Have you ever e-mailed a friend or family member and sent them a link to a website you thought they might find interesting? If so, you have participated in social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking is a relatively new technology that has changed the way people experience the Web by allowing users to store, classify, rate, comment on and search links to any website or blog.

Watch this short video to learn more about social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking websites are becoming more and more popular. They allow you to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the favorite’s list of your browser.

Can you think of the benefits of your site being popular on social bookmarking sites?

Below is a list of some of the more popular sites:

• del.icio.us - Currently the most used software application.
• digg - Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
• reddit - Social bookmarking where your votes affect your karma points.
• StumbleUpon - Bookmarking, social networking, friends-network, random browsing within interest-groups.
• Yahoo Search myweb2 beta - A social search engine integrating social bookmarking with search.
• MyProgs - Social bookmarking for programs you use.
• Jumptags - Jumptags.com is a revolutionary Web 2.0 social bookmarking web service for collecting, storing, sharing and distributing web bookmarks, notes, RSS feeds, contacts, and much more. Based on AJAX and other next generation web development techniques, Jumptags.com offers the easiest, fastest, most intuitive and productive way of maintaining and collaborating bookmarks and other internet resources online.

If you visit http://www.popurls.com, you'll see the most popular articles from a number of social networking sites.

Buck Anderson is the President and CEO of Jive Media Group LLC. His expertise in web development and Internet Marketing began in 1997 as senior web developer for a muiti-million dollar company in Central Minnesota. He is an accomplished trainer and consultant for the popular, open source content management systems, DotNetNuke and Magento eCommerce. Buck is recognized throughout the industry as DNN Professor. He is also a respected XMod MVP accomplished in landing pages, forms and database designs.

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