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Register for a free Sharing Links account.
Transfer Your Existing Bookmarks from your browser.
For one-click bookmarking, install the Sharing Links Toolbar (for Internet Explorer or Firefox). Other browsers can use the Sharing Links Bookmarklets instead.
There are three ways to add bookmarks (or favorites) to your Sharing Links account:
Many of these topics are demonstrated in our video help section at the Sharing Links Blog. Support is also available at ReplyToBarbara.com.
Before you can add a bookmark, you must be logged into your SharingLinks account. To manually add a bookmark, click on the "Add a Bookmark" button in the top menu bar. Fill out the required fields, and be sure to also add tags.
TIP: Tags are keywords or labels that categorize your bookmarks, and are a very important part of the Sharing Links organization system. If you are accustomed to using Folders to organize your bookmarks, think of tags as your folder names. But tags are more flexible, because a bookmark can have several tags.
TIP: To group bookmarks together (as you might have in your old folder-based bookmarking system) re-use your existing tags. When you are adding a bookmark, a list
of your tags is displayed. Simply click on any of those tags to add it to your new bookmark.
For more ideas on working with tags, see About Tags.
To easily add bookmarks while you are surfing the Net, we recommend installing the SharingLinks Toolbar.
However, if you do not use either Internet Explorer for Windows, or any version of Firefox, then you can use the bookmarklets instead of the SharingLinks Toolbar. Whenever you want to bookmark a site you are visiting, you will simply click the SharingLinks link at the top of your browser.
To install the bookmarklets, simply drag (keeping the mouse button depressed) one of the following bookmarklets to the Links (or Bookmarks or Favorites) top of your browser. Unclick at either your Favorites (also known as Bookmarks) or Links section.
When visiting a site you want to bookmark, simply click on the Sharing Links bookmarklet at the top of your browser.
TIP: For recent versions of Internet Explorer, you will need to add "http://www.sharinglinks.com" to your Trusted Sites before you can drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar. After you have added the bookmarklet to
your browser toolbar, remove us from your Trusted Sites. If you forget this last part, using the site will be unbearable, as you will get a warning every time a page loads.
TIP: Make bookmarking easier by being choosing "Don't ask for my password for 2 weeks" when you login. This will prevent you from
having to re-enter your password while bookmarking and surfing.
Your existing bookmarks can be imported from your browser, or from del.icio.us (or any another RSS feed).
Tags are keyword phrases or labels that describe your links. Using them liberally (at least three per link) will aid in your bookmark organization, and help other users discover your bookmarks. At first, you might simply think of them as folders (of you are accustomed to storing links in folders.) But they have many benefits over folders. First, you can use multiple tags per bookmark. Second, your popular tags will be displayed in a Popular Tag cloud whenever you are logged in. Third they provide a fun opportunity to tag surf to other's links.
Tags can be added and edited on each bookmark individually through the Edit link that appears next to each of your bookmarks. Or you can add tags to groups of bookmarks with the Tagging Buddy. Use the Tagging Buddy's search function to find related bookmarks, and then group tag them all at once.
A Sharing Links tag cloud is a weighted list of keywords (tags), visually designed so the more popular tags are displayed in a bigger, heavier font. When you
are on your My Bookmarks page, a tag cloud of your most popular tags is displayed. When you are visiting someone else's bookmarks, a tag cloud of their most popular tags is displayed.
TIP: Click on any tag at any time to see all the bookmarks tagged with that keyword. If you are in Your Bookmark page, you will only display your own bookmarks. To see all bookmarks with a particular tag, use "Search All Bookmarks."
Tag surfing is a way to find new, relevant bookmarks by clicking on interesting tags in Tag Clouds, in the Related Tags box, or those tags displayed below each bookmark. Tag surfing
is one of the benefits of social bookmarking.
TIP: Click on any tag at any time to see all the bookmarks tagged with that keyword. If you are in Your Bookmark page, you will only display your own bookmarks. To see all bookmarks with a particular tag, use "Search All Bookmarks."
Browser search is an incredibly powerful tool that allows you in-browser access to your own bookmarks, and recommendations from the SharingLinks community. Continue here.
Social bookmarking is sharing bookmark links within a community. Sharing Links is a community of parents and teachers interested in educational websites. Enjoy!
If you would like to add grade levels to your bookmarks, feel free to use the following (or make up your own!):
TIP: The easiest way to re-use tags you've already used, is to click on them in the Popluar Tags section while you are adding a bookmark.
Sharing Links is a community for parents, teachers and students. If you come across an inapproriate link, let us know by clicking on "Report This Link." Our moderators will delete or make private any links deemed inappropriate for a family audience.
Most Sharing Links pages have a corresponding RSS feed. Look for the orange RSS icon in the lower right-hand sidebar (or in your Firefox address bar.) These RSS feeds allow you to display your bookmarks on your homepage, import them into My Yahoo!, Google Reader, or your Google Home Page.
Sharing Links Contacts are other Sharing Links users whose bookmarks you want to watch. After you add someone to your Contacts, you can view all their bookmarks, search all their bookmarks, and also view their Contacts.
Each of your bookmarks can be marked Public (shared with everyone), Private (only seen by you) or Shared with Contacts. Contacts are other
SharingLinks users who have decided to watch your bookmarks. Your Contacts are other SharingLinks users who's bookmarks you want to watch. Your contacts
may be your teachers, your friends, or complete strangers :) whose links you find interesting.
TIP: In order to benefit the SharingLinks community, please keep most of your bookmarks public. This way we all can learn from each other. If everyone
kept all their bookmarks private, there would no tag surfing for others to enjoy.
To add a Contact, you must be on the Contact's bookmark page. You can get there either by:
Once you are on their bookmarks page, scroll down, and in the lower right-hand corner you will see "Add To My Contacts"
Once you have added a Contact, you can view their Public and Shared With Contacts bookmarks by clicking on Contacts in the main navigation menu, and then choosing their name from the list on the right-hand side.
To remove a Contact, you must be on the Contact's bookmark page. You can get there by clicking on their username displayed (right-hand column) in Your Contacts box. Once you are on their bookmarks page, scroll down, and in the lower right-hand corner you will see "Remove From My Contacts"
In addition to Private (only seen by you) and Public (seen by everyone) bookmarks, you can designate some bookmarks to be ONLY seen by your Contacts. Bookmarks you have designated "Shared with Contacts" will be displayed with an orange bar on the left-hand side. Keep in mind that anyone can become your Contact (as you have no control over who chooses you.) This is simply another feature to aid in your bookmark organization.
When you hover your mouse over a bookmark, Snap Preview will display a popup image of the site. This feature is experimental, and we look forward to your opinions.
There are more help information on the Sharing Links Blog, where you can read answers to questions that others have already asked. To ask a question or to get support, please visit ReplyToBarbara.com.
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