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Using Bookmarks

What useful thing will I be able to do after reading this chapter.

"And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom, seek learning even by study and also by faith; Organize yourselves…"(Doctrine and Covenants 109:7-8).

“Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have his or her voice heard, and it is revolutionizing society..." One of the challenges of the Internet is to find those sites and pages that are most helpful and then come back to them when needed from any location. Bookmark tools give us these features and many more, which allow us to more effectively seek learning out of the best Internet publications and then share those sites with others. Here we will outline how you can utilize bookmarking tools for personal use and for sharing what you have found with others.

Tool Family


 * Bookmark sharing sites

Tool Names
 * del.icio.us
 * BookmarkSync (private bookmarking, created to give you your bookmarks at any cpu)
 * Digg (voting on the bookmarked links sets this one apart)
 * Furl
 * Ma.gnolia
 * Simpy
 * StumbleUpon
 * CiteULike (for sharing scientific references)
 * Connotea (similar to CiteULike; for scientists, researchers, and clinicians)

Tool History and Context

The roots of bookmarks begin in web browsers with the ability to track sites that have been visited by a user. This tracking creates a history of places you've been. As web page tracking evolved a new spin off soon appeared--the bookmark or favorite’s list. These lists were created as user controlled tools. You chose what to add to the list, how to organize your list and then you could access the list and come back to your marked sites at any time. These useful lists only show up on the computer where they were added; they don't follow the user.

This lack of flexibility presented a challenge for those with multiple computers. They needed the bookmarks to follow them and not their computer. To overcome this obstacle online bookmarking sites were created which allowed you access to your bookmarks from any computer with internet access!

Users had created bookmark lists that were stored online. Having them online made them all that much easier to share with other people and that is exactly what happened. People began to make their lists available to others so they could see the sites that were marked by others. Web tools like del.icio.us sprung up and began to add other features. A couple of those features include, showing how many people had bookmarked a site that you marked, and assigning tags, or keywords, to your bookmarks so you could quickly search and find the needed bookmark even if your personal lists contains hundreds of sites.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a way to gather, organize, search, share, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet. People save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. This is usually done using a service like delicious. With services like delicious bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. You can access bookmarks through different channels: tags, chronologically, folders, search engine, etc.

Tags seem to be the trend and most commonly used organization method for large amounts of social bookmarks.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features.

What Does It Do?

Imagine a book with thousands, perhaps millions, of pages. In this book pages are constantly being created and added to random places. What would be the best way to find something you have read or mark places you would like to come back to? Bookmarks of course! In one sense the internet is this ever-growing searchable, editable, ever-changing book. Web bookmarks allow you to mark and come back to certain pages on the internet repeatedly without losing them. Social bookmarking allows you to see what others are marking. Many feel that when enough people are searching and bookmarking web pages then the cream will come to the top and less useful pages will remain in the background. The key to bookmarking a web page is putting it where you can find it later. In the Favorites or Bookmark menus of web browser, you can create folders and name them appropriately to sort and store the links in ways you can track them later. (Main features of the tool) Delicious specifically: •	Allows you to build a collection of bookmarked websites. •	Allows you to tag your bookmarks to easily access them in the future. •	Gives you the ability to share your bookmarks. •	You can see others favorite bookmarks. •	You can see the most popular bookmarks.

How Is the Tool Commonly Used?

Generally, using your Favorites or Bookmarks option on your browser menu is easier to use than the history. When you are on a web page you simply click on the Favorites or Bookmarks button and add it to the list, if needed, you can add it to a specific folder.

Actual real life use of the tool. I’m often working on articles months in advance, finding applicable web pages and blog posts that will help me put together my story. I can often tell at a glance that this will be helpful for this story or that, but I don’t want to write it now. I just want to bookmark it so I can come back to it when I do my research and writing. Use case A few Gospel use cases. Use case 3 Personal learning. Gospel newsletter. Sharing.

How Do I Use It? (Tutorial on the Key Feature(s) 	Screenshots with detailed instructions 	Screencasts

Where Are Other Free Online Tutorials? http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english http://www.slideshare.net/ggrosseck/using-delicious-in-education/20

How Can I Use This Tool to Share the Gospel? (Focus on practical things)

Many bookmark sites have specialties. As I searched some, it became apparent that there are more bookmarks for media based sites. Others focused on politics and others on academic realms. Surely there would be a place for a religious bookmark group...particularly one centered around things that could help people and answer their questions and that help get the type of content out on the web that is on mormon.org. How would you get that to spread to a circle of people that is not already LDS?

Gospel Principles Embodied in the Tool

"Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have his or her voice heard, and it is revolutionizing society. Before the Internet there were great barriers to printing. It took money, power, influence, and a great amount of time to publish. But today, because of the emergence of what some call “new media,” made possible by the Internet, many of those barriers have been removed. New media consists of tools on the Internet that make it possible for nearly anyone to publish or broadcast to either a large or a niche audience. I have mentioned some of these tools already. The emergence of new media is facilitating a worldwide conversation on almost every subject, including religion, and nearly everyone can participate. This modern equivalent of the printing press is not reserved only for the elite.” (Elder Ballard, Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet, Ensign, July 2008)

Imagine a book that consists of thousands, perhaps millions, of mini books or large chapters. In this book pages are constantly being created and added to random places. What would be the best way to find something you have read or mark places you would like to come back to? How would someone be able to find the "best books" as they seek after "words of wisdom" and try to find the truth? One answer to that is bookmarks! In one sense the internet is this ever-growing searchable, editable, ever-changing book. Web bookmarks allow you to mark and come back to certain pages on the internet repeatedly without losing them. Social bookmarking allows you to see what others are marking. This would be similar to finding someone else's "internet book" and seeing what they have marked and what they feel is important. Bookmark sharing is one fast and good way to share the gospel with others. Using normal bookmarks is an ideal way for you to personally track gospel-related web pages that you may want to return to in the future. One obligation we have as latter-day saints is to ensure that the choices we make in the use of new media are choices that "expand our mind, increase our opportunities, and feed our soul." Bookmarks can be used to help us achieve these goals.

Many feel that when enough people are searching and bookmarking web pages then the cream will come to the top and less useful pages will remain in the background. As latter-day saints we should use this marvelous tool to seek learning out of the best internet “books.” Likewise we can share those with others so that they can partake of the light of Gospel which will enlarge the soul and mind and is “desirable above all other” things (1 Nephi 8:12).

The key to bookmarking a web page for yourself is putting it where you can find it later. There are many tools to do this; some have a sharing feature and some do not. For example, in the Favorites or Bookmark menus of your web browser, you can create folders and name them appropriately to sort and store the links in ways you can track them later.

IDEAS TO FLESH OUT S SECTION (Bring out LESSER KNOWN WEBSITES: feastupontheword.org; get unknown sites out in the open. Use social bookmarking as a Lowtech newsletter. Gospel doctrine teachers. Using the group in Diigo (ward or family) How can bookmarks be used to perfect the saints; preach the gospel and redeem the dead?)

Expanded discussion of best books just an intro to it in the beginning. Sharing, Discussion, Explanation, Genealogy Practical ideas and tips ("Try This")

Tip (whatever is needed to help and real life uses) In both Firefox and Internet Explorer, you can quickly bookmark a page through the Right Click menu or CTRL+D. Try it out by opening your web browser. Type in mormon.org in the address bar and go to the site. Once there hold done the Ctrl button and hit the letter D. A pop up box will appear showing you where it is being stored in your favorites or bookmark list. Click add or done and then it is there! To access it in the future just go to your favorites or bookmarks button at the top of your web browser. The icon and name of the site should be there; click on that link to return to that page at anytime.

Tip You don’t even have to visit a web page to bookmark it or mark it as a Favorite. If a link goes to an article that looks of interest, but you don’t want to read it now, you can bookmark it in Firefox with a Right Click over the link and select Bookmark This Link. In Internet Explorer, Right Click and choose Add to Favorites. Both popup the Bookmarks or Favorite Menu so you can save it in a specific folder.

Tip If you have a various web pages open in different tabs in either Firefox or Internet Explorer you can bookmark all the tabs at once. Click on the bookmarks or favorites button to open the menu for your bookmark manager. From there click on add tab group to favorites or bookmark all tabs.

Tip You can use your bookmark manager or organizer to open all the tabs in a folder, or open them one at a time.

How Can This Tool Affect My Family? What dangers or issues (addiction issues, predators, &c.) are specific to this tool, what filters are available, &c.

Frequently Asked Questions section? Hardware, software, bandwidth requirements, &c. Other Resources If you want to do this... try this...

Accessing Your Browser History

Both Internet Explorer and Firefox keep track of where you visit during the day and for a week or more of your online explorations. This is handy if you close a tab or window and later remember there was something of value. Using the History panel, you can track down the page.

To access the History panel, click History from the button bar or menu or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+H in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Firefox also features a listing of the most recently visited pages on the History menu, along with other options to help you trace your online history. Internet Explorer 7 combines the History browser into Favorites called the “Favorites Center”.

Your History pages can be searched but only by words in the title or link such as the post title and blog name. The search doesn’t search through the content. You can sort them by Date, Site/URL, Most Visited, and Last Visited.

In the History browser window, you can quickly add any link to your Favorites or Bookmarks through the Right Click menu.