Michigan State University Libraries

Social Bookmarking

• del.icio.us
  
  The most popular social bookmarking tool
• Diigo
  
  Highlight passages and add sticky notes to your bookmarks, saves a copy of the webpage
• Furl
  
  Saves a copy of the webpage
• CiteULike
  
  Academic papers
• Connotea
  
  For researchers, clinicians and scientists (created by Nature Publishing)

• Register
  
  
• Add bookmarks
  
  
• • Add a new bookmark
    
    
  • • What are tags?
      
      
  • Import bookmarks from Internet Explorer or Firefox
    
    If you want to import all of your bookmarks or favorites from your web browser, log in to del.icio.us and click on "settings" and then "import/upload" under the Bookmarks heading.
• Navigate
  
  
• • del.icio.us/akille - Every user has his or her own page for bookmarks
    
    
  • del.icio.us/rss/akille - Every user has his or her own RSS feed for their bookmarks
    
    
  • del.icio.us/tag/environment - Every tag has its own page
    
    
  • del.icio.us/akille/environment - View bookmarks by user and tag
    
    
  • del.icio.us/tag/environment+climatechange - View bookmarks with more than one tag
    
    
  • del.icio.us/akille/environment+climatechange - View bookmarks with more than one tag by a specific user
    
    
• Share
  
  
• • Send a bookmark to another user
    
    
  • Embed your links on a webpage
    
    See an example.
  • Embed your tags on a webpage
    
    See an example.
• Discover
  
  
• • Create a network
    
    
  • Subscribe to your favorite tags within del.icio.us
    
    
  • Subscribe to your favorite users and tags with RSS
    
    

• The Brave New World of Social Bookmarking: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Too Afraid to Ask (pdf)
  
  Amanda Etches-Johnson. Feliciter. 2006. Iss. 2
• Social Bookmarking, Folksonomies, and Web 2.0 Tools
  
  Laura Gordon-Murnane. Searcher. Jun 2006. Vol.14, Iss. 6
• Tagging in the Medical Library
  
  
• Comparison chart of social bookmarking tools
  
  

• MIT Libraries
  
  Links embedded on their Virtual Reference Collection page. Read more about it in this blog post.
• University of Florida Chemistry Librarian
  
  See how the librarian has integrated the tags into a subject guide.
• University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries
  
  Tags are bundled by audience, geographic focus, and source, as well as by topic.
• Maui Community College Library
  
  Links embedded on their About Us page under "Our Current Interests"
• Lansing (IL) Public Library
  
  Syndicated on their home page.
• Courtneypark Branch Library
  
  For staff use. Shows how tag bundles can be used.
• San Mateo Public Library
  
  For staff use. Tags organized by Dewey Decimal classification! I think this defeats the purpose of tagging... but interesting to see.

• Social Bookmarking: Organize + Share + Discover (pdf)