The article this week is “Social Bookmarking Tools for Collaboration and Interaction”, http://www.speakingandmarketingtips.com/social-bookmarking.html. This not only gives a brief history of bookmarking and details of some of the most popular sites, but it also shares information for making the most of bookmarks for marketing your own website:
Making Social Bookmarking an Effective Web Promotion Strategy
There are three things you need to do to make the most of social bookmarking:
1. Tag your web site, blog, squidoo lenses, social networking sites and any other web presence you have on as many social bookmark sites as you can.
2. Encourage visitors to your sites to add them to their social bookmarks.
3. Network with other social bookmarkers and collaberate with each other to promote your sites.
Doing this by individually tagging links to a lot of bookmarket sites was impractical - also setting up links for people to click to add my site to their bookmarks meant having a page full of icons.” (http://www.speakingandmarketingtips.com/social-bookmarking.html )
In searching for more information about social bookmarking, I found another niche: a specialized social bookmarking site for academics, who can tag articles for scholarly journals for later retrieval. Sounds like a traditional file cabinet full of folders with arbitrary labels, that may or may not be easy to locate when you need them. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2007/kipp_2007.pdf . I like this article because it analyses the tags, which is crucial to making your bookmarking site work for you, so you can easily retrieve what you need when you need it. Hope these articles shed some light on the process for you- they have certainly helped me.
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I've read the article by Kipp. It poses a good question: how effectives are user tags, author keywords and intermediary descriptors in tagging? However, the scope of the study is restricted only to biology literatures. I believe such research could be more generalizable if it studies academic works in more fields.
But it is a great idea to use social bookmarking in library system. And I think more research should be done in this field.
The Kipp article is interesting. "CiteULike" might be a good idea to help students in library finding articles. Since we already feel the benefit of seeing other people's bookmark, I think bookmarking articles in library and then share it to other people could be beneficial.
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