1. Social Bookmarking With del.icio.us del.icio.us Rob Barth Web 2.0 In The Know

2. Delicious allows you to…  Discover  Remember  Save  Organize  Share  From ANY computer

3. Introductions & Logistics  Welcome  Restrooms  Breaks  Emergency Exits

4. Social Bookmarking In Plain English

5. Delicious Agenda  Create a Delicious Account  Install buttons on your IE browser  Bookmark a website  Add Tags and Notes  Create a network with your classmates  Subscriptions  Find any media type, i.e. audio, video, image or document

6. Create Delicious Account  Need a unique user name with at least six characters  Password with at least one letter and one symbol  Full Name  Email Address

7. Install Delicious Buttons  The New “Join” Tool Allows You To Add the Delicious Buttons As Part of the Create Account Process  You May Also Import Your Favorite Bookmarks Already Identified In Your Browser

8. Bookmarks  A URL is simply the address of the web page you are bookmarking  Use your browser add-on toolbar button to tag your web page  Example: Bookmark http://web20intheknow.com

9. Tags  Your bookmarks can either be private or public at this time  Tags are one word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks to help you organize and remember them  Think of them as KEYWORDS

10. Tags Continued  Can rename  Do not form a hierarchy  Flexible  Choose yourself  No spaces allowed, i.e. Kansas City  Bundle tags, i.e. fish, dogs, and cats into “pets”

11. Tags Continued (2)  “for:” tags allow you to send a bookmark to someone who may or may not be in your network  Quicker than email  Receiver is alerted in their Inbox  Example: for:rwb59b

12. Special Tags  You may search bookmarks by media type: audio, video, image, and documents  Audio as system:media:audio or system:filetype:mp3 or wav  Video as system:media:video or system:filetype:mpg or mpeg or wmv or mov

13. Special Tags (2)  Image bookmarks as system:media:image or system:filetype:jpg or jpeg or gif or png  Document bookmarks as system:media:document or system:filetype:doc or pdf

14. Networks  Your NETWORK connects you to the other delicious users such as coworkers, friends, family, educators, etc.  Share your bookmarks and collect from your favorite users’ latest bookmarks

15. Networks Continued  To ADD people to your network, select Add a user from the top right of your network page and type their username  Or…visit their bookmark page and select add user to my network  Example, rwb59b (Rob’s username)

16. Subscriptions  Subscriptions allow you to watch all your favorite tags in one place  “Tag aggregator”  Visit your Subscriptions page and click “Add a subscription”  Can narrow your subscriptions to specific users

17. Delicious For Education  Educators and librarians are embracing Delicious to help students learn  Visit the Delicious Blog for articles relating to social bookmarking and education  http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/03/wh o-says-librarians-and-teachers-dont-like- tags.html http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/03/wh o-says-librarians-and-teachers-dont-like- tags.html http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/03/wh o-says-librarians-and-teachers-dont-like- tags.html

18. Wrap-Up  Contact Information For Rob Barth  Website, http://web20intheknow.com http://web20intheknow.com  Email, rob@web20intheknow.com rob@web20intheknow.com  Cellular Phone, 573-718-9974  Thank you to Shannon and the Poplar Bluff Public Library!