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 Sauersmsauers@bcr.org

http://travelinlibrarian.info/

http://del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian/