Courtney L. Lewis
Keeping track of online sources isn't just about bookmarking anymore, it's about creating lists, offering viewers context, and really keeping readers on track, sometimes with added features like highlighting and annotations. Here are some great tools that might prove useful.
Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community. Highlighting, annotations and list creation is all possible not only through your computer but also through your iPad, Android phone and iPhone. Highly collaborative, Diigo allows you to create lists with friends and friends you haven't get met to get the most out of crowdsourcing.
Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service. One of the first heavy-hitting bookmarking sites, Delicious has received a major update in the last few years in terms of it's appearance and users can still follow other people or topics to receive suggestions for their bookmarks.
Sqworl makes it easy to organize and share multiple links with just one url. Easy and clean visual bookmarking.
Pearltrees lets you have all your interests at your fingertips all the time. A visual representation of your bookmarks.
Keep your frequently used websites online and make it your start page. Allows users to construct webpages of links with thumbnails of the sites listed.
Explore the best bundles on Arts & Design, Business, Education & Science, Entertainment, Lifestyle, News, Places, and Technology. Precurated lists available for searching, but in terms of bookmarking, this site offers similar features than the others on this list. However, the interface is really lovely - a nice clean block for each link and it handles a variety of media in an attractive way.
Based on a model that looks like Pinterest, Learnist is closer to MentorMob or EdCanvas where you can link together almost any format or source imaginable into a step by step understanding of a topic.
LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the web, create an online binder for content curation
The most widely used system for creating research guides and sharing knowledge, all of which help patrons focus their research. You can search curated lists of sources and information but have to pay a user fee to create them yourself. On my wish list!
Pinterest is an online pinboard.
