Delicious, the social bookmarking tool, is the 2008 Top Learning Tool
Mashable asks: is Social Bookmarking: The Race to Be Famous or a Useful Tool?
Does the fact that someone bookmarks a site begin to make them an expert in that topic? That is the approach we take when subscribing, following or searching against others bookmarks. I know just as much about medieval egg rolling competitions as the next person. But if I start tagging and bookmarking sites that pertain to the topic, I suddenly have followers and become a leader of knowledge in that taxonomy area.
The real question begs: Are all these shared and tagged bookmarks becoming a useful tool to anyone?
Have we moved beyond the ability to search the Web for ourselves to find information, relying on others to find everything?
Zengestrom (via: Bokardo) posted:
Social Networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. Think about the object as the reason why people affiliate with each specific other and not just anyone.
The social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects. On del.icio.us the objects are the Bookmarks.
1- Social Bookmarking tools are very useful because they let you store your bookmarks online.
2- You can tag your bookmarks
3- You can even share your bookmarks with others.
4- Find and follow users that save great content (bookmarks). They are researching the internet and finding great content for you!!!
5- If you want to become famous? No problem. Become useful to others: show them that you also have the expertise and connections to find useful content (bookmarks).
6- Users who appreciate the bookmarks you find, will certainly be interested and will appreciate also the content you write. Bookmark your own posts!! In this way you will alert other users in your network about your new posts and promote yourself. My Del.icio.us Network is My Favorite Feed Nothing wrong! If you spam them, users will delete you from their network.
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