Social Bookmarking using del.icio.us

Created by Cyprien P. Lomas (The University of Queensland) on January 19, 2005

Are you curious about 'social software'
but unsure about how to benefit from a 'social'application? One
of the best ways to learn about social software is the hands on
approach. Get your hands dirty and play with delicious!

Del.icio.us is an online bookmark manager that bills itself as a social bookmarking tool. Del.icio.us combines the best of referrals, public bookmarks, shared information and descriptive tags.

There
are a lot of reasons to like delicious, but one of the most compelling
is that it allows free form tagging of bookmarks. Any descriptive
word (or words) can be associated with a bookmark entry. This
allows for great flexibility in classifying resources (in this case websites), but requires some discipline on the part of the user.

Ruben Puentedura recently presented a wonderful session on how to get the most out of effective tagging in delicious for the Horizon Project Virtual Community of Practice. He has posted his slides and
an audio transcript. If you want to quickly get up to speed with
delicious and get a feel for social software, set aside 20 minutes and
review the presentation. If you have a little more time, load the
audio onto your iPod :-).

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		Social Bookmarking using del.icio.us Created by Cyprien P. Lomas (The University of Queensland) on January 19, 2005 Are you curious about 'social software' but unsure about how to benefit from a 'social'application? One of the best ways to learn about social software is the hands on approach. Get your hands dirty and play with delicious! Del.icio.us is an online bookmark manager that bills itself as a social bookmarking tool. Del.icio.us combines the best of referrals, public bookmarks, shared information and descriptive tags. There are a lot of reasons to like delicious, but one of the most compelling is that it allows free form tagging of bookmarks. Any descriptive word (or words) can be associated with a bookmark entry. This allows for great flexibility in classifying resources (in this case websites), but requires some discipline on the part of the user. Ruben Puentedura recently presented a wonderful session on how to get the most out of effective tagging in delicious for the Horizon Project Virtual Community of Practice. He has posted his slides and an audio transcript. If you want to quickly get up to speed with delicious and get a feel for social software, set aside 20 minutes and review the presentation. If you have a little more time, load the audio onto your iPod :-). Cyprien's blog Login or register to post comments 6490 reads
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