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What is Social Bookmarking?

In social bookmarking, thousands of people keep their bookmark collections on a website instead of on just one computer. Doing so brings several big advantages.

 Bookmarks Anywhere - Keeping your bookmarks on a website allows you to access your favorite websites from anywhere. Your bookmarks are available and always backed up no matter which computer you use.

 Find Stuff Other People Like - And even better, you can see what other people have found and share bookmarks with your friends. Bookmarks can be kept private, but most are public and available for everyone to see. See who has the same interests as you!

 Find the Best of Web through People, not Machines - In social bookmarking, you only find the bookmarks that other people think are worth keeping. Ma.gnolia ratings and tags instantly give you an idea of what people think of a bookmark, making your web searches more informed than ever. It’s like having a community of assistants help you find what you need, when you need it.

What is Tagging?

Tags are keywords given to bookmarks that act like labels for making them easy to find later. Instead of making a folder with a name and putting bookmarks into it, you give tags to bookmarks to describe the website they point to. Individual tags are separated by commas, so they can have spaces and special characters. Some tag examples are: food, Romeo & Juliet, best in show.

 Organizing Without Thinking - Each tag someone gives a bookmark is a way to find that bookmark when you need it. Just by searching for a tag or clicking it, you instantly find all bookmarks with that tag in your collection or from all users. Tags allow you to reorganize bookmarks just the way you need them at any time, without even trying.

 Adding Tags - You can add tags in a couple of ways when you edit the details for a bookmark: by typing them or by selecting from your tags in the Tag Viewer.

• When you start to type a tag, Ma.gnolia tries to find the tags in your collection that start with the letters you are typing. When it finds one or more matches, you will see them in a list that appears. Just select and click or press the TAB key to add the selected tag to the list. Tag Type-ahead helps you keep tags consistent and saves you keystrokes.
• The second way to add tags is to add them from the Tag Viewer a little lower on the page. The blue tags are those that are not assigned to the bookmark you are editing, so when you click them they are added. Tags that have been added to the bookmark are green, and clicking those tags will remove them from the list of tags for this bookmark. It’s like an on-off switch for adding and removing tags.

 Finding Through Tags - When you click a tag in Ma.gnolia, it’s an instant search for bookmarks that have that tag. Combine tags in your searches, and you’ve got a way to create instant lists of just the bookmarks you need, whatever the occasion.

The Ma.gnolia Community

What good is it to see other peoples’ bookmarks if you can’t talk about them? Ma.gnolia gives members ways to share and discuss bookmarks one-on-one or in special interest groups created by members for members.

 Contact Lists - Chances are you’ll find bookmark collections that you like. When another Ma.gnolia member catches your interest, add them to your Contact List, found under People. Once you do, you can easily send bookmarks and invitations to groups to make a personal connection.

 Groups - Groups allow invited Ma.gnolia users to gather around a collection of bookmarks. A Ma.gnolia group can be a powerful resource for collecting bookmarks in any kind of team project, or it can just be a place for a group of friends to hang out and share stuff. Group Managers always have the option of making group contents visible to members only, so keeping some secrets and being yourself in a group is easy.

The details of a bookmark that you add to a group can be different from the same bookmark in your collection. So what is a three star bookmark in your collection might be a five-star bookmark in a group about a certain topic. This gives you the flexibility to make the best possible contributions to a group, while not having to change your personal collection.

Why is Ma.gnolia Different?

 Social Bookmarking With Ma.gnolia - How is Ma.gnolia different from other social bookmarking services? It starts with making the social side of social bookmarking work better. With contacts, groups and different ways to share bookmarks both within and outside of Ma.gnolia, we make working together on a casual basis or more formal projects fun and easy.

 More Advanced Bookmark Information - Bookmarks in Ma.gnolia are more than just entries in a database. Each one tells a little story about the websites that they help you find again. Ma.gnolia makes bookmarks richer with a number of features:

• Bookmark Privacy - We don’t tell everyone everything about ourselves, so you should be able to keep some of your online interests private, right? Ma.gnolia lets you make individual bookmarks private, so they will be visible only to you.

• Bookmark Ratings - Not all websites are created equal, and some are just plain better than others. Use our five-star rating system to remind yourself and to show others what you think of a website’s quality. Just click the number of stars you want to give a bookmark, and remember that you can only rate bookmarks in your collection or that you add to groups.

• Saved Copies of Web Pages - When you add a bookmark to Ma.gnolia, we rush around in the background to save a copy of that web page for your future viewing. Never again will you be lost if a web page moves or gets deleted. Ma.gnolia’s saved copies have got you covered, so that what you find stays found. For more information, see our FAQ item on this subject.

• We’re Sweet To Look At! - We admit it, we’re proud of our design. But it’s much more than just eye candy, as we believe that people work better when they work with something that pleases the senses. The pretty face of Ma.gnolia doesn’t sacrifice usability, either. We place a premium on being easy to understand for people who don’t know or care about how something works - they just plain want it to work.

• Featured Linkers - We’ve caught the attention of some interesting people around the web and beyond. Find out what cool and thoughtful personalities like the people you know from NPR’s ’All Things Considered’, Ted Allen from ’Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ or world-famous foodie Alton Brown are marking in Ma.gnolia.

publisher-author

Gnolia Systems LLC

License

Free

Created

2005/03/15

Updated

2006/10/5

Platform

all Platforms

Money Back

n/a

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