Comments on: Five Social Reasons to Use Social Bookmarking http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2008/10/28/social-bookmarking/ News from the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bookmarking Demon http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2008/10/28/social-bookmarking/comment-page-1/#comment-3411 Bookmarking Demon Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:29:42 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=421#comment-3411 It’s not a guarantee that you won’t stumble across something you’d rather not see, but the vast majority of social bookmarkers do use the service appropriately. It’s not a guarantee that you won’t stumble across something you’d rather not see, but the vast majority of social bookmarkers do use the service appropriately.

]]> By: Anonymous http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2008/10/28/social-bookmarking/comment-page-1/#comment-675 Anonymous Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:28:21 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=421#comment-675 A decent amount of users is necessary. Otherwise the whole social aspect looses relevance. The service has to have quite extensive documentation, FAQ and/or help pages, to guide users. More advanced users will want good import and export possibilities. Import is necessary for bringing old bookmarks from your browser or from another online bookmarking service, export is important for backup copies and to ensure that your bookmarks can go with you to another service if you decide to switch. A good bookmarking service should have feeds (RSS and/or Atom) of tags or groups of tags. I would want my bookmarking service to have a blog so I can be kept up to date about new features, bugs, bug fixes and more. --------------------------- davidboon <a href="http://www.widecircles.com" rel="nofollow">Social Bookmarking</a> A decent amount of users is necessary. Otherwise the whole social aspect looses relevance.

The service has to have quite extensive documentation, FAQ and/or help pages, to guide users.

More advanced users will want good import and export possibilities. Import is necessary for bringing old bookmarks from your browser or from another online bookmarking service, export is important for backup copies and to ensure that your bookmarks can go with you to another service if you decide to switch.
A good bookmarking service should have feeds (RSS and/or Atom) of tags or groups of tags.

I would want my bookmarking service to have a blog so I can be kept up to date about new features, bugs, bug fixes and more.
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Social Bookmarking

]]> By: Hope Leman http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2008/10/28/social-bookmarking/comment-page-1/#comment-577 Hope Leman Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:11:22 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=421#comment-577 Very interesting discussion. It is also important to leverage social bookmarking services when you are setting up Web sites. I made sure when setting up ScanGrants that our designer prominently featured buttons for delicious, Connotea and CiteULike. If you want try to ensure the widest possible dissemination of your content, facilitating the bookmarking of that content is a good move. People do share their bookmarks and I know from Google Analytics that some of the visitors to ScanGrants have come via the bookmarks of visitors who have used ScanGrants and added some of its listings to their bookmarks. Visitors bookmark items of interest and share that info with others, who then visit your site. Gotta keep the traffic coming! Leverage those tools. Very interesting discussion. It is also important to leverage social bookmarking services when you are setting up Web sites. I made sure when setting up ScanGrants that our designer prominently featured buttons for delicious, Connotea and CiteULike. If you want try to ensure the widest possible dissemination of your content, facilitating the bookmarking of that content is a good move. People do share their bookmarks and I know from Google Analytics that some of the visitors to ScanGrants have come via the bookmarks of visitors who have used ScanGrants and added some of its listings to their bookmarks. Visitors bookmark items of interest and share that info with others, who then visit your site. Gotta keep the traffic coming! Leverage those tools.

]]> By: Alison Aldrich http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2008/10/28/social-bookmarking/comment-page-1/#comment-544 Alison Aldrich Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:27:17 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=421#comment-544 I'm sorry that happened to you, Christi! Unfortunately, sites that are really useful and popular are also prime targets for spammers. The developers of social bookmarking sites need to be vigilant about inappropriate content because it's very easy for legitimate users to take their bookmarks elsewhere! You can report abuses to <a href="http://furl.net/talk/report" rel="nofollow">Furl here</a> or to <a href="https://secure.delicious.com/help/abuse" rel="nofollow">Delicious here</a>. To avoid sifting in general, though, I'd recommend searching rather than browsing, or starting from your own list of bookmarks. Assign some specific tags, then see which other users chose those same tags. It's not a guarantee that you won't stumble across something you'd rather not see, but the vast majority of social bookmarkers do use the service appropriately. I’m sorry that happened to you, Christi! Unfortunately, sites that are really useful and popular are also prime targets for spammers. The developers of social bookmarking sites need to be vigilant about inappropriate content because it’s very easy for legitimate users to take their bookmarks elsewhere! You can report abuses to Furl here or to Delicious here.

To avoid sifting in general, though, I’d recommend searching rather than browsing, or starting from your own list of bookmarks. Assign some specific tags, then see which other users chose those same tags. It’s not a guarantee that you won’t stumble across something you’d rather not see, but the vast majority of social bookmarkers do use the service appropriately.

]]> By: Christi Wheelock http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2008/10/28/social-bookmarking/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Christi Wheelock Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:48:11 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=421#comment-543 I recently signed up for FURL only to discover, when I decided to explore, that someone has designated all their favorite porn sites as Public and General under topics. Do Social Bookmarking sites have rules or courtesies that people should follow concerning bookmarks? Can you suggest some ways or social sites where I can avoid the stuff I know I don't want to sift through? I am new to this. Thanks. I recently signed up for FURL only to discover, when I decided to explore, that someone has designated all their favorite porn sites as Public and General under topics. Do Social Bookmarking sites have rules or courtesies that people should follow concerning bookmarks? Can you suggest some ways or social sites where I can avoid the stuff I know I don’t want to sift through? I am new to this. Thanks.

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