Social Networking
Bookmarks & Sharing
The Carlisle City Council website includes links to social bookmarking websites. The links can be found at the bottom of most pages.
These sites are free to use and allow you to store, tag and share links across the internet. Once you have registered with them, you can share these links with friends and people with similar interests and even access them from other computers.
If there is a page that you'd like to save or share, just select one of these links to add to it your list or share with your friends.
For more information about each of these services and to find out which one would suit your needs please see below:
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Follow us on Facebook or visit our profile http://www.facebook.com/CarlisleCityCouncil
Del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/
Delicious is a free service designed with care to be the best place to save what you love on the web. It's easy to build up a collection of links, essentially creating your own personal search engine. It's quick to organize your links so that when you’re looking for something, you can find it within seconds.
StumbleUpon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click the Stumble! link, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 8 million+ other web surfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.
Digg
http://digg.com/
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.
Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/
Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.
You can follow Carlisle City Council by visiting http://twitter.com/CarlisleCC and using the "follow" button.