Social Bookmarking

It has been a couple of mornings since the madness of Christmas Day. I am pleased to say I was clearly a very good boy and santa brought me all I wanted, and more! I’ve just about managed to find time to begin to do a spot of work on my trusty laptop.

“Work” is perhaps a bit exagerated. I have not used my laptop much in the past few months - I did not have the right or latest software on here and my bookmarks were very unorganised. So all I have done is try to sort both of these issues out. This alone has taken me a few hours. Despite having done nothing productive towards my business ventutres it has given me the opportunity to do a bit of experimentation…..

On this blog I have included the facility for people to add a link to del.icio.us, digg and furl. These sites are collectively know as Social Bookmarking sites. What they allow you to do is instead of bookmarking to your web browser, you add the webpage to your account on your chosen social bookmarkign site and “tagging” it. In this day of mobile computing, people using many different compouters at the office, home, friends houses and internet cafes it is useful to have all your bookmarks accessible from one remotely accesible place - as I am discovering. What makes these sites even better is that each time you add a bookmark, you are effectively adding a vote for it. This allows you to search for pages, stories etc and see how popular they are.

I am new to this and just experementing with a couple - delicious and digg. Both I think will prove useful to me not only for personal organisation, but also for promoting and marketing my sites, including this one! Because I am no expert I wont give advice on which I think is the best, or even how to use them. If you wish to do a little more reading on the subject I found these interesting.

Social Bookmarking Tool Comparison
What Happens When The Simple Dollar Meets Digg/Lifehacker/etc.: A Special Report

I now have to sign off. I must pack up, and start our journey to the next stop in our little family christmas tour!