Pearltrees is the first and largest social curation community on the Internet.  It’s your place to organize, discover and share all the cool content you find online.  However, beyond this definition, a question remains: why would I want to use Pearltrees?

Part of the difficulty in answering this question is to do so without simply listing highly specific uses for a certain kind of user.  For instance:
· Pearltrees for community managers,
· Pearltrees for developers
· Pearltrees for journalists
· Pearltrees for astronauts …(you get the idea)

So here are 6 general ways to use Pearltrees:

1. To give meaning as well as context to what you find on the Web. Every time you browse the web you find  amazing content. Pearltrees lets you select, organize and manipulate this content in ways that are meaningful to you. Pearltrees allows you to create your own personal library of web content that you wish to organize and preserve. It makes it easy for you to classify what you want, whether that content is your funny videos, research for your job or simply topics you find interesting.

2. To archive your favorite online discoveries. How frequently have you wasted time searching for something you’ve found before on the web? With Pearltrees, you don’t have to lose anything ever again! Since you organize your account the way you would organize your own personal library, nothing gets lost and it’s always at hand when you want it.

3. To re-use what you’ve done. Everyone does research on the web. Maybe you’ve looked for a great restaurant or a rental car agency in an unfamiliar city.  But then years pass and you need to recover the same information once again.  But where did you put that research?  Instead of doing all the work over again, you can easily retrieve your results from the pearltree you created the first time you did the work.  Pearltrees allows you to create your own personal “memory of the Web”.

4. To find rare content in your areas of ​​interest. No matter what your interest, it’s certain that there are others that also enjoy that topic. The advantage of a community of curators is that everyone  can benefit from the curation of others.  The collective efforts of a community of like-minded people can vastly accelerate your own personal discovery of the hidden treasures of the Web!

5. To “Team Up” and curate collaboratively! The other positive aspect of a curation community is the ability to act together to curate topics of common interest. Organizing content with a group of people who share the same passion is an experience unique to Pearltrees.  Every time you return to a team pearltree it’s likely you’ll be delighted by the incredible new content that someone else has added.  The trick here is to choose the right people to join your team.  With whom will you edit your pearltrees?

6. To share the web pages you’ve curated with a single click.  A friend asks you for  information on a topic you are passionate about (for example the types of aliens that have appeared on every episode of the Star Wars saga) Rather than digging up all the links, articles, photos, interviews, etc, that you have bookmarked in an effort to inform your friend you can share your entire curated collection on the subject with a single click.  Pearltrees is truly your web archive.

Filed under: Community by ostarr on April 19th, 2011