Social Bookmarking Easy, Handy, and Helpful Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D.

Del.icio.us http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

My Account Available anywhere to anyone Tags for my purposes

Available anywhere to anyone

Tags for my purposes

My Tags Some sites - one tag Others - multiple tags My own personalized sort-of Google

Some sites - one tag

Others - multiple tags

My own personalized sort-of Google

Social I see others have saved the same site I click on the link

I see others have saved the same site

I click on the link

Finding Others with the Same Interests I see the account names of the others who share my interest and have linked to this site. I click on that link.

I see the account names of the others who share my interest and have linked to this site.

I click on that link.

Research Assisstance! I can explore what they have saved!

I can explore what they have saved!

Add 2 Icons The square box is the link to your collection The one with the word “TAG” allows you to save the link

The square box is the link to your collection

The one with the word “TAG” allows you to save the link

Adding a Link & Tags

Why Social Bookmarking? Most of the links for this presentation available on my home computer and my work computer Quickly found using del.icio.us Tags allow personal labelling, which is easier to remember

Most of the links for this presentation

available on my home computer and my work computer

Quickly found using del.icio.us

Tags allow personal labelling, which is easier to remember