Tool 5: Tagging and Social Bookmarking

I just finished creating an account for both accounts, but it seems that Delicious only works with yahoo, so it seems like it may make more sense to use Diigo.. From what I can tell they both seem t0 be user friendly, meaning that for the average joe when it comes to computers that these two applications are pretty simple to use and self explanatory. I do like the concept of being able to bookmark over the web, and then being able to access it from any computer, because I have noticed that I have bookmarked sites on my personal laptop and when I want to access them on my work laptop that I can never seem to find the site again. I even try performing a google search where I try to retrace my steps to find the site again, but 6 out of 10 times am unsuccessful, and then I am the type of person to retry the same steps in hopes that it may pop up for me, which it usually never does. This tool will help me in bookmarking pages that I can have access from anywhere with a computer and internet access, possibly even from my phone in the near future. Not sure how that will pan out because the browsers are not the same, but if it is a host site that stores the bookmarks it may work, but just haven't ever thought to try it out from my phone. I used just two generic sites for testing purposes, but these sites happen to relate to my field of profession (Health Fitness)

http://health.msn.com/
http://tahperd.org/

However the second site is very useful, because it talks about a lot of the legislation that takes place in regards to our field of profession (health fitness) again.

I could see the social bookmarking tool being extremely useful when it comes to like research projects, because then they could easily access the bookmarks from any computer without having to jot down the site or emailing it to themselves, and then having to pull up their emails and signing in and then going back to the sites, this would be a faster reference tool for them at the touch of their fingertip and very manageable. As far as Health Fitness, I think it would be easier for us to hotlink it like we did here for this blog, and then have our students follow our blog to stay up to date, or explore the web page in their own recreational time.