Finding Happiness in Social Bookmarking

As Social Bookmarking continues to grow and gain acceptance, browsing through old bookmarks are becoming less popular. One of the reasons why I say this is because browsing through bookmarks that allow for you to add to your computer favorite links in a certain way are outdated, frustrating and unmanageable.  Just imagine folders, after folders bookmarking websites not in a neat organized way and if you have more than one computer you may not have the same folders in all computers. So, I feel that I do not have to struggle anymore because of Social Bookmarks like diigo or delicious.  Access to my favorite sites is now fun and organized and most important my bookmarks are kept safe online and I can access them from any computer. My favorites on delicious are now organized, click here and see for yourself.  I like how each link has a site picture, I have added tags, descriptions I can edit, remove. I am able to share my delicious with others and I can even use the delicious blog.  

I found similarities with the use of diigo all of my favorite links are organized,  I was able to add tags, descriptions, remove and I can also share my diigo with others either by sending messages or joining their blog.  But what I liked the most about my diigo, click and see, was the page set up it seemed more organized, user friendly, colorful and I can check into a group, review group categories, I can go into community and read bookmarks that are hot and make comments. I enjoyed adding my favorite links to diigo and even though they are the same links used for delicious. I felt more comfortable and less intimidated using diigo than delicious.  It is still early to determine if my fascination with diigo will last since I am still learning how to use it.  But I hope to master the app and use it more often. Another feature that I want to share and I think it is an important reason why I enjoyed learning about delicious and diigo is that with both bookmarks the idea of saving pages has become easier, I can now browse and share the results of my bookmark with Facebook and Twitter.  Diigo has also an advantage over delicious, I can now highlight the page that is being bookmarked making it easier to retrieve the information at a later date.

Another Social Bookmark very popular, especially among Facebook members is Pinterest. I was first introduced to Pinterest through Facebook a few months back. It all started with pretty pins of doors, decorating entrance doors.  I love images of doors and beautiful entrances with lots of flowers and color so I knew I wanted that pin and that is how I got to join Pinterest and Pinterest has become my best friend I now have three Pinterest accounts the most recent opened account is the Pinterest dedicated to all library thing and I wish to share with all of you, so click and see.  What I find most attractive about Pinterest is that it lets me think and learn to organize. I enjoy sharing all of the beautiful things that I have found on the web. I have heard that some people actually use pinboards to plan parties or change the decorations at home.  Viewing Pinterest has been therapeutic, I have used Pinterest to get ideas about decorating doors. Pinterest has allow me to share with my friends on Facebook, browse through all the interesting pinboards, discover new things and get inspiration from people who share my interest.

When it came to creating the QR Code, at first I was reluctant not understanding its importance. It became a challenge as I had to figure out what to do with my Google site.  I think I struggled more creating my google site page than with anything else.  I struggle deciding what I wanted my Google site page to look like and what type of messages or information the page was about. I then realized that I wanted it to be a page for parents and care givers to get ideas on Early Literacy and it would be a page that would be constantly updated with new ideas, information and tools for teaching Early Literacy. The page is still in its early stage to view this page, but please scan below the QR Code to view my page.  

 

 

 While discussing with some library friends about QR Code, I learned that QR Codes are being used in some libraries. One library that is using QR Codes to announce Library services is Broward County Public Libraries “Free Books Posters”.

Finally, let me add that if I was given the choice to choose which Social Bookmark would be my app of choice to work with, share and maintain as a link to communication, it would most likely be Pinterest, the reason is very simple, Pinterest and is visual bookmarking services offers users certain advantages that diigom does not offer. Diigo does not show thumbnails on bookmarked images. I see Pinterest like a visual scrapbooking (I enjoy Scrapbooking!). Another reason is that Pinterest as a Social Bookmark allows consumers to promote products and services for free. So, I thought why not use Pinterest to promote library services and programs  and even share with others different pins taken about the library or even adding pins that share library announcement.  I guess there is no stopping creativity!!!