Delicious

=Social Bookmarking with DELICIOUS=

[|What is Delicious?]

What can you do in [|Del.icio.us ?]
 * 1) Save your favorite bookmarks
 * 2) Share your bookmarks publicly or privately
 * 3) Import bookmarks from your browser
 * 4) [|Tag] bookmarks for easy categorizing
 * 5) Share unique tags for special purposes
 * 6) Create a network
 * 7) Send you links to others in your network
 * 8) Be sent links from others in your network
 * 9) Search links of others using Del.icio.us - this is powerful to check out the links that your colleagues are using.
 * 10) See how people are internetworked at http://www.twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/
 * 11) Add your top ten most recent Delicious updates to your webpage
 * 12) Create aggregate pages to add the most recent updates from multiple users or by multiple tags
 * 13) Add your tag roll to your website
 * 14) See more on[| all things Delicious]
 * 15) Rename, Remove, Bundle Tags.

Creating a Del.icio.us account
If you go to Del.icio.us, you can sign up for an account. Choose your username well, especially if you will be telling students your account. It might be helpful to make your username similar to your district login or a login that you use for other student related activities.

Setting up your browsers
Del.icio.us makes saving and sharing your bookmarks quite easy; however, it takes a little bit to customize your browser. Once your browser is customized, you can tag any site that you can open. See how to customize your browser by installing buttons, [|click here] 1. Saving your favorite bookmarks
 * Browse to your favorite sites
 * Click the Tag or Post to Del.icio.us buttons
 * Complete the site information form.
 * With your website now tagged, others can access it from your account by typing in the tag name following your account name, or they can search all of del.icio.us to see what other sites are also tagged with the same tag.

I am a huge fan of Deli.icio.us. This site is amazing. Here is my account: http://del.icio.us/amboe_k

One of the most annoying things for anyone providing a links page is that the links die. A way to keep track that your bookmarks don't suffer linkrot is to check them. Here is a free tool. http://freshdelicious.googlepages.com/

Mentoring with Del.icio.us - October 23, 2007

Advanced Del.icio.us Find out how you can customize your webpage to display either your bookmarks or others relating to a specific tag.