Social Bookmarking

What is it?Online bookmarks /

favouritesSharing in a social network

Tagging for easy, logical storage and retrieval

Finely targeted searching‘Stumble upon’ relevant resources

Why bother?

Why bother?

Tagging makes retrieval &

searching easy

Links organise themselves as they

grow

‘Stumble upon’ resources in your

network

Sharing leads to communities of

interest

And what’s more …

Take your bookmarks with you

everywhere

Have a permanent bookmark

backup

Subscribe to tag

RSS feeds

Buzzwords…

Social bookmarki

ng

Tag cloud

folksonomy

Browser

buttons

Feedreader

What now?

Create an account using

del.icio.us

Use your BC email address

to register

Start bookmarking, tagging and adding your colleagues

to your social network.