Passaic Valley is Proud to Present An Appetite for Technology, a Lesson in:Social Bookmarking :Passaic Valley is Proud to Present An Appetite for Technology, a Lesson in:Social Bookmarking


What is Social Bookmarking? :What is Social Bookmarking? Bookmarking is defined as the practice of saving website addresses for future references. Social bookmarking refers to saving the bookmarks of a public website and tagging them with relevant keywords for future use. Allows an individual to store tags on the web that are accessible from any computer around the globe Provides users a user-friendly taxonomy system that provides a place to store, categorize, annotate and share favorite web pages and files


What is Tagging? :What is Tagging? ‘Tag’ resources with meaningful keywords The system works in a unique way by assigning tags to each resource and providing user directed method of classifying information. Tagging sites allow users to save their favorite links, content, and media to a centrally accessible site, similar to how you save your “Favorites” to your web browser The difference between “Tagging” and “Favorites” is that tagged sites can be accessed from any internet-connected computer, where as, “Favorites,” have to be accessed from the computer in which they were saved.


Benefits of Tagging :Benefits of Tagging You can share tagged and posted items with other users See what other people have bookmarked as relevant to a particular topic Quick Indexing: You do not have to search through pages and pages of irrelevant search results Enables like-minded people to find each other and create new communities of users around a topic Allows a specific group of people (staff members in an organization for example) to share resources efficiently


Benefits of Tagging :Benefits of Tagging Can help you find new insights about a topic by seeing how others think and connect to it Creates contextual taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community/group of people (good for different cultural contexts) Incorporate various mechanisms for sharing information outside of the tools (via RSS, integration with other tools such as blogging software) Save and categorize personal collection of bookmarkers and share other Internet bookmarks


Benefits of Tagging :Benefits of Tagging Access to various other bookmarks that other registered users have created and saved Enhance the social contacts by interacting with other users sharing common tags Increases the social circle of the user Resource credibility Other benefits include: enhanced traffic, joint ventures, increased sales, friendly e-mails, improved social contacts and increased marketability.


How to begin bookmarking :How to begin bookmarking To social bookmark, you need to register with any social bookmarking site: Flickr, Dig, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Furl, Simpy and Delicious. Today, we will be working with Delicious


Visit del.icio.us :Visit del.icio.us Click on register


Step 1:Enter Details :Step 1:Enter Details Enter: -Username -Your name -Password -Email


Step 2: Install Buttons :Step 2: Install Buttons Click here


Slide 11:Click Run


Slide 12:Click Next


Slide 13:Accept Agreement


Slide 14:Click Next


Step 3: Button Tutorial :Step 3: Button Tutorial Tag Button del.icio.us Button


del.icio.us Button :del.icio.us Button “Your Favorites” Click this button to get to your saved pages, which are always available at: http://del.icio.us/yourusername


Click the drop down and you have the del.icio.us menu.Quick access to frequent del.icio.us tasks :Click the drop down and you have the del.icio.us menu.Quick access to frequent del.icio.us tasks


Tag Button :Tag Button “Tag This Page” As you browse the web and find a page you want to save, click this button. You can add a description, notes, and tags to the page before saving it.


Instead of Clicking the Buttons :Instead of Clicking the Buttons You can right-click and save a page directly from the right-click menu.


Let’s Tag a Page… :Let’s Tag a Page… Click on Tag Button


Another screen appears… :Another screen appears… Here you can add Notes and Tags to organize your websites. When your finished, click Save


Slide 22:Highlight notes. Add notes to your post by highlighting text before saving the page.


To See the pages you have saved, click on the del.icio.us button :To See the pages you have saved, click on the del.icio.us button


Slide 24:Here are all of your tags. You can narrow the search by clicking on the specific tag. Here you can see how many other people saved that same site and you can click to see their notes and their other saved sites.


Now that you have your del.icio.us account set up. Get TAGGING!!!Good Luck! :Now that you have your del.icio.us account set up. Get TAGGING!!!Good Luck!