Social Bookmarking With del.icio.us

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Social Bookmarking With del.icio.us

• Rob Barth
• Web 2.0 In The Know

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Delicious allows you to

• Discover
• Remember
• Save
• Organize
• Share
• From ANY computer

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Introductions Logistics

• Welcome
• Restrooms
• Breaks
• Emergency Exits

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Social Bookmarking InPlain English
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Delicious Agenda

• Create a Delicious Account
• Install buttons on your IE browser
• Bookmark a website
• Add Tags and Notes
• Create a network with your classmates
• Subscriptions
• Find any media type, i.e. audio, video, image or
  document

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Create Delicious Account

• Need a unique user name with at least six
  characters
• Password with at least one letter and one symbol
• Full Name
• Email Address

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Install Delicious Buttons

• The New Join Tool Allows You To Add the
  Delicious Buttons As Part of the Create Account
  Process
• You May Also Import Your Favorite Bookmarks
  Already Identified In Your Browser

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Bookmarks

• A URL is simply the address of the web page you
  are bookmarking
• Use your browser add-on toolbar button to tag
  your web page
• Example Bookmark http//web20intheknow.com

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Tags

• Your bookmarks can either be private or public at
  this time
• Tags are one word descriptors that you can assign
  to your bookmarks to help you organize and
  remember them
• Think of them as KEYWORDS

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Tags Continued

• Can rename
• Do not form a hierarchy
• Flexible
• Choose yourself
• No spaces allowed, i.e. Kansas City
• Bundle tags, i.e. fish, dogs, and cats into pets

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Tags Continued (2)

• for tags allow you to send a bookmark to
  someone who may or may not be in your network
• Quicker than email
• Receiver is alerted in their Inbox
• Example forrwb59b

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Special Tags

• You may search bookmarks by media type audio,
  video, image, and documents
• Audio as systemmediaaudio or systemfiletypemp3
  or wav
• Video as systemmediavideo or systemfiletypempg
  or mpeg or wmv or mov

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Special Tags (2)

• Image bookmarks as systemmediaimage or
  systemfiletypejpg or jpeg or gif or png
• Document bookmarks as systemmediadocument or
  systemfiletypedoc or pdf

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Networks

• Your NETWORK connects you to the other delicious
  users such as coworkers, friends, family,
  educators, etc.
• Share your bookmarks and collect from your
  favorite users latest bookmarks

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Networks Continued

• To ADD people to your network, select Add a user
  from the top right of your network page and type
  their username
• Orvisit their bookmark page and select add user
  to my network
• Example, rwb59b (Robs username)

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Subscriptions

• Subscriptions allow you to watch all your
  favorite tags in one place
• Tag aggregator
• Visit your Subscriptions page and click Add a
  subscription
• Can narrow your subscriptions to specific users

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Delicious For Education

• Educators and librarians are embracing Delicious
  to help students learn
• Visit the Delicious Blog for articles relating to
  social bookmarking and education
• http//blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/03/who-says-li
  brarians-and-teachers-dont-like-tags.html

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Wrap-Up

• Contact Information For Rob Barth
• Website, http//web20intheknow.com
• Email, rob_at_web20intheknow.com
• Cellular Phone, 573-718-9974
• Thank you to Shannon and the Poplar Bluff Public
  Library!