Social Bookmarking

Social media
is the interaction among people in which they create,
share or exchange information and ideas in virtual
communities and networks.
[1]
Andreas Kaplan and Michael
Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-
based applications that build on the ideological and
technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the
creation and exchange of user-generated
content."
[2]
Furthermore, social media depend on mobile
and web-based technologies to create highly interactive
platforms through which individuals and communities
share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated
content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes
to communication between organizations, communities,
and individuals.
Classification of social media
Facebook an example of a social-media site had over one billion active users in
October 2012.
Social media technologies take on many different forms including magazines, Internet
forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, social networks, podcasts,
photographs or pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking. Technologies include
blogging, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-posting, music-sharing, crowdsourcing and voice
over IP, to name a few. Social network aggregation can integrate many of the platforms in
use.
By applying a set of theories in the field of media research (social presence, media
richness) and social processes (self-presentation, self-disclosure), Kaplan and Haenlein
created a classification scheme in their Business Horizons (2010) article, with seven
different types of social media:
collaborative projects (for example, Wikipedia)
blogs and microblogs (for example, Twitter)
Social news networking sites (for example, Digg and Leakernet)
content communities (for example, YouTube and DailyMotion)
social networking sites (for example, Facebook)
virtual game-worlds (e.g., World of Warcraft)
virtual social worlds (e.g. Second Lif

Website
A website it main feature is to serve as a door (only) to
give the user an easy and integrated access to a range
of resources and services related to the same subject.
Includes: blogs, forums, documents, applications,
electronic shopping,
Blog
is a regularly updated website that collects articles
chronologically texts or one or more authors, the most
recent appearing first, where the author always retains
the freedom to leave published as deemed appropriate
Social bookmarking
A social bookmarking service is a centralized online
service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of web documents.
[1]
Many online
bookmark management services have launched since
1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the
terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a
significant feature of social bookmarking systems,
enabling users to organize their bookmarks in flexible
ways and develop shared vocabularies known
as folksonomies.

Social bookmarking for education
Social bookmarking tools are an emerging educational technology that has
been drawing more of educators' attention over the last several years. This
technology offers knowledge sharing solutions and a social platform for
interactions and discussions. These tools enable users to collaboratively
underline, highlight, and annotate an electronic text, in addition to providing a
mechanism to write additional comments on the margins of the electronic
document.
[29]
For example, Delicious could be used in a course to provide an
inexpensive answer to the question of rising course materials costs.
[30]
RISAL
(Repository of Interactive Social Assets for Learning) is another social
bookmarking system used for supporting teaching and learning at the
university level.
[31]

Social bookmarking tools have several purposes in an academic setting
including: organizing and categorizing web pages for efficient retrieval;
keeping tagged pages accessible from any networked computer; sharing
needed or desired resources with other users; accessing tagged pages with RSS
feeds, cell phones and PDAs for increased mobility; allowing librarians and
instructors the capability to follow students' progress; and giving students
another way to collaborate with each other and make collective discoveries.


Uses
For individual users, social bookmarking can be useful as a way
to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various
computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share
bookmarks with contacts. Institutions including businesses,
libraries, and universities have used social bookmarking as a way
to increase information sharing among members. Social
bookmarking has been also used to improve web search.
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Enterprise bookmarking[edit]
Main article: Enterprise bookmarking
Libraries using social bookmarking[edit]
Libraries have found social bookmarking to be useful as an easy
way to provide lists of informative links to patrons.
[27]
The
University of Pennsylvania (UP) was one of the first library
adopters with its PennTags.
[28]

Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online
discussion site where people can hold conversations in
the form of posted messages.
[1]
They differ from chat
rooms in that messages are not shown in real-time, to
see new messages the forum page must be reloaded.
Also, depending on the access level of a user and/or
the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be
approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.