Bookmarking Delicious

Slide 1: Web 2.0: Delicious & social bookmarking A brief look at tools & applications

Slide 2: Bookmarks Have generally had Favourites or Bookmarks capability in browsers Disadvantages: • Only your bookmarks, not shared • Stay on one PC • Inaccessible from another PC , remote location etc.

Slide 3: Web 2.0ey approach • Access from any net connection • Share with others – vote etc • E.g: – Del.icio.us – Digg – Reddit – Stumbleupon – FURL (archive whole webpages) – CiteULike (academic focus) – Connotea (academic focus)

Slide 4: Del.icio.us: • Homepage at http://del.icio.us/ • Google delicious & hit “I’m feeling lucky”

Slide 5: Search box Tags info Delicious homepage: Latest items added to delicious N.B. Counter of the number of times has been listed in Delicious

Slide 6: Usual registration procedures…

Slide 7: Install buttons in browser (or links)… Alternatively use ‘post’ (Is a tutorial as step 3)

Slide 8: Search Tagging ‘Show’ options Can see basic functionality on blank page (search, tag options, showing)

Slide 9: Go searching for what interests you. When find it, click on Delicious button to open your account & add link to your collection (tag button to add link if already logged in).

Slide 10: Delicious will open a dialog box. It will automatically save the URL. It will also provide : • default description tag, • notes field & • tags field (often with some suggested tags)

Slide 11: You can then amend, add to these fields : • preferred description tag, • notes • tags (folksonomy) for future searching – this is the important bit! •N.B. Try compressing multiple words into single word tags e.g. SearchEngines EnvironmentPlanningAct1979

Slide 12: The item will then come up in Delicious, along with your notes & tags ! You continue adding more links in this manner. If at another PC, can use ‘post’ rather than installing buttons.

Slide 13: You can also import all your existing favourites by using the ‘settings > bookmarks > import’ function This imports links with tags based on your original folder arrangement. By default all imports are ‘private’ (you have to make them public if you want the world to see them)

Slide 14: Your network Save this On the social side, you can use ‘your network’ to : • build a network of other users you find of interest, • add other usernames as you come across them, & • use the ‘save this’ link to add their links to your collection You can have ‘fans’, & subscribe to tags & add RSS feeds

Slide 15: List Under the tag options : • view your tags as a ‘list’ or a ‘cloud’, • Sort alpha or by frequency • Fine tune by using ‘min 1,2 or 5 tags’, Cloud • Create / show or hide ‘bundles’, & edit tags (e.g. rename) I would also set display at 100

Slide 16: Search by selecting a tag (e.g. Blogsearch), & Delicious will display all the items in your collection that you have tagged with that term. Unlike with folders, items can have multiple & different tags

Slide 17: ACTIVITIES !!!: • Have a look at our site at http://del.icio.us/bremertafe/ which was built to cover all aspects of a library’s operations, & created by all staff setting up a Delicious account, importing favourites, & pooling all relevant ones. • Also have a look at http://del.icio.us/horticulture which was built as an alternative to subject links for Horticulture. • Have a play…Go to Delicious homepage http://del.icio.us qld Username 123qwe Password This will log you in to the Delicious Qld site (a play area I set up). Find a few interesting URLs & copy. Go to the Post function on Delicious & paste it in the URL field, then add description, notes & tags & save. Refresh Delicious Qld page & see what you have done. Try a few more URLs (load the buttons if you are keen). • Like it ? Set up your own account !

Slide 18: Another social bookmarker is FURL which saves entire webpages. Very useful if have sites with dynamic URLs e.g. newspapers - can act as own personal archive or ‘wayback machine’

Slide 19: Another couple of interesting ones for anyone researching are based around referencing, & allow export to BibTeX & Endnote: Connotea & CiteULike

Slide 20: How to use it ? Not being Digital Natives, need to be able to: • get to it fast & • keep using it. So : • Add it as favourite on the PCs you use • Make it your homepage • Email the link to yourself (with username & password prompts) • Remember the URL… …persist Thanks ! Brad Jones bradley.jones@deta.qld.gov.au