Social bookmarking careers information
How do you keep track of the many websites and web pages which might be of interest to yourself, your colleagues and your students? Like an increasing number of careers services, LSE uses social bookmarking.
Of all the many ideas, web technologies and phrases associated with this second generation of the internet, social bookmarking is perhaps one of the easiest concepts, with the most evident implications for careers information.
If you like a website and use it a lot, you may have saved or ‘bookmarked' the site's address to the favourites folder in your web browser. In 2002, several websites started to appear, which allowed you to save these bookmarks onto a website instead of just onto your PC, meaning that you could refer to one, personal webpage, to view all your favourite links no matter where you were.
By applying your own tags to a bookmark, you can categorise your list of favourite websites in a way that makes sense to you. The social aspect of bookmarking websites, comes through the sharing of these bookmarks with other users. If you are curious to know what kind of websites other users are storing under the same tags as you, you can browse a list of websites tagged in the same way, by other users on sites such as Del.icio.us. Results are ranked according to popularity by the users; the people who actually understand and make use of the website's content.
Kezia Richmond of LSE explains how social bookmarks are used in her service:
At LSE, we have started our own account: Del.icio.us/LSECareers. When a member of the careers team mentions a web resource it can be added simply by clicking the ‘post to del.icio.us' button, easily installed on a toolbar, and then classified with tags that we hope will correspond with the many different ways students approach careers information. It has been particularly useful as a way of storing news articles. The BBC, The Guardian , The Times - and now the AGCAS - websites now have the links to various social networking websites at the end of many of their articles.
AGCAS members are invited to go into the LSE account site and see how articles have been tagged. For example, you'll find a list of relevant website and articles about Social Bookmarking under the tag ‘Web2.0' .
Read a longer article by Kezia Richmond of LSE in Phoenix - Winter 2007
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