Susan Johnston, the freelance writer also known by her nom de blog, The Urban Muse, writes about social bookmarking sites in a guest post on Freelance Writing Jobs, another nifty blog for writers.
Johnston uses Del.icio.us, a popular social bookmarking site, to access her bookmarks from anywhere, to keep track of research for articles she’s working on, to keep track of potential markets and to share interesting tidbits about the magazine business with her circle of freelance writer friends.
I’ve come to rely on Del.icio.us as my electronic filing cabinet, tagging and saving stories I find while doing online research for articles I’m working on. Del.icio.us has lots of other suggestions for how to use the service here.
You can read more about how freelance writers can take advantage of social bookmarking and other Web-based tools in posts I’ve written about them here and here.
With http://www.socialmarking.com you can easily bookmark any site to 130+ social bookmarking services. It also have a google gadget, buttons and blog plugins.
I spent a large chunk of today learning more about social bookmarking so I could add a link to my blog posts. It’s great to learn how it can support my article-writing, too! Thanks for the practical advice.
Karen: If you spent all day on this, you probably figured out that the more you learn, the more you realize what’s out there, and it’s overwhelming. I think the key is to be choosy and pick a couple services/sites to jump into first. I could do a better job of using bookmarking services to promote my blog, it’s just a question of not enough hours in the day to do everything, and write too.
Michelle Rafter