Social Bookmarking...WOW!

Until this week, my technologically-slow self had never heard of social bookmarking.  Now, I'm in love with it.  For years, I have bemoaned the sad state of my Internet Explorer Favorites.  They are hard to organize and not accessible except from my personal laptop.  Thanks to http://www.delicious.com/ and http://www.diigo.com/, I will never have to struggle with either of those issues again.

Social bookmarking allows me to not only store my bookmarks on the web; I can "tag" them with keywords that will help me sort and filter them when I need to locate only the ones, say, on math strategies.  I may also highlight text I may want to find again and leave notes or comments about my sites and the sites of others.  Since the bookmarks are stored on the Internet, they are available to me everywhere I may work instead of limited to one computer.  Furthermore, with social bookmarking I can share my links with others in my network and access their bookmarks as well. 

My personal social bookmarking sites can be found at http://www.delicious.com/mdt0430 and http://www.diigo.com/user/townsendm07.  As a new user, I am exploring the benefits and disadvantages of each of these major social bookmarking services.  Both have similarities and differences, but I am only beginning to get to know them.  More comprehensive analysis of both services will come later.