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Social Bookmarking: Final release

Today's release has seen the completion of the final step in our implementation of Social Bookmarking functionality to me.edu.au.

For those that are unfamiliar with Social Bookmarking, me.edu.au's new Social Bookmarking will help you store your favourite websites and share them with your colleagues. It allows you to create your own filing convention by using 'tags' to name your selection of websites. For instance if you found a great website on Australian poetry, you could 'tag' it as English, Poetry, Australian, Australian Poetry etc.

Each me.edu.au user now has their own Bookmarks page called 'My Bookmarks '. The 'My Bookmarks' page allows you to organise your favourite sites. You can edit the bookmark title, description and community tags, as well as delete the bookmark completely. You can also highlight resources of particular interest using the new highlighting functionality.

me.edu.au Social Bookmarking will also recognise the bookmarks from other Social Bookmarking sites such as delicious and diigo and will add these automatically to your 'My Bookmarks' page. You can also control whether any other feeds you have added to your me.edu.au profile will flow directly through to your bookmarks page by going to the feeds tab on your 'edit profile' page. You can add new RSS feeds here from other places you are active, e.g. Twitter or external blogs, and use the tick boxes to decide what gets bookmarked.

Bookmarks added by me.edu.au users can be found through the search functionality and also the 'Bookmarks' filter on the search page. Your own bookmarks will appear higher on the search result list but you will also see what else has been bookmarked by me.edu.au users. You can visit your colleague's profiles and their Bookmark pages, and save any bookmarks of interest you find to your own page using the Bookmark icon.

Building on what has been released so far this year, me.edu.au will now notify you when someone has made a comment on an item you have bookmarked. You can control these notifications by going to 'edit profile' and then clicking on the notifications tab. Once you have made your choices, click save changes.

What other changes have happened in me.edu.au in the lead up to this release?

• Share and Add Bookmark bar - When viewing the 'My View' and 'My Bookmarks' pages, you will now see a box which says 'Add a link or a message'. This is where you can add new bookmarks. Just paste in the URL of the resource you want to bookmark (making sure to include http:// at the start), add any special tags or names of me.edu.au communities you are a member of and that you want to share the resource to, and add a description.

• Made a mistake?  - You can edit the title, description and tags of your bookmarks by editing them on your 'My Bookmarks' page.

• Commenting - As mentioned previously you may have noticed the new commenting functionality for resources shared in me.edu.au. You can now view who else has bookmarked and commented on the same resource, and contribute further to the conversation by going to the 'more details' page for a particular resource.

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Posted at 05:05PM Sep 29, 2009 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[2]