This week our module was to play around with the social bookmarking sites Delicious.com, Diigo.com and Pinterest. I have done a limited amount of exploring on Pinterest, only after joining for this class. After using all three of the sites, I prefer Pinterest, although it is very different than the other two. Delicious and Diigo are sites that are useful when you are actually on a particular site you want to bookmark. The advantage to bookmarking through these sites as opposed to on your personal computer or laptop is that you will have the bookmarks wherever you go. They will be saved online for you. That is very convenient, especially for those who don't have a laptop to bring everywhere, or just have to use multiple computers for whatever reason. The reason I prefer Pinterest is that you can search a subject or keyword, and all sorts of things that others have "pinned" pop up. They usually lead to links of websites or blog posts. This method is more visually appealing because most of the "pins" are pictures that spark your interest.
For the Pinterest assignment, we were to create two boards and "pin" five items related to libraries to each board. I actually created three boards because I was having so much fun. You can find them here.
After we opened accounts with Delicious and Diigo, we were to bookmark five links to sites about librarians using Web 2.0, five links that were examples of librarians using Web 2.0, and five links to sites about emerging technologies. I can see the appeal of these sites, for the reasons stated earlier, but they were not my favorite. If you want to find out about the sites I bookmarked on Web 2.0 and librarians on Delicious.com, click here. If you want to see the same list in Diigo.com, click here.
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