Social+Bookmarking

 //Social Bookmarking// is a //knowledge and resource management system//, a way to create, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages. Instead of storing bookmarks on one computer, social bookmarking sites provide online storage, and enable you to organize your bookmarks with "tags" (keywords), annotate them, and access them from any computer with Internet. Additionally, you can share bookmarks with others and you can peruse others' bookmarks. Bookmarks can also be categorized as "private" so that only you can view them.

Social Bookmarking Sites
 * Delicious
 * [|SiteMark]
 * diigo

Web 2.0 Vocabulary

A **tag** is a user-assigned keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information." (//[|Wikipedia])// There is no pre-defined list of acceptable terms. Tags allow users to define what a site or article means to them, assign it to a particular teacher or subject, and provide multiple access points. Users can add as many or as few tags as they feel appropriate to describe the article or website.

"**Folksonomy** (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content." ([|Wikipedia])

Tags are often displayed as tag "clouds," visual depictions of user-generated [|tags] used typically to describe the content of web sites or information on Web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color." //([|Wikipedia])// Clicking on a word in a tag cloud generally takes one to a list of items with that tag.

An example of a tag cloud can be found in the left-hand column of this page under the links to the different pages in this wiki. It was created by "tagging" each page of the wiki with appropriate terms and then using the built-in tag cloud widget to form the tag cloud.