So often at events/trainings we find ourselves passing out prized resource lists, which often contain references to websites. In and of itself this approach is not wrong, in fact its ok. But what if there were a way for you to share your website resources that would prove beneficial to you and your audience beyond the mere dissemination and receipt of a web address? You’d want to do it, right? Well, social bookmarking is a route to explore (watch the video below) and the service I recommend is delicious, which is FREE!
Reasons to Use Social Bookmarking INSTEAD of a Handout to Share Websites
- A social bookmarking resource list is a dynamic resource list of websites. At any point in time you can add more websites to the list…you are not limited to what you know at the time of printing.
- The use of tags allows you to EASILY reuse your content (aka bookmarks). Instead of creating multiple lists of your favorite websites and then taking the time to carefully format a handout for each event, you simply add tags to your favorite sites and invite users to the social bookmarking website.
- Because your sites are tagged, you can quickly access all of your bookmarks when you need them. Need to find bookmarks related to collaboration? Search for all the bookmarks you tagged with the word collaboration. Need to find the bookmarks you shared at last year’s conference? Search by the tag you used for the event (for example: sxw10).
- By creating and sharing a tag that is unique to your event, you can invite your event attendees to ALSO tag bookmarks related to your event. This approach allows a more comprehensive list and draws upon the collective intelligence of the group. A search of the event tag would reveal the bookmarks you tagged, and the bookmarks your attendees tagged.
- ALL of your bookmarks are kept in one location regardless of the browser you use. No more managing multiple lists/handouts, or searching for your bookmarks on different browsers and/or computers. Visit one website to access your bookmarks and to add new ones.
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Awesome!!
I really like your unique take on using delicious instead of handing out paper lists that get old quickly and don’t grow as new information and resources are discovered. I also appreciate that you point out the collaborative possibilities inherent in delicious…that by sharing our resources in a central and easily accessed location we can have a more resources at our fingertips than if we relied solely on gathering the resources by ourselves.