Week 9: Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is something that many people have already participated in unknowingly. Sending a web link you think is interesting to a friend is an example of this. Social bookmarking is tagging a website and saving it for a later use. What makes it unique is that instead of saving them to your browser you are saving them to the web. Since the bookmarks are online this allows for easy sharing with friends and coworkers. It allows you to specifically target what you want to see and narrow down the items you are looking for.

Being in the sport management field i see social bookmarking as a tool that could be often used. It allows you to save your favorite web sites and send them to your coworkers for another opinion. Another thing is you can see what other people have tagged and found interesting and maybe get a few different ideas that you otherwise would not have had access too. You can browse through items based on such things as popularity and recently added. This will give you numerous different sources for anything you choose to browse, a huge helping tool for any field.

This is a great example of a social bookmarking website. It is very organized and very simple to maneuver your way through. It allows for you to search for anything while also telling you what is hot right now. This is a great site for those that are looking to expand their social bookmarking.