WHAT IS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING?

Social bookmarking is a practice of bookmarking web content and sharing that link with others. To share these links, users save their bookmarks to a web service that then aggregates commonly-tagged bookmarks into publicly accessible lists. Tags are descriptive words that a person uses to describe a link when saving it to to the service.

The new design of Marquette.edu makes it convenient for you to bookmark content to one of five leading services:

• del.icio.us
• Digg
• Google Bookmarks
• Yahoo MyWeb
• Facebook

To bookmark a page using one of the services above, you must have an account with the service. Siging up for a new account is usually quick and most services are free. If you have a Google or Yahoo email account, you may start using each respective service using your email account username and password.*

CAN I START BOOKMARKING NOW?

During the development period (while the content is located at demo.mu.edu/edu/), the links to the social bookmarking services will not be active. This is because the content will be moved from the current location when the site is launched. This will break the links for any bookmarks that are created during the development period.

Once the site is launched, the links to the social bookmarking service will be activated.

*Please note that Marquette has no affiliation with any of the above services and can not provide technical support for using their products.