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DELICIOUSSOCIAL BOOKMARKING
How to Use del.icio.us to Save, Share and Distribute
Links
What is Social Bookmarking?
• Web-based saving, organizing and sharing of favorite links.
• Links are accessible to the public through a specific network or website service.
• Other users can search and view links by topic, category or randomly.
Today’s Most Popular Social Bookmarking Website:www.delicious.com
• Started in 2003 as a hobby and informal way to share web pages with friends.
• Purchased by Yahoo! in 2005 as service began to expand and grow in popularity.
del.icio.us
del.icio.us???• Is a free social bookmarking website
service that allows users to save or tag, manage, access and share bookmarks of web pages from any computer all in one site.
• Bookmarks are stored on the web instead of inside your browser on “Favorites” so that you can access them and tag new ones from any computer.
• Can be as private or public as you wish and used by anyone who uses the Internet.
You can use del.icio.us to:
• Keep links to your favorite sites, articles, blogs and music.
• Share favorites with friends, family, collegues, students and the del.icio.us community.
• Discover new things. See the interesting links that others have found.
Examples of how to use del.icio.us:
• Research – keep track of sites• Collaboration – share sites with
students and staff • Wishlist – build your own and share it• Vacation – plan a trip• Cookbooks – see what others are
cooking and organize your recipes in one place
What are tags?
• Keywords that you use to describe a bookmark.
• Can be renamed or deleted at any time.
• Can use as many as you like.
• Can be categorized for easy reference.
• Listed alphabetically.
Tags
HOW DO I CREATE A DEL.ICIO.US ACCOUNT?
• All school computers currently have the del.icio.us icon on the Explorer Browser.
• Click on the del.icio.us icon on the toolbar.
Note: If using del.icio.us for the firsttime on a school computer, accessit through the Internet Explorer from the “Start” menu. After that,it can be accessed from the desktop.•At home, just Google “delicious.”
Creating an Account
Go to “get started”
Select a username and password.
You must enter your email; you will be sent an email to activate your account.
Your username will be used to identify your del.icio.us site.
e.g. My del.icio.us site is:del.icio.us/jatacadia
Select bookmarklet buttonsfor any browser
Adding del.icio.us Icons on Toolbar
For help adding buttons on your own, there’s a video tutorial at the
instructions for manually installing the buttons.
How to Tag or Bookmark Sites
While on the Internet site you
want to save, click the “tag”
icon on thetoolbar.
• On school computers, you will be asked to enter your:
Username andPassword
• At home, when you click “tag,” this step should be eliminated.
This will bring up your del.icio.us account.
The web page title is automatically added to the description.
Click on any popular tags to add them to your tags for the item or type in your own name on “tags.”
Adding Notes
Highlight text on the page before clicking Tag and the text will be automatically included in the Notes.
Basic Tagging Tips
• If you want to combine words in one tag, mash or use punctuation to separate:• InformationLiteracy• information_literacy
• Tags are not case-sensitive.• Be consistent.• Careful with your spelling!
To View Your del.icio.us Site
• Click on the del.icio.us icon on the toolbar:
or• Type in your del.icio.us site
address: e.g. del.icio.us/jatacadia.ca
Viewing Your TagsClick on a tag from the list on the right or the tags under an item to view all of your favorites with that tag.
Searching Your Tags
A search will show results from your favorites first (if any) and then from other del.icio.us links.
Narrowing Searches
To narrow your results,
Combine more than one search term with “+”
Locating Popular and Recent Tags
Add an Account to your Network
1. Go to your network
2. Type the account name and click add
3. Your network defaults to public; go to network privacy if you want to change.
Use the network toshare links. Individuals must
share account names to networkin this way.
Making Changes
• To account, bookmarks, tags and network.
• Tags can be renamed, deleted or bundled.
Subcriptions
• Subsciptions let you view new links added to a particular tag.
1. Go to subscriptions
2. Click on edit
3. Add a tag
4. Add a user (optional) to only see that tag from that user.
5. Click subscribe.
More Information About a Tag
Click onsaved by [n] other people to see the del.icio.us history for the item.
Searching for Similar Websites?
Try similicio.us
Search Strategies.
Social Bookmarking
Looking for information:
• Where do YOU look for information?
• What are YOUR tricks to find exactly what you need?
Severalsearchingtricks:“” Finds exact quoted
phrase
-term Finds information without the term
define: Looks for definitions
* •* Means any word. •You can look for “blogs can be used for *” when you need ideas for using blogs
Google advanced search:
• Language and region: when you want only authentic websites (region selection is available only at www.google.RU)
• Domen: choose edu when you need more reliable information
• Date: sometimes you might need most recent entries
• Format: ppt stands for Power Point Presentations
Bookmarks:
• How do YOU save the websites you find useful?
• How do you know what websites your colleagues like and use?
Social bookmarking
• http://delicious.com• www.bobrdobr.ru
www.delicious.com
Tasks:
• Register at http://delicious.com
• save two or three of your favourite websites there (right upper corner: Save a new Bookmark → add description and tags → Save)
Tasks:
• type your username on the slide• find other group members and add
them to your network (People → Go to a User → Add to my Network (right upper corner))
• Explore what your colleagues saved. Are there any websites you find useful?
References
• Del.icio.us, retrieved June 14, 2007 from http://del.icio.us/help
• Social Bookmarking, retrieved June 14, 2007 from http://enwikipedia.org
• Social Bookmarking is del.icio.us , retrieved June 14, 2007
