del.icio.usSocial Bookmarking

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Kristin Hokanson http://khokanson.blogspot.com

Jim Gates http://tipline.blogspot.com

What is del.icio.us?

• A collection of favorites • Access your favorite links from anywher.• Share with friends, coworkers and the

del.icio.us community.• Discover new things. Everything on is

someone's favorite, so del.icio.us is full of the best

Browser Buttons

FIREFOXhttp://del.icio.us/help/buttons?ua=ff

INTERNET EXPLORERhttp://del.icio.us/help/buttons?ua=ie

Using tags

• Recommended tags are a combination of tags you have already used and tags that other people have used.

• Popular tags are what other people have tagged this page as

Searching del.icio.us

• Using the search boxShows your bookmarks and others

• Each tag has its own page ie http://del.icio.us/tag/mathshows related tags as well

• Search most popular siteshttp://del.icio.us/popular/math

Your Network

• You can add users to your network to see what they have bookmarked.

• You can subscribe to a user with RSS feed

Subscriptions

• Subscriptions allow you to watch all your favorite tags in one place.

• Click on subscriptions- Edit

• Fill in the tag / user to which you want to subscribe.

Links for you

• A user in your network can share bookmarks using for: username.

• Links for you are private until you save to your bookmarks.

• When you tag a site, you can tag is for:username to add to another user’s links.

Sharing Bookmarks

• By topic• By user http://del.icio.us/username• Subscribe via RSS feed• Creating a network• for:username• linkroll

Editing / Deleting Bookmarks

• From your user site you can edit the tags & notes of any site

Settings

Public / PrivateBookmarks

• To change a public bookmark to private, first enable private saving in your settings.

• Check the do not share box• While saving a new bookmark, you can also

check the do not share box to make that bookmark private.

Organizing your bookmarks

• Bundles are a way to arrange previously-used tags into groups.

• From settings: click on bundle tags

• You can also rename tags

Importing Bookmarks• Sign in to del.icio.us and click on the settings tab.

• First export your bookmarks from your browser.

• You can choose whether or not to add popular tags

• Bookmarks you import remain private until you share them.

You can also export your del.icio.us links as a back up.