What is Social Bookmarking and why should "Appraisal Bloggers" care? Good questions! It's been around for a long time but is just now coming to the attention of the blogosphere.
Social bookmarking is the process of setting up an account on one or many of the social bookmarking sites like Technorati, Del.icio.us, MySpace, Stumbleupon, Google Bookmarks, Yahoo My Web, Digg, Spurl and many others. These seem to be the most popular.
Setting up an account on any of these services is quite easy because they don't want your life story, usually just a user name and password. So - the first time you go to these sites it will take a bit longer but once your account is set up, it's a matter of clicking to the site and bookmarking your page.
What is Digg? Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg's Website says:
"From the biggest on-line destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information on-line."
How do they do that? Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images to Podcasts — is submitted by their community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of their visitors to see. (click here - How Digg works)
For example . . .If you liked this article, or one on black listing, market analysis, etc., you'd click the Digg hyper link at the bottom of the post and that would be registered as a vote that this was an article you found interesting and think should be shared with others.
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