Delicious / Social Bookmarking

Delicious – what is it

• Social Bookmarking website
• Save and store bookmarks online
• Organise them with tags or keywords
• Be social – follow other bookmarkers and send / receive links
• Alas education is an overused word http://delicious.com/tag/education

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

See the ESCalate Delicious account for Education related bookmarks or the Economics Network Delicious account for Economics related links

Delicious – possible uses

• Keeping the same set of bookmarks if using more than one computer
• Organise collection of resources around an agreed tag – escelearn
• One link for related resources http://delicious.com/cfbloke/alissweb2
• Social bookmarking – develop a network and share the load
• An alternative search engine
• … and many more from Gabriela Grosseck

Exercise

• Go to Delicious at http://delicious.com/ and register for an account
• Add your favourite Social Sciences website to your account
• Add the tag alissweb2 when bookmarking it and search for alissweb2

Advanced

Add another Delicious user to your network http://delicious.com/help/faq#network

Blog

Add your delicious bookmarks or the alissweb2 bookmarks to your blog

http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/delicious-widget/