Delicious is a social bookmarking site that we are using to collectively gather websites, wikis, blogs and other online resources with interesting content about knowledge management in the context of development cooperation. We have chosen delicious because it is used by a large number of people, but have found out it is not so intuitive for everyone, so if you are new to delicious, it may take some time to get used to it.
But what is social bookmarking in the first place? Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public website and 'tagging' them with keywords, meaning you add information about the content. The tagging allows you to find your resources lateron, but also to follow other people's resources with the same tag. If you like to know more: here are some good starter resources.
Del.icio.us basics
- http://del.icio.us – The del.icio.us website
- http://del.icio.us/help/ – Useful start-up information
- Del.icio.us cheat sheet – Explanation of del.icio.us by Beth Kanter
- Seven things you should know about social bookmarking – Introduction on social bookmarking in general
- http://slackermanager.com/2005/12/the_several_hab.html - the several habits of wildly successful delicious users with good tips for starting delicious users
- http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5508.cfm- 13 tips for effective tagging
Examples of del.icio.us users
- http://del.icio.us/joitske – Joitske Hulsebosch’s links on Communities of Practice, ICT4DEV / KM4DEV and online interaction
- http://del.icio.us/choconancy – Nancy White on online interaction and facilitation (tools and processes)
- http://del.icio.us/dorineruter – My own links on KM4DEV and online interaction
Examples of how del.icio.us is used by other development organisations or individuals
- http://del.icio.us/euforic – Use of del.icio.us within an organization / network
- http://euforic.org (click on RSS feeds) – Example of tag display (at bottom of page)
- http://www.iaald.org – Example of most recent bookmarks displayed elsewhere via an RSS feed
- http://www.km4dev.suprglu.com – Combined feeds of 6 people joining in a KM4DEV tagging experiment
- http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com –my own example of npk4dev resources via the feed in the sidebar - just here on the right side
- http://www.r-mail.org/ – Tool (one of many) to keep track of new items via e-mail
- http://del.icio.us/dorineruter/bookmarking – Some of Dorine's bookmarks of del.icio.us related tools, to use once you have gotten to know del.icio.us
Learning more about delicious
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/ - A yahoo group about delicious
- http://socialsourcecommons.org/tool/show/67/support - for more links about delicious
- http://www.twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/- to explore your own delicious network
- http://www.ivy.fr/revealicious/index.html - for visual representations of tags
- http://tagcrowd.com/ - to create a tagcloud
- http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/browse/visualizations - more visualizations including per tagger
- http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5719.cfmm - tips for tidying tags
- http://www.econsultant.com/delicious-by-function/index.html - delicious from A to Z
- http://www.unthinkingly.com/experiments/nptech/understanding_nptech.php - the amazing tagcloud of nptech
And here's a great and attractive presentation from Beth Kanter about tagging for collaboration and knowledge sharing:
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