delicious.com bookmarking

A lot of people around the library already use delicious.com, but some haven’t heard about it yet, and since it got a makeover today, I thought it would be a good time to talk up a great service. Delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us) is a great way to save your bookmarks online so you can get to them from anywhere and organize them with tags (labels) for quick retrieval.  Sharing links with other people who use the service is also incredibly easy.  As useual, there’s a common craft video available that explains social bookmarking in a very easy-to-understand way, so I’ll post the video and then explain about some of the ways that you can use it to connect to the rest of us in the library.

There’s been a bit of a change in the look since that video, but the service still operates in the same way and makes it easy to get to the websites that you save from anywhere.  Delicious also allows you to create a network of friends and share links with them on the fly.  You can see my bookmarks at http://delicious.com/alwright1 and add me to your network.  Judy and Beverly also have delicious accounts that I’m sure they wuld be glad to share with you.

Delicious also creates RSS feeds for every tag allowing them to be used in a number of ways.  For example, the “Useful Links” area in the right sidebar of this blog is updated every time someone tags a delicious post with “ttif” (for this thing I found).  So when I think that something might be useful to everyone, I tag them ttif and they appear here. If you did the same, they would show in the sidebar here, too.  Someone could also choose to grab the RSS feed for that tag and be alerted in their RSS reader everytime someone tagged a new website with ttif.  You can also use a specific person’s tags, so I subscribe to Judy’s “technology” tags with my RSS reader, and now anytime she tags something with the word “technology,” I find out about it.  As always, if you would like me to help you set up a delicious account or would like to know more about it.  Let me know.