Social bookmarking, or using tags to organize web pages into a publicly viewable archive online, is becoming increasingly common among nonprofit organizations and supporting technologists. Social bookmarking tools are preferable to browser bookmarks or favorites in a number of ways, including accessibility from any computer, superior detail in archiving and retrieval and the ability to share our bookmarks as a whole or by tag with other people.

Most of the time it seems to me that the conversation about social bookmarking starts with del.icio.us - probably the most popular social bookmarking tool online. There are many more options available, however, and I thought it would be useful to provide some brief explanation of a few alternatives and some things to consider in making your selection.

Check out the new Theme of the Week over on Net2Learn: Tagging and Social Bookmarking for nonprofits. This resource center provides a crash course in tagging and bookmarking for nonprofits, including an explanation of tagging and bookmarking tools (like del.icio.us & flickr) as well as great tips for using tagging and bookmarks to help your nonprofit. 

And whether you're a newbie or an experienced tagging guru with hundreds of del.icio.us bookmarks to your credit, we hope you'll share the insights and resources that have helped you along the way. Join the tagging & bookmarking for nonprofits resource center and you'll be able to add your ideas to our feature on getting started with tagging and bookmarking; or add your favorite resources to our collection of weblinks. And even if you haven't joined the resource center team, you'll be able to add your comments to our forum discussions on how to use tags to collaborate with other nonprofit groups.

I just learned about an article titled The next BIG thing: Tagging your Internet searches. It is about tagging and the different tagging sites.

There's much talk about what Web 2.0 is and what it isn't. TechSoup's done its part to define and clarify some of the terms in its recent article, "What is Web 2.0 Anyway?"

http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/webbuilding/page4233.cfm

This piece doesn't encompass every Web 2.0 technology, rather it's meant to be a jumping-off point. Please feel free to add more Web 2.0 info on this blog or link to other articles on the topic.