Why is social bookmarking significant
- Enables like-minded people to find each other and create new communities of users around a topic
- Allows a specific group of people (staff members in an organization for example) to share resources efficiently
- Can help you find new insights about a topic by seeing how others think and connect to it
- Creates contextual taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community/group of people (good for different cultural contexts)
- Most tools incorporate various mechanisms for sharing information outside of the tools (via RSS, integration with other tools such as blogging software)
What are the drawbacks
- Tools are still evolving and not all have polished,user-friendly interfaces
- No consistent oversight to how a resource is tagged - e.g. tag London could stand for Julie London, City of London, or Jack London
- The stream of specific resources on a topic is as good as the community who has joined the service. Many services are populated with early adoptor types so the technical information can fantastic, but more general topics may not yet have lots of users. This is changing though.
- More overwhelming
- Possibility of tagging spam
posted by Horshan
@ 10:42 PM
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