PennTags is a social bookmarking tool for locating, organizing, and sharing your favorite online resources. Members of the Penn Community can collect and maintain URLs, links to journal articles, and records in Franklin, our online catalog and VCat, our online video catalog. Once these resources are compiled, you can organize them by assigning tags (free-text keywords) and/or by grouping them into projects, according to your specific preferences. PennTags can also be used collaboratively, because it acts as a repository of the varied interests and academic pursuits of the Penn community, and can help you find topics and users related to your own favorite online resources.
PennTags was developed by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania. We welcome your feedback! Please contact us at penntags@pobox.upenn.edu.

Think of PennTags as an enhanced version of your bookmarks but with the following differences:

• PennTags is available to you from any computer, unlike personal bookmarks on your computer.
• PennTags allows you to add tags to your posts, helping you organize and find posts later.
• PennTags is a social discovery system; you can see what others are posting and what tags they are using.
• You can sort items of interest by tag, project or user, unlike bookmarks which can only be found by folder name.
• You can create an RSS feed for tags in PennTags, so anytime that tag is used, you will be notified in your RSS feed reader.

Have you ever bookmarked a web page and then cant find it again in your mass of bookmarks? The beauty of PennTags is that it allows you to organize your bookmarks/resources exactly the way you want and it lets you share them with others. It's both personal and portable.

When you add tags to a post using PennTags, you gain a lot of flexibility in how you can organize and use your favorites. You decide what word or phrase is meaningful and should be used as a tag. You can search for a specific tag or tags and see the posts that have been described by that tag. You can also find tags and posts related to your favorites. Think of PennTags as a discovery tool!