Recently I have begun tagging websites on the internet. What I mean by this is that I have been using social bookmarking on sites such as Diigo and Delicious to tag articles about basketball and see who else has viewed the same articles. By doing this, I am able to find people who also love to read about hoops online, and may have tagged other websites that I have either not visited in a long time, or I have never seen before. It has been very helpful to me in my ongoing basketball research as well as for my personal enjoyment. While I was searching around the web, I happened on another web surfer who seemed to share many of my interests. My social bookmarking soulmate if you will. User kieranrae08 is someone who seems very interested in basketball.
I first noticed this person because of the way he/she tags her pages. Her bookmarking topics varied from "basketball", to "basketball coaching", to "drills, to "training", to"nba". It would appear that not only is kieranrae08 an avid basketball fan but he/she is also a coach or an aspiring one at least. Many of her websites are devoted to basketball news and information (the kind of sites I look for online), while the other half are all devoted to improving as a basketball coach, with specific drills, tips, and guides for basketball coaches of all levels. He/she is also very organized in the way he/she tags the articles. First any article is tagged with "basketball". Then the sub-categories are listed. If it is a coaching page then it will probably be tagged "basketball coaching" along with "drills", "tips", or "plays". If its a basketball news site it is tagged with "nba" and other specific markers like "espn" or "nba finals coverage".
In terms of his/her bookmarking practices, kieranrae08 has bookmarked around sixteen different pages about basketball on the varying topics I discussed in the above paragraph. He/she was doing a lot of bookmarking in the month of June, but has not done much since. This is sad as the websites he/she was tagging were all very useful for all shapes and sizes of basketball fans. Kieranrae08 isn't necessarily the most thorough book-marker (he/she doesn't highlight and comment on the websites she bookmarks), but he/she makes up for it with her wide variety of tagged sites she has visited. Maybe when he/she comes back from her bookmarking hiatus, he/she will be more thorough when bookmarking websites and will leave his/her own insights on the new and old pages that he/she visits.
There are definitely a few hidden gems that kieranrae08 has discovered. Basketball websites that even I have never stumbled upon. There are two in particular that stand out to me. Sheridan Hoops is a well organized and beautifully laid out, all-purpose basketball blog. With its multitude of topics on everything from free agency, to fantasy hoops, to the European leagues, it seems like a very useful basketball information gathering tool. I was surprised at myself for never having heard of it before (you can find it here). The second site that stood out to me was Breakthrough Basketball. This is an essential resource for people coaching on any level of the sport. As a former coach of youth basketball myself, I know I will use this page if I ever start coaching again. There are thousands of plays, drills, and pieces of advice for coaches (find it here).
Kieranrae08 is an excellent basketball book-marker and an excellent source for all of you, my readers. Whether you are trying to find basketball stats, news, and information, or are looking to brush up on your coaching chops, he/she definitely has exactly what you need. Check him/her out if you don't believe me!
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