Web Team have revised the news article pages to include functionality for:
- Easy access to the most popular RSS feeds at City University
- Emailing of articles to friends
- Social bookmarking
What is Social Bookmarking?
Wikipedia defines Social bookmarking as a mechanism that:
“allows user to save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.”
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What does this mean for you?
Social bookmarks allow you to:
- create a centralised archive of bookmarks independent of a specific desktop computer
- manually tag, describe and organise content based upon your understanding of the content rather than relying upon search engine algorithms
- bookmark content priror to its indexing by search engines
- rank referenced media based upon the number of times that it has b een bookmarked or approved by users. This can be a useful metric when trying to understand the relevance of the article or search results
- have a conversation/discussion since some social media websites allow users to leave comments about referenced material.
What does this mean for City University?
Social bookmarking allows users to share City news articles. Therefore social bookmarking provides an additional channel for marketing of the University.
How to get involved
To start to use social bookmarking you will need to register with a website. Popular social bookmarking websites include:
Ma.gnolia is good as well, because you can have private groups for sharing links, plus your link postings get automatically turned into something that looks like a blog, and you can rate items as well as tagging them. And the comments field is bigger than the one on del.icio.us
Social media for City news articles is very useful for me,publish some more articles..
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Shanker
Social Bookmarking