This document provides an overview and instructions for using the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. It discusses how to create an account, add and tag bookmarks, import existing bookmarks, edit tags, create tag bundles, add other users to your network, subscribe to tags, search bookmarks, and use privacy settings. It also covers using del.icio.us RSS feeds and republishing your bookmarks through RSS on other websites.

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

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

7. Creating an account

8. Adding new bookmarks

9. 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)

10. An example of tagging

11. 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!

12. your bookmarks

13. A tag in your bookmarks

14. Importing your bookmarks settings| import/ upload

15. Editing a bookmark

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

17. Bundle tags

18. Tag Bundles example

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

20. 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.

21. Your network

22. 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.

23. Links for you

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

25. Subscriptions

26. Searching

27. 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.

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

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

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

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

32. Reading a del.icio.us feed

33. 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.

34. Republishing your bookmarks

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