Social Bookmarking Reflection

This lesson on social bookmarking is very interesting and helpful. I really like the idea of having a portable book mark list. I need to use it more and get organized with all the bookmark lists I have already on my numerous workstation’s browsers (work, school, personal, etc.). The highlighting and sticky notes are great tools for studying. I do a lot of my research online and it gets really tedious printing so many pages. To avoid this, I can use the sticky notes and highlighting tools to sort through my research instead of doing it all in hard copy. This saves a ton of paper, and it’s a lot less paperwork for me to carry around so that I can work on my research at any point as long as I have internet access.

I don’t see a use for this for my organization. I mostly see this as a tool to get organized in my personal, work, and school lives. For my job I have to access many different websites for information on students. Sometimes it’s difficult to remember the paths for the search engines on these sites (i.e. PeopleSoft). So that’s where the sticky notes can help. I can also use the sticky notes to remember the passwords. All I would have to do it log into one account and have access to all my passwords for my numerous accounts at work (i.e. ImageNow, PeopleSoft, Map-works, etc.). The only way I can see my organization using this is for a training tool for new advisors. But that isn’t something I am equipped to create because I am still in training myself. In conclusion, I would use social bookmarking for reach purposes for school, organization at home and work, and password retention.