I’ve made a bit of a site redesign this week and want to highlight the MentalHealth Bookmarks (right sidebar). I’ve created a tag for my social bookmarks related to “mental health” and each post includes a comment or a quote from the website it refers to.
Using social bookmarks is one of the easiest ways to share information on and about the Web. One advantage of social bookmarks is that they don’t require the IT department’s permission to use. You can start sharing what you find interesting or important with your team or section without any new technology other than a web browser and access to the Internet. You’ll also find that you will be sending a lot fewer e-mails saying, “hey, check this out”. By creating your own “tag” you can have everyone finding information about competitors or new trends. A tag such as “ABC123″ can be used by everyone to identify something for a specific project, and then you can search for that tag and the system will show you what everyone has found.
As you continue to use social bookmarks you will also see others who have bookmarked similar items and then follow their links to show even more interesting stuff in your field of interest. Here are all the Delicious bookmarks tagged with “mental health“. Delicious and other services also let you create networks for sharing. The more you share, the more you learn.
Here is an excellent explanation of social bookmarks in this short video from CommonCraft:
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