B2B Social Bookmarking - Ma.gnolia

Original Post  - April 10, 2008

Similar to Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia allows you to save and share bookmarks with friends and colleagues. However, Ma.gnolia takes the social aspect to a new level and has a very easy-to-use intuitive design.

Ma.gnolia is truly a social place to trade bookmarks. You can find, join and start groups with similar interests, which share people, tags, and links. Tagging is an integral part to any social bookmarking site and ma.gnolia integrates tags throughout their website, presented in tag clouds so you can easily see what the group feels is important. Almost every page has a featured linker to provide you with both a new person to link up to and new content to look at. Ma.gnolia makes it very easy to find new people and to see what the community finds interesting.

Ma.gnolia’s design is both beautiful and easy-to-use, making it fun to browse around looking for interesting sites or people. Your profile homepage shows recent bookmarks from you, your contacts, and your groups all in one place. Exploration is encouraged with lists of recent bookmarks, hot links and hot groups. Links can easily be imported from del.icio.us and login is a breeze - using your choice of openid, yahoo, facebook, clickpass, wordpress, livejournal, aol or typepad.

Adding bookmarks is easy with several ‘bookmarklets’ which are links you can add to your browser. One of these, Roots, also lets you see what the Ma.gnolia community thinks about the page before you add it - tying you to the community even when you are browsing around the web. Sharing your bookmarks on your website or blog is also easy, with a wide variety of officially supported Add-ons and a large community creating their own in the wiki.

Adding a social bookmarking service to your website or blog is a great way to easily add content and connect with your readers. Ma.gnolia also offers a way to increase traffic to your website due to the large community and social functionality. If you’re looking for a robust social bookmarking service for your blog or website, take a close look at Ma.gnolia.

 UPDATE: You can take a look at my ma.gnolia profile to get a feel for how it works.