Taking Them With You Portable Bookmarks: What’s the Difference? Molly Graham Mary Ann Jones

Organizing Information: Online Bookmarks Your bookmarks or favorites are your personal Internet library. Personal Productivity – store links to Web sites that have information that helps you do your job. Course Management – Store links to websites that helps students access information that they will need for your class

Why store my favorites online? Your bookmarks are available on any computer with access to the Internet, protected by a password. So you can access them from everywhere, not only from home, but also from work, when you are visiting friends, when you are traveling etc. You can access your bookmarks with any browser on any type of computer. So you are not tied into one particular browser. No more conversions of one bookmark file into another or trying to keep bookmark files between browsers in sync.

Why store my favorites online? As your bookmarks are online you can make the bookmarks available to family, friends, co- students etc. You are not limited by the features provided by the browser, but have a lot of online bookmark managers to choose from.

What are typical Online Favorites manager features? Store your bookmarks. Organize bookmarks into folders. Annotate your bookmarks. Provide different ways to present your bookmarks like: a directory, folder based organization, etc. Provides an 'add bookmark' feature to quickly add a new website.

What are typical Online Favorites manager features? Allows you to search them. Import the bookmarks from your browser. Export the bookmarks to your browser. Make it possible to share bookmarks on the Internet. your bookmarks. Manage your bookmarks, like edit, delete, move to other folders, etc.

Online Bookmark Programs BackFlip Bookmark Tracker Yahoo Bookmarks MyBookmarks Linkagogo iKeepBookmarks.com

Lists of Many Online Bookmarking Sites You can find more online bookmarking sites:

Keeps track of everywhere you surf Checks out the most popular links of the day Finds pages again with your own search engine “My Daily Routine” visits the sites you use every day Recommends public folders it thinks you will like

No banner ads, popup ads or spam messages Automatic folders- My New Bookmarks, My Top Rated Bookmarks, Recently Visited, Most Visited Public and private RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds available

Easy to use bookmark storage facility, with multiple folders and other options An integrated part of the MyYahoo! family of free services Google bookmarks is much the same

You can export your online bookmarks back to your browser Add instant content to your homepage by optionally making your online bookmarks public Best bookmark of the month and top public bookmarks

Combines bookmarks, graphics and web pages into your own custom homepage Associates pictures to your bookmarks, like a website or company logo Verifies whether your bookmarks are still valid and instantly removes and/or moves the invalid bookmarks Sets daily, weekly or monthly reminders on your bookmarks so you can check back at them on a regular basis

Stores your favorite bookmarks into multiple folders or individual bookmark lists for different family members Allows you to choose whether to make your bookmarks public or keep them private An interesting "tour" option allows people viewing your bookmark list to visit each site on the list in turn, giving them an idea of your interests

Password Protected Can share with others One click site upload Search bookmarks Import Bookmarks Export Bookmarks backflipYesMay to others Yes Tedious – requires one at a time – htm file Yes Bookmark Tracker Yes Yes – under Bookmark Library Yes Yahoo Bookmarks YesCan send to others Yes – through toolbar Your ownYesTo Browser My Bookmarks YesCan make yours public Yes – after downloading Remark Yes – public accounts - unreliable Yes – after downloading Remark Yes linkaGoGoYesCan save folders as an html link YesYour ownHtm or from favorites To webpage ikeep bookmarks Yes To Web page