Social Bookmarking

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Social Bookmarking

• Diigo

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What is social bookmarking?

• It is a way for people to share web resources
  they have found
• Think of it as making chosen web pages you have
  bookmarked available to others
• And identifying them through tags that label
  the pages content

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What is social bookmarking?

• For our class everything we tag should, in
  addition to other tages, be labeled DRAM358F06
• This allows anyone in our class to search on that
  tag (DRAM358F06) and LINKS TO ALL OF THE WEBPAGES
  YOU ALL HAVE FOUND WILL APPEAR

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Go to http//www.furl.netClick Create Your Free
Account
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Fill Out the Form
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Go to your email account to get the Furl email
sent to you
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On Your Home Computer, You May Want to Install
the FURL toolbar (on Firefox Only)
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Saving a Bookmark on Furl

• How can I use Furl to save pages from a computer
  where I can't install the button or toolbar?
• Follow these steps when you come across a Web
  page you want to Furl.
• Open a new browser window.
• Type http//www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp into the
  address field. (Make sure the "I" is
  capitalized.)
• You will be prompted to log in. Enter your
  account username and password.
• You will then access the "Furl It - Save" page.
  Enter all the relevant details for the page
  (Title, URL, Topic, etc.). When entering the URL
  (Web site address), be sure to include http// at
  the beginning of the address, so it will be saved
  correctly.
• Press the Save button and you're done.

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I Saved That Link

• If you search on DRAM358F06 at Furl, the link
  will come u

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Lets try it!

• Open a new browser window
• Do a Google search on one of the following
• Eugene ONeill
• Harold Clurman
• Clifford Odets
• Stella Adler
• Find a webpage you want to bookmark

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Open Save to Furl page

• http//www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp
• (Remember the I in storeIt is capitalized)

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Add Page Information(Dont forget keyword
DRAM358F06) Save
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Return to www.furl.netSearch for DRAM358F06

• What pages did people bookmark?

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SO WHAT???
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Its about sharing

• You can not only see YOUR bookmarks
• But you can also see anyone else who has
  bookmarked the same page
• So you can benefit from other peoples work!
• Why reinvent the wheel?

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Try this

• Go to your Furl home
• Do a search on DOPA (the Deleting On-Line
  Predators Act which is supposed to make blogs
  illegal in public K-12 schools)

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Youll find everyone who has links with tags
labeled DOPA (789 to be exact!)
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Why is that cool?

• Because somebody may have done your legwork for
  you already!!!

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Notice this 11 members
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Who ELSE tagged this?
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What other things have they bookmarked?
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What other topics might apply?
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And theres much more I havent disovered yet
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How might we use this?