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Social bookmarking is a method for users of the internet to organize web pages: where a browser bookmark saves a page address into a private favorites folder, social bookmarking takes the step further and lets users designate whether other people can view their bookmarks. Bookmarks are usually public but can be saved privately or shared only with a specific group, and some systems combine shared and hidden favorites. It has nothing to do with book clubs — the practice is entirely an online phenomenon.
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What is social bookmarking? More importantly, how is it relevant to the fashion industry.
First of all, social bookmarking has nothing to do with your mothers book club. Although you may have pictured in your mind a group of old ladies sitting around sipping tea and helping one another mark the pages of their mutually selected novel, this is simply not the case. The social book marking that is referenced in this article is entirely an online phenomenon. This practice is completely internet based and has nothing to do with either hard cover books nor paperbacks. Even if the book club was reading a fashion book (and reading as a group in a social environment), it would still not be considered social fashion bookmarking...
The tag or keyword is an essential aspect of bookmarking. A tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information. This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are selected by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. On a website in which many users tag many items (such as a social bookmarking site), this collection of tags becomes a folksonomy. If that sounded too complicated, here is an example in English. If I want to tag a website page that helps me shop for a sexy black dress (for my wife not me...), I may wish to create three unique keywords (tags) for the page. I would probably tag the page with the three words "sexy", "black", "dress". If the system allowed for using more then one words separate by commas (phrases), I might try these three, "sexy black dress", "sexy dress" and "black dress".
By the way, another good way to get the word out about your fashion site is to submit a fashion press release. If you submit a release directly or if you go thru a fashion pr company, you can submit articles to Apparel Search for possible publication in our fashion articles section.
If you work in the fashion industry, please join us for discussions about fashion, clothing, textiles, or apparel at the Fashion Industry Network.
Make sure you tag responsibly... Also, don't drink and drive.
A few social bookmarking websites: Delicious, Diigo, Stumbleupon, Digg, and Reddit.
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Before feeds decided what everyone saw, shared favorites were a discovery engine. A bookmarking service aggregated what thousands of users had saved on a topic, so a well-saved page kept resurfacing long after publication, and a reader researching a subject could browse the collected judgment of everyone who had researched it before. For fashion websites — boutiques, trend coverage, shopping directories — being bookmarked was a form of distribution earned one reader at a time, and services built around the practice became meaningful traffic sources.
The mechanics shaped the content. Bookmarked pages were found by description and tags, so a clear title and an accurate summary mattered; fashion tags — the labels users attached to saved pages — became an informal folksonomy of the field, grouping pages by the words readers actually used rather than the categories publishers preferred. Tiny URL services supported the same ecosystem by making long fashion links shareable, and viral marketing described what happened when a saved page spread faster than its publisher expected.
Social media absorbed most of this behavior: saving became the save button, sharing became the repost, and public bookmark collections became boards and lists inside the big platforms. The term remains in the directory because the vocabulary of that era — bookmarking services, tags, feeds — is the direct ancestry of how fashion content is organized and found now, and because Apparel Search documented its own presence across those services as they operated.
Social bookmarking is a method for internet users to organize, store and share web pages. A user saves a page of interest the way a browser saves a favorite, but on a social bookmarking service the saved links can be viewed and interacted with by other people — that shared visibility is what makes it social.
A browser bookmark is private: the address sits in your own folder and only you can view it. Social bookmarking moves the collection to a service where bookmarks are usually public, can instead be saved privately or shared with a specific group, and can be organized, searched and discovered by others.
Fashion is a visual, link-driven field: readers saved and shared boutique pages, trend articles and shopping resources, and sites gained discovery and traffic when their pages were bookmarked and surfaced by services such as Delicious, Diigo, StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit.