Folksonomy and tag categories got your eyes crossed?
Has social bookmarking started controlling you rather than the other way around?
The Addiction
Hi. My name is Liz and I’m a social bookmarker.
At first I just did it on the weekends to keep track of a few sites and articles I liked. Then I started social bookmarking to get new ideas. Soon it became a daily habit–once, then twice, then many times a day. I got to recognize submitters names and tastes. I started submitting myself–things I saw that I liked.
Social bookmarking utilities were both a great boon and a great downfall to my productivity. I could go there to find a passel of spectacular ideas. But more and more I found myself lost in an enchanted forest, thinking I’d leave after the next look, or the next, or maybe the next. The disorganization of the folksonomy became an addiction–I kept thinking the next title I saw might be the fabulous prize I was looking for. It was intellectual gambling.
That’s when I knew I needed help, and I found it at Quick Online Tips.
The Prescription
Finally, someone has collected tools and tips from all over the Internet to help Social Bookmarking addicts.
Great Find: Absolutely Del.icio.us – Complete Tool Collection from Quick Online Tips
Type of article: List of posts on tools for using Del.icio.us
Permalink: http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/02/absolutely-delicious-complete-tool.html
Audience: Anyone wants to make the most of social bookmarking
Content: This list offers well over 100 posts that discuss how to use del.icio.us to get the most out of it. You’ll find the Beelerspace Beginners Guide as well as the popular Slacker Manager post, the Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us users. Most of the hints and helps here will work with any social bookmarking utility you use.
Click the screenshot to begin a new life of tackling that taxonomy.
If you try this at home, don’t read the entire list at one sitting. Choose one or two to explore each morning. Then come back to tag my best work to share with your friends. 🙂
Benefits for the “Magic Middle Man”
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool for research, idea generation, and promoting your business. It’s a great way for those of us in the Magic Middle to exert our control as an audience. Learning how to use it efficiently and effectively can
- boost personal productivity,
- offer ideas to promote your brand and your business,
- provide a venue to showcase your best work to a wide audience,
- and has an immediate, if short-lived impact, that may gain a few new readers.
Of course, I exaggerated the downside of social bookmarking at the start of this article, but the temptation to spend too much time exploring is also very real. How do you keep social bookmarking from eating up your time? How do you use it to its best advantage?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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never really been into del.ici.ous only on the odd occassion – I guess my subconcious knows I’ll get addicted to it pretty damn quick 😉
But thanks Liz, as before I get addicted I want to understand how best to use it (productivity, info overload etc) so …that link is going in my bookmarks.
Hey Martin,
Caught you just as I was getting ready to do some clean up on my machine. . . .
That’s right. You tag that post and put it in your bookmarks on del.icio.us. Then you don’t ever read it or any of the others that you also tag with tags that you don’t remember what they stand for. Be sure to have the following tags–all of them: blog, blogs, blogging, bloggers, top bloggers, blog productivity, blogging productivity, writing blogs, blog content, sucessful blogs, sucessful blogging and LIz
Liz
… and that’s when my head explodes from the overload 😉
It was that last tag. Wasn’t it?
I always have that effect on people.
Darn I hate that.
Liz
Yeah, that and the fact that I’ll tag everything and never ever read/remember/care about it again.
At the end of the day, I’m a lazy person 🙂 … I’d rather have the delicious links to my 10 or so favorite bloggers and simply skim from their tags – eg: I visit Steve Reubel’s delicious page every so often and let him do all the work 🙂
You too? That’s the way I do it.
I have about three tags on my own page and then I let everyone else do all of the tagging for me. On every one of the social bookmarking networks.
I still end up falling in love with all of the titles.
Liz
I guess that’s the yin and yang of social bookmarking: those in love with tagging keep feeding us who just don’t want to tag – it’s a win/win for all.
I’m starting to think that there’s a song in there some where. We belong together. . . .
Imagine without us all of those social bookmark flying saucers would eventually tipover from the sheer weight of all the tags and come crashing down to Earth like meteors.
Liz