Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for You

Ta-da! I mentioned this tool in class last week and decided it would be a worthwhile subject for a resource review, so here it is, after a lot more work than I expected... If anyone else is interested in using Camtasia for screencasting or Audacity for narration, I think I can share some tips that might save you time now, after I had to try everything 3-4 times to figure out what I was doing. :-P





Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for You by Emily Barney
based on works viewable at socialnetworkinstruction.googlepages.com.

Note: This about 9½ minutes long, so it might load slowly on some connections. While you're waiting for it to load, here's my outline:

1. What is Social Bookmarking? How does "bookmarking" work online? (1 min)
2. Diigo: Read, Organize, and Share websites (~1 min)
3. How to start using Diigo (2 min)
• Create a Login
• Install the Toolbar
• Set up a Profile / Privacy Settings
4. Review using the Diigo toolbar (1 min)
5. Social Features - overview of the Diigo website (~3 min)
• Email Contacts
• "Friends"
• Groups
• Tags
• Lists
6. Final Review: how does it work for you? (1 min)
• If you've never used social bookmarking...
• If you're already using a different tool...
• If you don't need a bookmark tool...

In an ideal world, I'd be posting this on a website with some nice flash options so I could do a table of contents to break it down and add links to the photos I used instead of having to post an outline here and give you this link to the photo info. But this is what I can do with free software, so this is what you get right now. :)

Thanks to everyone for giving me feedback on the class Moodle, hopefully I've addressed the right range of information for y'all. My boss says I should mention this is a free website... I've gotten to the point that I usually take that for granted, but now it's been said.

Oh, and if you hadn't seen it already, I put up a quiz to see what people in this class have been doing with these kinds of tools. It's one anonymous, multiple choice question, so it shouldn't take long to answer... if you haven't already, I hope you'll take a moment to stop by and add your 2¢.

Clearly we all approach this sort of thing with different needs and different strategies. I've found this tool to be very simple and flexible for me to use, so if you'd like to poke around in my profile and links, here's where you can start:

My profile: http://www.diigo.com/profile/ebarney

the list I set up for this class:

http://www.diigo.com/list/ebarney/media-literacy-youth

(it isn't complete... I'm kind of sporadic with any attempts to systematically organize anything in my life)

Feel free to leave me comments here or send me messages some other way if you have questions about how this works. And if you do use it, I'm very open to "friend" requests. :)