There is just so much information on the Internet! How on earth can you keep up with everything, remember what you like, and make sure reading what’s important? Have you ever wished there was a way to save, search and share the articles, ideas and web pages you find online? Do you wish you had a better way to organize all the information you read? There is.
Enter “social bookmarking”. Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, find, and share online media in one online location. Social bookmarking allows you to save and organize websites, articles, and videos in one location. Why should you care?
1. Make any computer your own library.
Social bookmarking saves your bookmarks remotely (not on your computer), making it easy to access all your bookmarks no matter where you are. It’s won’t matter what computer you’re on computers (work, home, library) or what browser you use (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox) you can access your bookmarks.
2. Save yourself some time, save a tree, save space on your hard drive.
Social bookmarking allows you to become incredibly efficient at finding and organizing online content. Rather than miss out on articles because you don’t have the time to read or have to write down websites to remember, and instead of printing articles to pass out to others, bookmark them. Social bookmarking allows you to read what you want when you want, it makes saving websites you want to remember easy as pie, and it allows you electronically share information. Time is money – social bookmarking can save you a lot of time.
3. Find what you’re looking for, fast.
Trying to hunt down a particular article or blog post can be daunting if you can’t remember all the details. With social bookmarking, you add tags (keywords or reference words or your choice) when you bookmark. This makes it easy to search your own bookmarks by your own keywords. This makes finding what you save simple and fast.
4. Sharing your bookmarks with others.
Whether you need to send an article to a co-worker or want to show your entire sales team a competitor’s website, social bookmarking makes it easy to do both. There is no longer a need to copy and paste the web page’s link into an email, print copies of articles, or save PDF’s to your hard drive. Simply bookmark and share.
5. Finding new materials, articles and ideas.
Do you ever wonder where people are finding some of their information, or what your co-workers find interesting online? With social bookmarking you can connect with others (co-workers, friends, etc.) and share what you find as well as view what others are filing away in their bookmarked pages.
By setting up a profile and regularly using a social bookmarking site, you can make you’re your online life and social media work immensely easier. Want to know more? Check out or step-by-step guide to social bookmarking here.
Want even more info? Check out the Wikipedia entry on social bookmarking here.
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