What is Social Bookmarking?

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking is storing, organizing, and sharing your favorite links (websites, articles, posts, news, products, etc.) online with a community.

What are the benefits?

When you bookmark something to your internet browser, your favorite site is only available to you on that machine. If, however, you bookmark your site online, your favorite sites are available to you at home, work, school, and anywhere you have access to the internet.

For example, you can have a personal account that you share your favorite links with friends. Or you can have a work account to share business link resources with co-workers.

Social Bookmarking & Link Sharing Buttons

Using the Damn Sexy Bookmarks WordPress plug-in by Norman Yung, you will find the following link sharing options.

Email – Allows you to send the article via email.

Digg – Allows you to submit stories to their network and Digg, or rate them.

Browser Plugins: Firefox Digg extension creates a Digg toolbar.

Works with: BlogCatalog, FriendFeed, Facebook, Myspace, Netvibes, and more.

Delicious – Allows you to add, categorize (by adding tags) and share online bookmarks. Learn more about ways to use Delicious social bookmarking.

Browser Plugins: Firefox Delicious extension and Internet Explorer Delicious extension creates a Delicious toolbar.

Works with: BlogCatalog, Facebook, Friendfeed, and more.

Facebook – Allows you to share links with your friends on your Facebook Profile.

Browser Plugins: Firefox Facebook extention creates a Facebook toolbar.

Works with: BlogCatalog, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and more.

Mixx – Allows you to share and rate links, as well as join groups based on interest.

StumbleUpon – Allows you to add bookmarks and organize using tags. Using the toolbar, you can also set favorite topics for your account and hit the Stumble button to view random pages that other members have liked (great for moments of sheer boredom).

Browser Plugins: Firefox StumbleUpon extension and Internet Explorer StumbleUpon extension create StumbleUpon toolbars.

Works with: BlogCatalog, Facebook, Friendfeed, and more.

Twitter This – Takes you directly to Twitter with the title and link of the post in the message box.

Works with: BlogCatalog, Facebook, Friendfeed, Netvibes, and more.

Reddit – Allows you to add and rate links. Similar to Delicious, except with the rating system.

Works with: BlogCatalog.

What if I have more than one Social Bookmarking account?

You can use services, such as Social Marker to submit to 50 Social Bookmarking networks, including the ones I described above.

Browser Plugins? For Firefox, they have a drag-able icon () on their homepage that you can add to your Firefox bookmark toolbar, so you can submit any site you are looking at by clicking on that link.

You can also install browser bookmarklets onto your browser that will send the link to the site you are on to your favorite social bookmarking service, social network, or url shortening service.