1. Social Bookmarking for Research
and Education
Marc Loman
Wageningen UR Library

2. Contents
 Social bookmarking what is it all about ?
 Tagging
 The social part
 Broadcast yourself
 Follow your favourites

3. Favourites/bookmarks on your PC

4. Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is
a method for Internet
users to store,
organize, search, and
manage bookmarks of
web pages on the
Internet with the help of
tags.

5. Web 2.0

6. a tagis a relevant
keyword or term associated
with or assigned to a piece of
information (like pictures,
articles or video clips), thus
describing the item and
enabling keyword based
classification of
information it is applied to.
Tags

7. Delicious.com
 Store your bookmarks online
 Tag your bookmarks
 Share your bookmarks
 Subscribe to bookmarks

8. Social bookmarking in Plain English

9. Bookmarks in delicious

10. A tag cloud

11. A tag cloud with Wordle.net

12. Delicious Network

13. Other systems
There are more science oriented systems:
 2Collab
 Connotea
 CiteUlike
 Unalog
 Scholar.com
 Zotero

15. Connotea makes suggestions

16. Exporting references
 Allows for structured
output
 Bibliographic formatting

19. Follow your favourite tags

20. More tips and tricks
• Keeping up to date with RSS Feeds
• Web 2.0 and the Academy (registration required)
• http://library.wur.nl/desktop/events