Delicious is a social bookmarking site which allows you to bookmark and share your favorite websites and access those bookmarks from any computer, at any time, from anywhere. This means you can access all of your bookmarks at work, home, or on a computer that may not be your own. Through notes and tags, you can also keep track of why you bookmark certain pages, and attach key terms to categorize them for yourself and others. You can also share your bookmarks with other Delicious users, through Twitter, or via e-mail. You can even keep up with interesting tags through subscriptions and Network features. Delicious appears to be an excellent tool for helping you find and share a site that you may not be able to remember while you’re away from you primary computer, as your bookmarks would now be accessible anywhere you go. Also, the feature of having a network of other users, such as your coworkers or other colleagues, interesting people in your field, and even bloggers that you may follow, would be helpful to stay up-to-date on pertinent information.
It is essentially an address book, which is very helpful to correlate with colleagues on projects, keep up-to-date in your field, and share the newest information or points of interest with like-minded individuals who may also find it useful. To better organize your network, you can utilize network bundles, such as bundling all your coworkers’ bookmarks separately from all your friends’ or family’s. Likewise, you can also bundle your subscriptions, such as professional in one place, hobbies in another. You can decide whether to make bookmarks private (only you can see them) or public (everyone can see them), although it does not yet offer the option of allowing only your network to see them. When searching bookmarks, you can view based on a timeline, such as within the last day, month, six months, or year. As a LIS professional, I could see using Delicious for all of the aforementioned reasons. I also could see using it on my library’s Facebook page to add professional bookmarks and tags. Likewise, our library website and blog could add a “Bookmark on Delicious” button to make sharing easier and thus attract more viewership/followers. Also, the more people in your field who save a bookmark may prove its usefulness to you too. I mean, if a thousand people in your field found it important enough to bookmark to revisit, it might be important to you as well. Another helpful feature of Delicious is that you can search bookmarks of certain file types to help you quickly and easily find what you’re looking for. For example, you can separately search tags for audio, video, image, or documents. The tags, which are like keywords, are one word labels to help you remember and organize your bookmarks. They also help you build a “collaborative repository of related information, driven by personal interests and creative organization.”
I found it simple and easy to create a Delicious account. It only required a little information, a username and password, and a little reading to acquaint myself with setup. You can quickly install Delicious on your web browser, such as Firefox. Doing this put user-friendly buttons on my browser’s toolbar so that I can visit Delicious, see my bookmarks, or tag with just one easy click of the mouse. When using the tag button, it automatically offers popular tags for each website, based on content. You can peruse my bookmarks at:
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