Sharing Links is both an bookmark manager, and a community of teachers, parents and Surfnetkids.com readers. Once you have transferred your bookmarks to Sharing Links, you can access them from any computer anywhere.

Membership is completely free, you simply need to register.

There are three ways to add a bookmark (or favorite) to your Sharing Links account:

1. Type it in manually
2. Use the Sharing Links bookmarklet while you are visiting the page you want to save
3. Import your existing bookmarks.

To manually type in a bookmark, simply login, and click on Add Bookmark. The address (or URL) and title are the only required fields, but you may find adding a short description will help you remember what the site all about.

Whether or you not you choose to write a description, however, I urge you to use tags, and to use at least three of them. Tags are keywords that describe your link, and if you are accustomed to storing your bookmarks in folders, think of them as folder names. The difference between tags and folders is that a bookmark can have multiple tags. The benefits of tagging will become clearer as you use SharingLinks, but they include being able to discover other’s favorite sites and the use of the tag cloud, which highlights your most popular tags.

An easy way to re-use your existing tags, is to just click on them in the Popular Tags section. If you want to categorize your sites by grade level, it is helpful to pick a tagging grade system, and stick with it. The list of grading tags that I use can be found on the HELP page.

The last field is Privacy, where you get to mark your bookmark as Public, Private, or Share with Contacts.

Public bookmarks are visible by everyone. Private bookmarks are only seen by you. And Share with Contacts will be explained in another video (or you can look it up on the HELP page.)

When deciding whether to make a bookmark public or private, please keep in mind that SharingLinks is a community that is based on sharing, so please share as many of your own bookmarks (by marking them public) as appropriate.

There are three ways to add a bookmark (or favorite) to your Sharing Links account:

1. Type it in manually
2. Use the Sharing Links bookmarklet while you are visiting the page you want to save
3. Import your existing bookmarks

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 Share 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.

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.