookmarking

[Christi U.]

Librarians and other informational professional love to organize, right? Social bookmarking is an easy to not only file all of your favorite URL addresses, but also share them with friends and colleagues.
Post a link to your Social Bookmarking account below and, thus, share five websites you think no one should live without.

Welcome to Courtney S, our specialist of the week!

[Jenny Ellis]

I've been using Delicious for a while, so I thought I'd try out Faves. I didn't get too far because I didn't want to import all of my bookmarks and I didn't want to install a browser button. Because I couldn't simply "fave" a website, I bailed on Faves. I'll be interested to hear a positive experience for that site - maybe I gave up too quickly.

I added the learndiscover tag to a few of the sites I have tagged in Delicious. I can't say enough good things about Delicious. I used to email myself websites to look at later and it was a mess. Now I can actually find the sites I want to go back to! None of the sites I've tried really compares with the ease of use and clean design. No ads, no junk. Just my favorites.

Now if I could only find a way to save images like I save websites...until then, I'm still saving images to my flash drive.

Here's my link: http://delicious.com/fozzieblue/learndiscover

[Maya Berry]

I tried out Faves as well, and it did not work for me either. It might be better if I had friends who used it so I could see their recommendations, but I wasn't finding anything that I really wanted to look at or share using the Faves recommendations for particular categories. I think I will try something else.

[Maya Berry]

I created a delicious account. This worked out a lot better for me.

Here are my 5: http://delicious.com/mberry2/learndiscover

[Stephanie]

Had to let you know that I love the sight Book Seeker I can't wait to get to work so I can share this with everyone.

[Christi U.]

Yeah, I would love to have a place to collect my images... On the other hand, we could start a separate account and collect the URL link to the image. Hmmm... it's a thought. Do you have any other ideas?

[Michelle Nielsen Ott]

I have used delicious for a while but I also use Blinklist. I really like how I can find websites easily. I also like that I can bookmark certain blog entries I like instead of going to the home page and looking through archives for something I remember from a few days or weeks ago.

I also like the look of delicious clouds. I've never made one but I have seen others.

Here is my list of five and more:

http://delicious.com/michelle523/learndiscover

[Christi U.]

What's the difference between Delicious & Blinklist?

[Michelle Nielsen Ott]

Well they both offer the same service in general. I started out with blink list and then started using delicious. I use delicious simply because it is more popular. Courtney was having trouble with blink list last week but I have never had any trouble with it.

[Melissa Reynolds]

I've heard alot of great things about Delicious on LM-Net so thought I'd give it a go. It was easy to set up the account, import my IE bookmarks, & then tag the 5 websites. I can see this as being really helpful - no more emailing websites from my home account to school. It looks like the hardest part is to make sure you tag each one where you can find it.

[Melissa Reynolds]

Ok, my link didn't work the 1st time, so here's another try...

http://delicious.com/m2tigers/learndiscover

[Beth Dailey Kenneth]

I have been holding off creating a bookmarking site for no reason I can think of...they are super handy! I'm so glad you pushed me to go ahead and create an account. I can't wait until I start adding sites as I run across them (instead of searching for some to bookmark for this assignment).

Here's my link:
http://delicious.com/BethDailey/learndiscover

[Stephanie]

Ok, I thought I would try Clipmark. I was not real happy with it, but I will go back and try it again.

Delicious is what I have been using and I find it easier for me to use.
It is difficult to use at work because our computers are so slow and it takes so long to open.

My site is:

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