Bookmarking Your Way to Success
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Social bookmarking is a way for people to store, classify, share and search bookmarks on the web. People store links to the specific web pages that they find useful or interesting, then they can share these links with their friends or people with similar interests. Social bookmarking produces up-to-the-minute information sources loaded with personal investment and value. Social bookmarking is one of the more recent examples of emerging new internet tools, sometimes called Web 2.0, which can have very useful applications within an intranet. These tools share the concepts of transparency and access to search, while each is optimized for specific functions.
Social bookmarking involves posting a link back to your web page or blog post from a social bookmarking website which stores the link. You enter keywords (called Tags) which categorize your bookmark and allow others to search, view and vote for your bookmark. Social bookmarking can be used by anyone, but is generally utilized for business to business information, or business to consumer information. Social Bookmarking is one of the many ways that Wiliam can connect your brand with an online community. Treat your web site as an information resource for users exploring future purchase decisions.
Social bookmarking sites like Digg and del.icio.us facilitate finding popular content by organizing these links topically or by counting the number of links to a particular item to show their popularity. Bookmarking high-quality content on Gather on these services helps others across the Internet find the best content by your fellow Gatherers more frequently. Social bookmarking is obviously a very successful method of promoting a website but its amazing the lengths some people go to for a few extra Digg votes. I’m actually quite interested in seeing how successful this particular entry is, it currently has 1 digg and I’m guessing it won’t get too many more! Social bookmarking sites allow you to easily store useful and interesting web pages, tag them and then you choose to either keep for your own reference or share them with the ‘community’. Social bookmarking sites effectively create micro communities of people with shared interests where users collectively determine what’s hot and what’ not.
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