“How To: Create an Online Multimedia Clip Book with Agglom”

You just had a rocking quarter, and now it’s time to create those quarterly reports. But how do you show your client or the board all the work you’ve done? You can’t necessarily put a Twitter account, a WetPaint Wiki, a Slideshare preso with almost a million views, 45 blog posts, a YouTube video and a community forum all in a paper clip book. And delicious is just soooo, um, boring. Today we’ll show you how you can use social bookmarking site Agglom to create and share online “slide shows” of links and web pages.

Last August, we started playing with Agglom after seeing Marshall Kirkpatrick‘s review and demo over at ReadWriteWeb. Since we love to research but don’t always have time to read everything at in one sitting, we instantly fell in love with it. Also, its visual browsing makes it more inviting than delicious’ text-based lists.

How it compares to delicious:

Both allow tagging, but Agglom let’s you put them into sets (Click image to enlarge)

Agglom one-ups delicious by letting you put your pages in sets

View your sets as lists of thumbnails or as a slide show (Click to Enlarge)

View your saved pages as lists of thumbnails

Or you can view your links in a slideshow-like browser

Agglom also lets you play multimedia items like videos, podcasts and slideshares directly from the set list, so you don’t have to leave the site to check if that’s the video you want

You can play videos directly from the set list

Like delicious, there is a community. Agglom, however, lets you form groups, kinda like FriendFeed. Group members can post sets to the group

Besides creating a clip book, you can also use Agglom to:

Create presentations for new biz pitches of top hits
Create a directory of employee blogs, Flickr pages, etc
Create an industry top sites slideshow (like Todd Defren’s delicious strategy)
Reach out to existing groups and communities who are actively sharing information on the site

Here’s our 3 minute demo on how to bookmark a URL and create a slide show using Agglom. You can see that slide show here:

Check out my Agglom pages, here, including How to Make a Wind Turbine, Getting Started with Facebook Connect, and Top Must Have WordPress Plugins.

Have you used Agglom? How do you tink it stacks up to delicious? Let us know in the comments!