social bookmarking soulmate?

Finding a social bookmarking soulmate is harder than it seems. especially when I don't completely understand how social bookmarking works and I find delicious to be really confusing and unorganized.  I don't like the internet sometimes. But here I am.

I think I found someone though (or as close as I could get to someone before I got to frustrated to continue.)


They have about 32312 bookmarks on their delicious accounts and extremely detailed tags. The one tag I was interested in was "government2.0" of  which there were 258 sites bookmarked with that tag.  However, I don't think this is a perfect match because my other interest "civicengagement" had only 1 tag.  There tagging process is extremely specific and organized, there were about 8746 tags categories, which was good helpful to me in finding whether they were interested in a similar topic to me, however there were very few, if any, comments added to the sites that were bookmarked.  One interesting site that my "soulmate" led me to was actually another blog: OpenSF that had a post about how governments use twitter that is perfect for the "readers" of this blog (I put readers in quotes because I have no readers) as it deals with public engagement with governments through the use of twitter which apparently leads to more influence.  which is pretty cool.

My soulmate also directed me to another blog simpl whose goal is this: "Simpl will connect government, business, nonprofits and individuals with ideas and resources to help them identify and solve problems." Awesome. I will definitely be looking more into that blog when I start doing more research on my paper and might also interest anyone who looks at this blog. The goal of simpl is somewhat different than what I am researching because it seems to regard government as a person and hopes to put them on equal footing with the rest of the public...which is something I had not considered before but really makes sense in terms of using the internet as a new, more easily accessibly public forum to communicate with government.  It sets up and also conforms to the idea of the internet as a somewhat utopian place where all participants are equal.  Here's a little tidbit I found pretty interesting in their FAQ section: "Another difference between the challenge approach and the Simpl approach comes in being able to step outside of your comfort zone and propose an idea or make a suggestion even in an area that is outside of your immediate expertise." I'm glad I found it.  Thank you social bookmarking soulmate.

Also, I would recommend checking this out: Citizen Experience.  apparently Gov2.0 is a commonly used term now like web2.0.  The origins are unknown however this site seems to epitomize it.  That is, using the internet (or web2.0...) to interact and hear form the public sector to affect public policy.  It's a North American company, but from the way they spell center (centre) I'm gonna say they're Canadian.  which is fine.

It looks like my soulmate bookmarks pretty frequently (at lest once a week) so I'm looking forward to whatever new sites I'm able to find through them and also go through the hundreds of sites they bookmarked under the government 2.0 tag.