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About six months or so ago I became a big fan of Delicious.  For a long time I didn’t use it, because I didn’t see the point of keeping my bookmarks online.  Then, as I got more interested in all of the resources available online, I knew I needed to go with it for two reasons:

1. There are too many resources!  I’m up to nearly 400 bookmarks now, which is simply too much to keep efficiently organized in my bookmarks menu.
2. Not wasting my efforts.  I’d see something at work that I’d want to review later at home, or I’d find something at home that I could use at work with my students.  Online bookmarking solves that problem handily.

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A few months back, after checking out the options available, I switched over to using Diigo.  It offers more options, and has some nice grouping features.  Also, I primarily use it because it can send links to delicious every time I make a new bookmark, and would import from delicious when I started, but delicious doesn’t offer the same options.  This way I have a backup of my bookmarks, as well as access to tools that interact with delicious.  This way, too, if I’ ever someplace that blocks one but not the other, I won’t find myself lost in the middle of a lake without a paddle.

Like most of the social networking tools, I more or less exclusively use it as a professional resource.  I do the personal posting thing in Twitter to some degree because everybody does, and it’s what makes the community a way of getting to know people, but I’m really there for interacting with other educators.  This blog primarily, but not always, deals with education.  Any nings I belong to are education-related, and of the major social networking sites, the only one I’m on is LinkedIn, a professional resource.  Diigo is the same for me.  It’s all about things tangentially related to education.

One of the ideas I hit pretty early on, and have become increasingly consistent about, has been using my online bookmarking as a kind of developing online resume.  Now, whenever I comment on a blog, I always make sure to tag it with commented.  This way, every once in a while I can go back, take a look at the things I recently tagged that way, and go back for followup discussion.  No more asking for e-mails of followup, which clog my inbox.  No more subscribing to another RSS feed for only one thread of comments.  I know some people use CoComment to keep track of this stuff, but it doesn’t support Safari.

Any other tips out there for getting the most of these kinds of tools?  I know I need to start looking at the social part of social bookmarking a little bit more, but I’m sure people use them for all sorts of clever things I’m not thinking of.

As a bonus, here’s a Wordle of my tags:

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