Making Your Bookmarks Yummy with del.icio.us BCR Free Friday Forum, 5 January 2006 Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer

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What is del.icio.us? Social Software Store your bookmarks online Tag your bookmarks Share your bookmarks with others Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

Social Software

Store your bookmarks online

Tag your bookmarks

Share your bookmarks with others

Subscribe to bookmarks with RSS

Creating an account

Adding new bookmarks

Tagging Adding “a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.” (Wikipedia)

Adding “a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.” (Wikipedia)

An example of tagging

The importance of tagging “folksonomy” Ask yourself: What words might my patrons use to find this item? del.icio.us will provide suggested tags Tags are searchable!

“folksonomy”

Ask yourself: What words might my patrons use to find this item?

del.icio.us will provide suggested tags

Tags are searchable!

your bookmarks

A tag in your bookmarks

Importing your bookmarks settings| import/ upload

settings| import/ upload

Editing a bookmark

Tag Bundles Logical groupings of related tags you’ve used. Create them via settings | bundle tags

Logical groupings of related tags you’ve used.

Create them via settings | bundle tags

Bundle tags

Tag Bundles example

Renaming & Deleting tags settings | rename tags settings | delete tags

settings | rename tags

settings | delete tags

Your network Think of it as your del.icio.us friends list. Add other users to your network to keep track of what they’re bookmarking.

Think of it as your del.icio.us friends list.

Add other users to your network to keep track of what they’re bookmarking.

Your network

for: Add the tag for: username to send a bookmark to another del.icio.us user. Users in your network will appear as suggested tags when you add a new bookmark.

Add the tag for: username to send a bookmark to another del.icio.us user.

Users in your network will appear as suggested tags when you add a new bookmark.

Links for you

Subscriptions Like your network but for tags. Can be limited to a tag when used by a specific user.

Like your network but for tags.

Can be limited to a tag when used by a specific user.

Subscriptions

Searching

Privacy It is possible to mark bookmakrs as private, i.e. not seen by others. You must first turn this option on in settings | private saving.

It is possible to mark bookmakrs as private, i.e. not seen by others.

You must first turn this option on in settings | private saving.

Firefox Add-ons del.icio.us classic https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532 del.icio.us Bookmarks https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/

del.icio.us classic

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532

del.icio.us Bookmarks

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/

del.icio.us classic Adds buttons to the toolbar to access your del.icio.us account and to add bookmarks.

Adds buttons to the toolbar to access your del.icio.us account and to add bookmarks.

del.icio.us bookmarks Replaces Firefox’s bookmarking system with the content of your del.icio.us account.

Replaces Firefox’s bookmarking system with the content of your del.icio.us account.

RSS in del.icio.us All accounts and/or tags have associated RSS feeds available. (Find it at the bottom of the page.)

All accounts and/or tags have associated RSS feeds available. (Find it at the bottom of the page.)

Reading a del.icio.us feed

Republishing del.icio.us RSS Send the RSS feed of your bookmarks through a service such as feed2js to display a list of your 10 most recent bookmarks on your Web site.

Send the RSS feed of your bookmarks through a service such as feed2js to display a list of your 10 most recent bookmarks on your Web site.

Republishing your bookmarks

Thank you! Any questions? Michael Sauers [email_address] http://travelinlibrarian.info/ http://del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian/

Any questions?

Michael Sauers

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