I love the idea of social bookmarking. Keeping bookmarks synchronised between my three main computers is impossible, let alone sharing these where appropriate among new and existing staff. While there are software tools to synchronise bookmarks across PCs, work IT policies prevent these from being installed.
Another aspect is how quickly web pages can disappear - if your bookmark is out-of-date you can quickly find other sites that have been bookmarked without having to wade through as much dross.
Because others can add to these and you can share/import it you can develop a list of websites collaboratively that can be utilised for reference enquiries and to give new staff access to resources easily. And because it's collaborative it takes the burden off of a single person to maintain and is hopefully "self" correcting.
My Delicious bookmark page is http://www.delicious.com/libsmorethanbooks .
I think Delicious is great. It really widens your scope and uncovers great resources and websites, I love it for music and tech news.
ReplyDeleteI found it useful to find other sites of interest because they are tagged.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem of three computers, so social bookmarking is a great solution to find all my favourites.
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