Wondering about this little button at the bottom of many iVillage pages?

It's a shortcut to social bookmarking on the Web.

"Social bookmarking" allows you to save and share links to your favorite stories, tools, blogs and communities on iVillage, like creating a "Favorites" menu that you can access from anywhere, and that you can allow friends to see.

There are lots of social bookmarking services, and each one is a bit different. But they all work in basically the same way: You set up a profile online, and save your favorite links to that profile. Who can see your favorite links varies from service to service. Check out our guide to determine which services are best for you.

Sharing Your Favorites
Social bookmarking services that allow you to share your favorites with others:

Reddit
Stumbleupon
Digg
Newsvine
Slashdot
DropJack
Fark
Shadows
BlueDot

These Websites feature constantly-updated headlines submitted by readers like you--they're a fun way to see what other people online are buzzing about.

Once you set up a profile with any of these services, clicking the AddThis social bookmarking button will help you quickly submit a link you like, or cast your vote for that link if it's already been submitted by someone else.

Sharing Some of Your Favorites...
and Keeping Others to Yourself
Social bookmarking services that allow you to save your favorite links and share as many (or as few) as you like:

Simpy
Magnolia
Wink
Furl
Ask
Backflip
Blinklist
Netvouz
RawSugar

Set up a profile with any of these services, and you can then add a link to your profile quickly by clicking the AddThis Social Bookmarking Button. You decide whether you want to share what you've found with your friends or the rest of the online world.

Saving Your Favorites (Just for You)
Clicking the AddThis button lets you quickly save a private link to your favorites folder in your Internet browser, or any online bookmarking or social networking profile you may have set up:

Del.ici.ous
Facebook
Technorati
Yahoo Bookmarks
Google Bookmarks
Netscape Favorites
Internet Explorer Favorites
Windows Live Favorites
LinkaGoGo

What's great about saving your favorites to an online profile, as opposed to just bookmarking a link, is that you can then access your favorite links from any computer and from any browser (from your home computer and your work computer, for instance).

Social bookmarking is about making your favorite stuff online easier to find, from anywhere you go.