When I am researching a topic, the part I like least is…well, researching the topic. In today’s society, with technology being what it is, if I want information I should be able to find it “now”. Search engines help a little, but with the amount of information that is out there it seems like every time I “google” something, I end up with more questions – don’t even get me started on bing!
Social networking takes seems like it has the potential of removing all of the pain and suffering from online searches. If someone else has already done the search for me, why should I do it again? If I have friends and colleagues who have the same interests and information needs, why can’t we work together…seperately?
It is really great and offers a lot of great groups out there to join. You then receive the benefit of their bookmarks that will be shared with you. Less work, same interesting topic. Also keeping track of the bookmarks will now be a lot easier and in one place for future reference. Great tool to use with your students as well. They can start collections of their interests or projects in lists and never lose them because they are in the "cloud".
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