Social Bookmarking

Keeping track of the website that we use during various stages of reasearch or as resources for our students is usually done by adding the site to our favourites bar. This allowed us to easily find them again. However, this was only useful when using one computer or lap top. Sharing these sites with our friends involved us writing down the address or literally sitting next to them so that they can see our screen.
The Web 2.0 tool social bookmarking made saveing, tagging and sharing easier. This deliscious solution requires us to save our finds on a public website that can be viewed by anyone anywhere with access to the internet. However, we still need to take the time to organise our sites as well as attach appropriate tags to them so that those looking through would be better able to benefit from our resources.
I find this an extremely useful tool especially since we are a small community of reading specialists who need to collaborate to achieve our goals. we all have varying interests (components of reading), different levels of focus ( primary , secondary) and the quantity of time we can spend online varies from person to person. By using this tool we can save each other time as well as add to the quality of our work. This is a really useful tool for personal use as well as to facilitate collaboration.