Law: Placement Social Bookmark: Delicious How & Why

Accessing your Bookmarks What do you do when you want to find a bookmark, but you’re not at your usual PC? What if you work on different machines (work & home)? Wouldn’t you like to be able to access bookmarks from any location?

What do you do when you want to find a bookmark, but you’re not at your usual PC?

What if you work on different machines (work & home)?

Wouldn’t you like to be able to access bookmarks from any location?

What is Delicious? … is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. … manage and access website bookmarks from multiple locations, multiple machines.

… is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source.

… manage and access website bookmarks from multiple locations, multiple machines.

Favourites & bookmarks ‘ Favourite’ bookmarks available on one PC only. Very difficult to take with you from home-to-work. They are not easily shared. Use Delicious to access anywhere & anytime, and to share.

‘ Favourite’ bookmarks available on one PC only.

Very difficult to take with you from home-to-work.

They are not easily shared.

Use Delicious to access anywhere & anytime, and to share.

How Can I Use Delicious Add websites to Delicious as you would add to ‘favourites’ in Internet Explorer. Access Delicious bookmarks from any location. Use tags to categorise your bookmarks.

Add websites to Delicious as you would add to ‘favourites’ in Internet Explorer.

Access Delicious bookmarks from any location.

Use tags to categorise your bookmarks.

Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Example Bookmark Bookmark tagged as containing information on or about ‘design’, ‘eBook’, ‘education’, ‘eLearning’, and ‘research’. 50 other Delicious users have also bookmarked this page. Link Name Link URL Tags: what is this link / page about? Number of times this URL has been bookmarked in Delicious

Bookmark tagged as containing information on or about ‘design’, ‘eBook’, ‘education’, ‘eLearning’, and ‘research’.

50 other Delicious users have also bookmarked this page.

Delicious sidebar Add new bookmark Update profile Update tags Quickly browse bookmarks by tag

Add new bookmark

Update profile

Update tags

Quickly browse bookmarks by tag

Delicious Networks Link with colleagues in Delicious: share links between you. Share your Network Badge on Social Network websites and/or Blog

Link with colleagues in Delicious: share links between you.

Share your Network Badge on Social Network websites and/or Blog

Web Browser ‘plug-in’ Internet browsers: Internet Explorer Firefox / Mozilla Google Chrome Safari Opera ‘ Add bookmark’ options. Select from popular tags as well as ones you’ve used previously.

Internet browsers:

Internet Explorer

Firefox / Mozilla

Google Chrome

Safari

Opera

‘ Add bookmark’ options.

Select from popular tags as well as ones you’ve used previously.

Import into Delicious Import existing bookmarks / favourites from Internet browser(s) into Delicious (from multiple machines: only needs to be done once per machine). Export and back-up from Delicious.

Import existing bookmarks / favourites from Internet browser(s) into Delicious (from multiple machines: only needs to be done once per machine).

Export and back-up from Delicious.

Reduce email ‘clutter’ Stop sending emails of useful links you find. Start bookmarking and using Delicious to ‘network’. Encourage colleagues to use Delicious, and join your Network. Encourage colleagues to share their links with you.

Stop sending emails of useful links you find.

Start bookmarking and using Delicious to ‘network’.

Encourage colleagues to use Delicious, and join your Network.

Encourage colleagues to share their links with you.

Thank you for your time David Hopkins Learning Technologist, The Business School, Bournemouth University delicious.com/hopkinsdavidm

David Hopkins Learning Technologist, The Business School, Bournemouth University delicious.com/hopkinsdavidm