Delicious

1. Introduction
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 * Follow-up Article:** 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking

2. Getting Started
Go to [|http://delicious.com] and click **Join Now** at the top to create a Delicious account.

3. Installing the Delicious bookmarklets
To make Delicious easier to use at school, let's install the Delicious bookmarklets in Internet Explorer. This will allow you to quickly add bookmarks to your Delicious:
 * 1) Go to http://delicious.com/help/bookmarklets
 * 2) Scroll down to **Internet Explorer (Manual)** and follow the instructions.
 * 3) In the pop-up window, in the **Create in** box, choose the **Links** folder.

4. How to Add Bookmarks

 * When you are at the site you wish to bookmark, select **Bookmark on Delicious** from your **Favorites** folder.
 * Be sure to add tag words. You can enter as many tag words as you wish. You can create your own or choose from a list of suggestions.
 * You should include a note to help you remember why you bookmarked the site. Some people like to copy/paste the first sentence or two from the website.

5. Installing Delicious Buttons at Home
Adding Delicious buttons to your web browser is the optimal way to use Delicious. After the buttons are installed, simply click in the toolbar to add bookmarks to your Delicious.
 * [|Buttons for Firefox]
 * [|Buttons for Internet Explorer]

6. Start Bookmarking and Tagging!
Now go out there and bookmark! If you wish to import the bookmarks already saved on your browser, login to Delicious and click **Settings** and then **Import/Upload Bookmarks**.

7. What Others are Bookmarking
There are several ways to to see what other people are bookmarking: This a great alternative to doing a Google search because real people have bookmarked the websites they found most useful.
 * __searching Delicious:__ on the Delicious **Home** page, use the **Search Delicious** box at the top right
 * __exploring tags:__ on the Delicious **Home** page, click **Explore Tags**
 * __exploring usernames:__ on the Delicious **Home** page, click **Go to a user**

8. Networks, Subscriptions, and Inbox
For more infomation on how to do all this, see the Delicious Help Page for Networks, Subscription, and Inbox
 * **NETWORKS:** This is the "social" part of social bookmarking. Add other users to your network and get quick access to what they are bookmarking, who is in their network, and their subscriptions. Your network is public.
 * **SUBSCRIPTIONS:** Subscriptions allow you to watch all your favorite tags in one place. After you add a tag to your subscriptions, Delicious watches for everyone's bookmarks saved with that tag and delivers them to your subscriptions page. Your subscriptions are public.
 * **INBOX:** This is where you can receive bookmarks from other Delicious users. Your Inbox is not visible to other users.


 * HELPFUL TIP:** If you like to quickly share links with other faculty and/or students, create a unique, but relevant, tag and subscribe to it. For example, you might ask students to bookmark webpages about World War II for a study guide or for a project. You could ask everyone to tag relevant sites with "teachernameWWII" and then subscribe to that tag. Now everyone can easily see all the sites bookmarked by the class. You can even add this growing list of sites as one link in eChalk.

9. Adding Bookmarked Sites to eChalk

 * 1) On your eChalk class page, go to "Resources"
 * 2) Click "Link to a site on the Web"
 * 3) For "website address" use the URL of your Delicious pages with the relevant bookmarks.
 * 4) Add title, description, and choose the classes to share.
 * 5) Now, when students click on the resource in eChalk, they will be taken to the Delicious page with all the links.
 * 6) What's the benefit? As the list grows and changes in Delicious, you do not have to make any changes in eChalk!

10. RSS Feeds
This is a fantastic feature! Stay updated when other people bookmark websites! First, explore Delicious by tags or by username (or both). When you have the combination you want, go to your **Favorites** folder and select the **Subscribe...** link we created with Google Reader. You'll now get updates about tags and/or other users in Google Reader!

11. Diigo
Diigo is like Delicious on steroids. Diigo allows you to take personal notes and highlight text information on web pages just as you would on a piece of paper. You can then bookmark and save this information for further review, while adding tags to keep everything organized. In bookmarking this information, you can also choose to share with colleagues and friends to allow them to access the web page, view your notes and highlights, and add their own annotations. All of this information is also saved online and can be accessed by any computer or browser, including cell phones with browsing capabilities.

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