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An introduction to the social bookmarking service del.icio.us.
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Making Your Bookmarks Making Your Bookmarks Yummy with del.icio.usYummy with del.icio.us
BCR Free Friday Forum, 5 January 2006Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer
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What is del.icio.us?What is del.icio.us?
Social SoftwareStore your bookmarks onlineTag your bookmarksShare your bookmarks with othersSubscribe to bookmarks with RSS
Creating an accountCreating an account
Adding new bookmarksAdding new bookmarks
TaggingTagging
Adding “a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.” (Wikipedia)
An example of taggingAn example of tagging
The importance of taggingThe importance of tagging
“folksonomy”Ask yourself: What words might my
patrons use to find this item?del.icio.us will provide suggested tagsTags are searchable!
your bookmarksyour bookmarks
A tag in your bookmarksA tag in your bookmarks
Importing your bookmarksImporting your bookmarks
settings|import/upload
Editing a bookmarkEditing a bookmark
Tag BundlesTag Bundles
Logical groupings of related tags you’ve used.
Create them viasettings | bundle tags
Bundle tagsBundle tags
Tag Bundles exampleTag Bundles example
Renaming & Deleting tagsRenaming & Deleting tags
settings | rename tags
settings | delete tags
Your networkYour network
Think of it as your del.icio.us friends list.
Add other users to your network to keep track of what they’re bookmarking.
Your networkYour network
for:for:
Add the tag for:username to send a bookmark to another del.icio.us user.
Users in your network will appear as suggested tags when you add a new bookmark.
Links for youLinks for you
SubscriptionsSubscriptions
Like your network but for tags.Can be limited to a tag when used by
a specific user.
SubscriptionsSubscriptions
SearchingSearching
PrivacyPrivacy
It is possible to mark bookmakrs as private, i.e. not seen by others.
You must first turn this option on in settings | private saving.
Firefox Add-onsFirefox Add-ons
del.icio.us classichttps://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532
del.icio.us Bookmarkshttps://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/
del.icio.us classicdel.icio.us classic
Adds buttons to the toolbar to access your del.icio.us account and to add bookmarks.
del.icio.us bookmarksdel.icio.us bookmarks
Replaces Firefox’s bookmarking system with the content of your del.icio.us account.
RSS in del.icio.usRSS in del.icio.us
All accounts and/or tags have associated RSS feeds available. (Find it at the bottom of the page.)
Reading a del.icio.us feedReading a del.icio.us feed
Republishing del.icio.us RSSRepublishing del.icio.us RSS
Send the RSS feed of your bookmarks through a service such as feed2js to display a list of your 10 most recent bookmarks on your Web site.
Republishing your bookmarksRepublishing your bookmarks
Thank you!Thank you!
Any questions?
Michael [email protected]
http://travelinlibrarian.info/
http://del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian/
