Library Guides: Alerts: Social Bookmarking

What is Social Bookmarking?

It's an online service that allows you to add, annotate, edit, tag, and share links of web documents.

It also allows you to find new resources through other people's bookmark lists.

Social bookmarking makes it easier to find connections with other people online who share your interests or are in your field of study!

Advantages

You can make easy connections with other people interested in your field of study by "following" them
Tags help you search for new developments in your field
Aids in keeping up with the evolving vocabulary that is being used in your area of study with the use of tags
Can be used as an intelligent search engine when doing research

Disadvantages

There is a risk of the poor use of tags as they are assigned to links by average users instead of professional indexers
Skewed views on subjects can be formed through the use of pejorative tags on items. Remember these are personal views on subjects/links not necessarily professional views.
Storing data in another location that you have to maintain. Don't try to take on too much!

Google Alerts and Social Bookmarking
Takes you through what these alerts are and how you can use them.

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