Welcome to our social bookmarking resources.

By following this link you can find the slides (in Powerpoint format) for the presentation on Social Bookmarking presented to the Minnesota Association of Libraries' (MLA) Academic and Research Libraries Division (ARLD) on April 30, 2007.

This site is maintained by Neal Axton.

I'm a reference librarian at William Mitchell College of Law.

Bookmarking Services

• Furl - Furl is an easy service to use and a good place to start for those new to social bookmarking. Furl is useful for its archival function,  which it allows users to take a snapshot of a webpage and save it. I use this for pages I think will change in the future and for pages behind a firewall where my access ends after a certain period of time, I mark these private to mitigate any copyright issues.

• Ma.gnolia - This service is a robust social bookmarking service with many features and a pleasing visual design. It has real profiles, communities, and even allows you to thank people when you like their bookmarks.

• CiteULike - This service allows you to bookmark papers in subscriptions databases. You can then export to Endnote and Bibtex and for supported databases, CiteULike will even fill in the bibliographic data fields for you.

• Connotea - Connotea is another social bookmarking site that has a large academic community.

• Diigo - This service bills itself as social annotation service. It not only allows you to bookmark the web, but to highlight and leave sticky notes on web pages that are only visible to Diigo users. You can also make these annotations private. It also allows you to post your highlights and annotations to you blog in a couple of clicks.

Multi-Bookmarking Services You can easily try out several bookmarking services with multi-bookmarking software.

• Onlywire - This service allows you to broadcast your bookmarks to all seventeen supported bookmarking services in a couple of clicks. You can choose which services the link will post to, in case you use the different services for different purposes. You can install the bookmark button to your browser or on a website.

• Socializer 2.0 - This service allows you to add a bookmarker button to your toolbar. You can also post a bookmarking button on your website, if it's a supported blog. This isn't a broadcast service like Onlywire, so you have to add to each service iteratively.

• AddThis - AddThis allows you to put a button on any webpage that will link you to most popular bookmarking services. You could use it on your blog, your homepage, or even attach it to each entry in your online catalog.