SBforElmPlace

=Social Bookmarking with Delicious and Diigo=

Introduction
[|Delicious] and [|Diigo] are popular [|social bookmarking] sites that allow internet users to store all of their saved websites (a.k.a. "favorites" or "bookmarks") online, so that they are accessible from any Internet-enabled computer. Users can organize their sites using **tags** (user-defined keywords), and descriptions. The "social" aspect comes from the fact that users' bookmarks and tags are **publicly browsable and searchable**. Users can also subscribe to others' bookmark collections or to specific tags to create a personal resource network. Delicious **tags** are an example of a **folksonomy**, or user-created organizational structure.

Here's **Social Bookmarking in Plain English** (3:24)- emphasis on Delicious
media type="custom" key="4846641"

But why put your bookmarks online? What's the advantage? That's easy to answer using the following questions:
 * Have you ever needed a website at home or at work and it wasn't saved on the "right" computer?
 * Have you ever had to send yourself links to sites, especially a group of links?
 * Have you ever went back to find a link you saved and couldn't locate it?
 * Have you ever needed to supply your students with a list of links and didn't have a way of providing them easily online?

If you answered one of these with a yes, then social bookmarking is a great way of taking care of that problem.

**Features of social bookmarking**

 * Import all your existing bookmarks (a.k.a favorites) from your browser with a few clicks.
 * Access (and add to) your bookmarks from any computer! Never lose another link, email links to yourself, or paste into a document for sharing access.
 * Discover great resources saved by millions of users with a keyword search, or by browsing specific tags or individual user collections. Try searching Delicious or Diigo as an alternative to Google when looking for resources for a particular topic.
 * Mark any bookmark as private when you save it. (Only YOU will see these sites when you are logged in).
 * Let others do the work for you! (Wisdom of Crowds)
 * Easily share and collect bookmarks with others!

**SHARING**

 * Share all your bookmarks with students or colleagues by giving them a single URL.
 * Share sites for a specific tag (i.e topic) by providing the link for that tag only.
 * Subscribe to the RSS feed of a specific user, tag or user/tag combination in your RSS reader, or display the feed results on a blog, wiki or other webpage to share with students or colleagues.
 * Create a special "shared" tag to collect resources along with others for a particular purpose or topic.
 * Create a specific list of bookmarks for students to use in their research, for colleagues, or as a means of organizing your own bookmarks into topics. These lists are easy to share as each has its own unique URL. Here is one example :Internet Safety and Cyber Bullying

Let's Play!
> **HELP PAGE:** Here is a sample delicious results page for a search using the keyword "Storytelling."
 * Explore Delicious or Diigo**
 * 1) Go to [|delicious].
 * 2) **Search** for something that interests you. (You can do this more than once). Enter **one or more keywords** in the **search box** at the top of the page.
 * 3) **Review the results** and **begin browsing**. ** Things to notice: ** **additional tags** used for each site, number of **other people** who have tagged the site (numbers in blue boxes), **usernames** of those who have tagged the sites (click any username to see all sites saved by that user).
 * 1) **Explore the result s ** of your search by following some of the "delicious" information -- click a **related tag**, a **username**, a blue "**saved by X other people**" box. **HINT:** To actually **visit** a "discovered" site, try **right-clicking** the link and selecting "open in new tab" or "open in new window". That way, you won't lose your delicious results.
 * 2) When viewing a particular **user**'s saved sites, explore his or her **tag list**, **top 10 tags** and **tag bundles** on the right side of the page. Use **Related Tags** to narrow your search results. Use **Tag Options** to switch between **cloud** and **list** views, and **alpha** and **count** order.
 * 3) Basically, **search and browse** around, and see what you can figure out about **how delicious works and how it may be helpful to you**.


 * ‡ HELP Page: ** Anatomy of a Delicious Page
 * ‡ HELP Page: **  [|Anatomy of a Diigo Page]

Sign up for a Delicious and Diigo account.
 * On your own: Sign up for Delicious and Diigo**

Advanced Play

 * Log into your Delicious or Diigo account and practice adding and tagging 15-20 sites.** Give some thought to your choices of tags -- think about all the different ways you would categorize the site -- remember that each tag is a SINGLE KEYWORD and you must leave a space between each tag. Don't be afraid to use several tags, they don't cost anything. Also give some thought to the **Descriptions** (site titles -- the "link" you will click) and **Notes** (site descriptions).

When tagging, try to think about it as if you were someone who might be looking for what you've bookmarked. ** Advanced Tagging: **  Try highlighting a bit of text on a page **before** clicking the TAG button. The highlighted text will be added automatically to the description field when you save.

Super-Advanced Play
>
 * Add a **subscription**. Find a **tag** that interests you and subscribe to it. You can refine/narrow a subscription by using a **Tag Intersection** (multiple tags joined by + e.g. poetry+shakespeare)
 * Add someone to **your network** (delicious) or create a group (diigo)

**A Few "High Profile" Social Bookmarking Users** (Not a Representative Sample)
 * **User** || **Diigo** || **Delicious** ||
 * Will Richardson ||  || [] ||
 * David Warlick ||  || [] ||
 * Vicki Davis || @http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher || [] ||
 * David Jakes ||  || [] ||
 * Wesley Fryer || @http://www.diigo.com/user/wfryer || [] ||
 * Alan Levine ||  || [] ||
 * Lucy Gray || [] ||  ||
 * Chris Betcher ||  @http://www.diigo.com/user/betchaboy ||  ||
 * Jennifer Dorman || @http://www.diigo.com/user/cliotech ||  ||
 * Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach ||  || [] ||