Sqworl is More Tasty than Delicious


Sqworl is More Tasty than Delicious
Dear Sqworl...I Love You!
my new obsession is Sqworl! or for my Tweeps....#Sqworl!
i mean, i seriously have a super geek crush on this site! backstory: ever since Backflip has died (RIP) i've tried to find an easy alternative to bookmarking to use for myself and with my kids.

i've never really warmed up to delicious... and i'm a visual kinda gal....so when i stumbled across this it was love at first click! My first group was called Addictive Tech Crisps for Education: Web 2.0 Tools : Mmmm tasty techie crisps so good you can't just nibble one! I also created one called: Animation Sites & Education Resources : Animation sites & resources for school use. Some for media/classroom/unit marketing and some to use with kids!

each Sqworl group page is a yummy screenshot thumbnail lightbox of the sites AND with a short url! - SO easy for sharing or adding to a wikipage for students...WITH the added benefit that each time you add sites to it...its automatically updated!

when creating a group of blogs or journal pages - select blog mode = on. that way, each time the page is updated you'll get a nice little star in the corner of the page! yes, that's right...it tracks the RSS feed of a page!

Sqworl also keeps trcks of your views and stats...just click and you'll get a link to how many people have tweeted your group or linked to it! SWEET!

with easy to add bookmarklet button for your toolbar you can add pages on a fly in only 2 clicks!


Using the combination of Sqworl's collections and thumbnails, you may soon be scanning for links based on visual clues - much like the icons on your desktop. If saving URLs with a visual reminder sounds helpful to you, take Sqworl for a spin and start squirreling your URLs away.

Talented wunderkind Caleb Brown created this resource and it's amazing! AND he's very responsive giving out his email address at the bottom of the page and when i had a question - he actually answered it himself within a day or so!

You can even edit the page reposition the links easily!


keep up with new updates by checking out the Sqworl blog




To get to a cheat sheet of this posting to share on your blog or to give out to your staff visit my wiki and snag or link back to it!

Comments

  1. Caleb BrownFebruary 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM

    Gwyneth,

    Thanks so much for this post, it was very well done and your cheat sheet is fantastic! As always, if you have any more questions or comments, drop me another line at calebrown@gmail.com

    Caleb Brown
    http://sqworl.com

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  2. @GwynethJones - The Daring LibrarianFebruary 16, 2010 at 9:33 PM

    Awww thanks so much, Caleb! I'm glad you approve oh code-poet! Thank you for being so approachable and communicative with your fans!
    ~Gwyneth

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  3. Katie SmithJune 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM

    ok, this is amazing. I am seriously going to have to learn how to do this

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