Social Bookmarking
using
Delicious.com

There is only one way
Join the BGI to manage the manage
Bookmarking Network the rapid increase in
information.
Find others to help you!
Join the BGI
Bookmarking
Network!

Video: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

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Bookmarking
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We are using
delicious.com
This enables us to
together do
Collaborative
Discovery

What are Tags?
Tags are words that mean something
Sometimes called labels, categories,
or keywords
Things that are tagged can have many
tags
i.e. not like folders, where only one
copy resides

Folksonomy
Tags are personal; a “folksonomy” not
“taxonomy”
A folksonomy is the practice of
organizing information using
spontaneous, collaboratively
generated, open-ended labels to
annotate or categorize content

Tagging Best Practices
Tag ideas, concepts and events
Use nouns if possible
The best tags are narrow and specific
apple is too broad, mac better,
mac osx best
Give preference to singular base
Limit abbreviations
Consider modifying bookmark title:
article title « source
Take full advantage of notes:
[comment] “quote from webpage”

Multi-Word Tags
In most cases tag separately if each
word use in a future topic search
significant: lamp shade
not significant: san francisco
You never are going to search for “san”
Multi-word tags are typically
compacted
sanfrancisco, christopherallen
Proper words often camel-cased
SanFrancisco, ChristopherAllen

Tagging Best Practices
Be consistent
Think of what words others may use
Periodically review and update your
tags
When you successfully find a
bookmark from the past, add a new
tag

BGI Conventions
Use ‘bgiedu’ for web pages about BGI, but
not other webpages
Use ‘bgimgt’ for any course related
webpages
Label for specific course, e.g.
‘bgimgt564”, ‘bgimgt566sx’, etc.
Use ‘mywriting’, ‘myprofile’ for your own
work
Add http://delicious.com/bgiedu to your
Delicious network
Send your Delicious account name to
socialweb@bgi.edu to get added to BGI’s
bookmark network.

Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu
BGI Network

Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu/bundle:Students
BGI Students

Wordle of BGIedu http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu/bundle:Students
Student’s DeliciousTags

Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu/bundle:Staff-
Faculty-TAs
BGI Staff/Faculty/TAs

Bookmarks by http://delicious.com/network/bgiedu/bundle:Alumni
BGI Alumni

Bookmarks by a BGI http://delicious.com/christophera
Teacher

Bookmarks by a BGI http://delicious.com/christophera/bgimgt566sx
Teacher for a Class

Bookmarks by a BGI http://delicious.com/christophera/bgimgt566sx
Teacher for Class Week 1 +week1

Bookmark
Social Bookmarking Don’t just read —
bookmark and tag the
your favorite web pages
and the most useful posts.
Add bookmarks of use to
you and fellow students

Act
Share your favorite posts
Social Bookmarking with others, and point
them to your social
bookmarks!
Add your fellow students
to your delicious.com
network
Browse their bookmarks
and add them to your
social bookmarks

Are you ready?
Social Bookmarking
If you are then:
Visit
Engage
Share

Engage
Social Bookmarking Share your favorite posts
with others, and point
them to your social
bookmarks!
Join the
conversation!

Share
Social Bookmarking Cajole your colleagues
into participating.
The more people you
have sharing the
responsibility to read and
engage, the more
effective your network
will be.

Share
Social Bookmarking Get them involved by
sharing with them what
you like.

Share
Social Bookmarking ... and what you don’t like.

Share
Social Bookmarking Share your experience in
learning to use the Social
Bookmarking.
Help others over the
hurdles you’ve already
learned how to handle.

Share
Social Bookmarking Share your Passion!

Explore
Social Bookmarking Together you can explore
the world better.
You don’t have to read it
all, only your share.
The rest will be read by
others, and the best will
be shared back to you.

Together
Social Bookmarking ...we can change the
world!

Questions?
Feedback?
ChristopherA@LifeWithAlacrity.com