Sunday, May 22, 2011

Week 3 - Level 1 DELICIOUS

Sign up for a Delicious account
How many computers do you use throughout your day?  Maybe one at your public service desk, another in your office, and then maybe another at home.  If you use your favorites option on your computer to save your favorite website links you may find it frustrating remembering what computer you saved a website to.  Wouldn't it be great to save all those favorite websites in one place that you can access from any computer?  Let's take a look at the social bookmarking site Delicious, which allows you to just that!  Delicious lets you bookmark your favorite websites and add tags. Also, with Delicious, you can see how other people tag their links and find more websites by seeing what others use.
We recommend viewing this brief video by Donna Papacosta of Trafalgar Communications on How to Use Delicious before signing up for your free account. Signing up is easy!  Go to Delicious and select "Join Now" in the right hand corner, or sign up from here.  (Please note that Delicious was previously owned by Yahoo and was recently sold.  All features of Delicious remain the same).
Next, play around with Delicious and see how easily this tool can replace your traditional browser favorites list. Explore the site options and look at bookmarks that have been selected by other users. You can import your bookmarks from your Favorites list on your computer, tag and organize them, and then you will be able to access them from any PC. 

Level 1 Exercise:
Bookmark and tag some useful sites, then create a blog post about your thoughts and experience with this tool.
  • How can delicious be more convenient then using your favorite options?
  • How did you tag your items?  Do you think tagging makes organizing websites easier to find?
  • Did you look at other peoples Delicious pages? Did you find anything useful?
  • If you are already a Delicious user how does it help you? What are your favorite features

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