Thanks, Laura!
I do plan to keep using it. I’d like it to be a collaborative space though so want to figure out how to let all CommBuild community folks contribute somehow. Ideas?

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Amy Sample Ward
https://amysampleward.org

Please excuse spelling and brevity, sent mobile-y.

The new delicious reminds me a lot of Evernote. Not to get too tool crazy on this thread, but is that something you’ve tried? It’s definitely more than a bookmark tool as it does everything – business cards to photos to links to everything in between. But it uses the collection + tags process that the new delicious seems to be moving users towards.

I had not seen pearltrees. Looks interesting.  I will play with it a bit and see how it fits in with my routine.  I just have not seemed to find my magic fit for general bookmarking.  Perhaps with the new interface I will also give delicious another look.

As always thanks for the great tips and info.

Thanks, Ash! When it comes to curating+bookmarks+visual navigation, did you ever try Pearltrees? It is like a delicious (public bookmarking) + mindmapping + social network. You may find it interesting at least! I never got into it because I use Twitter or other social spaces for my organic discovery and use delicious and scoop.it for saving and archiving, etc.

I find I am starting to use it as my bookmark go to.  I am super visual so if I can cruise my bookmarked articles in a visual format I am a happy camper.

I also like the relationship it creates between your topics and those that you follow by being able to suggest things for other topics.  I think this will really help build a sense of community rather then a ton of competing topics.  The down side being that the norm has become that we are all publishers/curators and not so drawn to playing the supporting role.  I think the only way this new tool will truely thrive is if folks can get in the mindset of creating topics where there are none and supporting existing ones with suggestions.  Otherwise, (and it is already kind of heading this way) we will end up with 20 similar topics and again loose the value of curation by having too many options.

Hey Emily – that’s great to hear! I definitely think it can be a great tool for creating a real knowledge hub. Once you get in, would love to hear how it goes!