Social Bookmarking

I will be completely honest.; the idea of social bookmarking threw me into a blender of confusion, frustration, annoyance, apathy and general malaise. So much so that I completely ignored my blog so I would not have to write about it. I felt this way because, imho, social bookmarking seemed to me to be a waste of time and energy. If I want to go find something, I'll find it. If I need to find it again, I'll google the same information and find it again.  No need to hold on to it forever. Well, that may be true to an extent but social bookmarking can be very helpful, especially if you are involved in an ongoing research project. Social bookmarking allows the user to share, organize, search and manage information on the web.

When a person has an interest in a subject and they find some good information on the web, they can bookmark the site. They can share this information with other users interested in the same or a similar topic. The social aspect of this is that users can comment on different articles or sites and rate them. This is helpful because the more popular an article is, the more information it may have in it that could be helpful.

I thought I should try this bookmarking thing and see what its all about. I set up an account with Diigo.com.  I searched around a bit and noticed that there is a group on Diigo dedicated to nutrition.  Nutrition is something that I am passionate about. If it has to do with nutrition or wellness, I am automatically interested. So, I decided to join the group and check out some of the bookmarks they shared. I read a few articles posted and started to get a hang of it. I noticed that there were a number of scholarly articles published so I decided to try an add my own. I have been trying to follow the Weight Watchers program and found an interesting article on the lifestyle diet called "Why Weight Watchers Succeeds". I wrote a brief description of it and tagged with with relevant tags such as "nutrition, health, research, study". I will check back later to see if it got any views!

I also added a few of my own favorite Weight Watchers sites to Diigo. They are: Hungry Girl, The WW Chick and Gina's WW Recipes .

I hope I did it right and I hope that my contributions help someone else looking for some good WW motivation and information.