3 Bookmarking Problems and How to Solve Them
Bookmarking is a great way to keep track of articles, posts and pages you like as well as share them with your friends, colleagues and others.
One of the main reasons people bookmark is so they can save an article, page or site they came across online, and this is where we come across the first problem:
1) There’s so many things to read, that though you have good intentions when you bookmark that cool article, the chances of you going back and reading it are slim to none. This is especially true of the online world, where new stuf happens minute after minute – it makes it hard to keep up, and even harder to go back for stuff. Thus you build up a huge overload of information that you never use and which boggles your mind everytime you scroll through it.
The solution: Read in the now and only bookmark articles you’ve read before and want to save for reference or to share with someone else. This will keep the stuff you bookmark to a workable minimum and you’ll already have read the stuff you bookmarked, so its easy to reference.
2) You save everything in the bookmarks folder so there’s no rhyme or reason to it; you have one long, jumbles list of articles you have to sort through to find the ones you want to read.
The solution: Create new folders for specific types of articles. For example: I have one folder for “Cool Web 2.0 Tools,” another for “Article Marketing Sites” and yet another for “Social Media Marketing Articles,” to mention a few. Thus when you save that awesome article in the appropriate folder, it makes it easier to find later one.
3) You have all these great articles, but no really easy way to share them.
The solution: Social Bookmarking. That’s what sites like Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, Stumbleupon, Furl, Propeller, Mixx, Reddit, Newsvine and other bookmarking sites are for. A number of them have export options as well, so you can just import your already-existing bookmarks. This type of bookmarking is more advanced but very, very worth doing. You get the added bonus of a social community centered around those bookmarking sites.
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