Definition

Social Bookmarking sites allow you to organize, store and share all your links to articles and resources.

Examples

Del.icio.us
One of the best tools because it adds a link on your web browser that when clicked quickly adds information when you read a new article. It also has code that quickly creates a tagcloud on a blog.

• Active Learning list has 700+ links organized into 8 major categories and 189 sub categories
• Tagcloud on a blog

Diigo
Diigo has more social networking functions than Del.ic.ious. It has more of a community feel with the possibility to share bookmarks to groups, which have their own discussion forums. There is a medical education group on Diigo.
Portaportal
A more attractive layout for a small numbers of links that you might want to share with students.
Connotea
Advertised as a tool for researchers, clinicians and scientists. It has a toolbar link similar to Del.icio.us.

Google Alerts isn't really a social bookmarker. When people wonder why I have so many active learning articles, its because I recieve regular updates from Google about the latest articles posted using an active learning tag.

Useful for:

Colleagues

• sharing evidence based medical resources

Students

• sharing evidence based medical resources