If you use the Internet you are running into websites for business and fun that you want to share with your friends, clients, contacts and the world. Emailing every link you find is just too much. Social bookmarking is a free way to help you share your links as well as a quick way to get back to the links you like on any computer. These tools are often called social bookmarking because of the sharing nature. Social bookmarking in Plain English is a great video about social bookmarking.
Part of what makes social bookmarking so useful is the use of tags. Tags are words used by users to make things easier to be found. An article about an American Food cook book might include tags like American Food, Food, Hamburgers, Fries, Okra, Fried, and others. Tags are not only used in social networking but on many websites like blogs, photo sharing sites, and to organize sites with lots of content.
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Del.icio.us is is my favorite social bookmarking site. I like that it is simple and quick and that it has nice extensions Internet Explorer and Firefox making it very easy to share your favorites. You can follow Denver DataMan's favorites.
Digg is a way to share links you like by clicking on a . As pages on sites get more people to Digg them then the site rises to the top on the
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Facebook lets you share links with your friends in a more targeted way. You can add a link on Facebook to your own wall or to a friend's wall or as a message. Some sites are adding Facebook sharing buttons to their content. Adding content to Facebook does not keep a running list of your favorites for others to find.
Social bookmarking is a tool with great potential that I hope will get more use. Sharing links in a productive way will help everyone on the Internet find more useful information and make their use of the web even more productive.
