Social BookmarksWe provide some useful technical resource pages here. If you find them interesting and informative, you can assist us to popularise these pages by doing one of two things: link to one of our pages from your website, or bookmark an interesting page on a social bookmarking service. For example, on this one:
www.reddit.com
You'll need to create a login there but it only takes a minute - and only the first time of course. The link is on the word 'register' at the top right (a little hard to find).
So, you can:
- Bookmark a page for your own use, to come back to later.
- Keep your large and growing list of bookmarks off your own PC, and on someone else's space.
- Share these bookmarks with others – and you can see and use theirs, as well. It's a community thing. You can keep them private if you want.
- Help us out, as we get a link.
How do you use social bookmarking?You can store all your bookmarks with them. You can have a private list and a public list. So, maybe you're not going to share your bank login page (though it doesn't matter much, when you think about it), but you might as well share the rest.Some of these bookmarking services are fast, some are slow. Some give you a button to put on the toolbars up at the top of your browser page; others don't (you go there via an icon provided on a page you like, or via a browser bookmark). Some have you install (yet another) toolbar, but you can ditch that once you've enlisted, and just pull the relevant button off it; like Stumble.upon, for instance.The whole process is probably easier with the Firefox browser, because it's designed for this sort of thing; but it works with any browser. If you want to store a private list of bookmarks, then you need to register with a genuine email address that they can send an account activation message to.It can take a couple of minutes with the slower ones to set up an account, but once it's done, it's done. Give it a go. Anyway, you're doing this at work, aren't you, so what's the big hurry?What do we get out of it? We get a link, which means that in various ways people can find us more easily. Do a couple for us, and show us it was worth it. It's true that as the link is a nofollow one, its value to us is about 10% of a 'real' website link - but nevertheless it all helps.
LinksWe really appreciate people linking to us. There is more info on this on our NetResources page, accessed on the main menu on the front page. If you can, use our preferred format and link to a page you found helpful. We are happy to discuss this sort of thing at any time.
Get in touchDon't forget you can always get in touch, and let us know if there is something we can do better; or by all means if you wish to discuss anything else. We progress by helping people; it's fun to do, and sometimes we get to places we never would have without that attitude.
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