Delicious is my social bookmarking site of choice. If you don’t have an account-get one here and if you don’t know what social bookmarking is, this video will explain. This is for those who already use delicious and might want to learn more.
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1. You can backup your delicious account by exporting a html file of your bookmarks. The file can be read by most browsers and the links are active. You can use a “find on this page” to search the file. This could be quicker than searching tags in delicious if you are as disorganized as I am with your tags.
Got to Settings>Bookmarks>Export
2. Find people to learn with. At the right hand side of all your bookmarks there is an icon that represents how many other people have bookmarked the same site.
If you click on that number you get to see who else has bookmarked the same site. When you click on these people you can lurk through their bookmarks and decide whether they would be worth adding to your network. Delicious also lets users add a profile link, so follow those and find out more about your potential contact.
If they are bookmarking good sites, it only makes sense to join and collaborate with them. Click Add To Network.
3. Tag Search all of delicious for a tag you use. If you have just bookmarked a site and used a tag. Other clever people will have used that tag and you might be interested in those sites too. Click on tags>explore
This post is tagged 31dbbb (31 days to be a better blogger project) which is an obscure tag, but these types of tags are good to use when you are working on a project with or without others. Quick way to isolate or collect a group of sites.
4. Hide stuff. You don’t have to be so public. Click “do not share” on those websites that you would like to keep private. Birthday wish lists, vacation plans etc. Click to box do not share
5. Stay ahead by subscribing to a particular tag, this means you get the research power of every other delicious user working for you. If you have a particular user you follow, you can specify to subscribe just to their tag saves. I don’t use this often enough, and need to make a mental note to do this more.
6. Go back in time and attend conference that is already over. Search for the conference tag and retrace the online conference story. This is useful to find not only links being talked about at a conference, but also presentations online, people attending, so connect with their delicious account. Tech ed conference tags include NECC08, k12conferenceonline, educon21, educon.
You can also attend a conference virtually in a similar way, by subscribing to an rss feed for the conference tag. To find conference tags, sometimes you have to be a bit of a sleuth, look at the website, search twitter. Keynote speakers will usually have links to their handouts and presentations on their website or blog which will be tagged correctly. Tags for tech conferences are the easiest to find.
7. Delicious To Go On the iphone and ipod touch, there is no copy paste yet, so to post to delicious while browsing can be done. Check out this video from CNET
Get del.icio.us on an iPhone @ Yahoo! Video
8. And the ultimate delicious game. When you click on the number of people who have bookmarked a link. Delicious tells you who first bookmarked the site. Be the first! It’s a game.
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