using delicious to decrease emails
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Using Delicious to Decrease Emails
When you’re on a team
You often share resources with your team
And that can be very helpful
But…what happens when 30% of your emails are links to great resources?
Email clutter
Maybe it’s you, who’s doing the sharing
Hoping the people on the other end are excited to see your great resource
Or maybe…
You’re the recipient
who is just a little
frustrated…
to see one more email with just a link
Email has become the only tool people use
My dad always says…
If all you have is a hammer
Everything else is a nail
Unfortunately, email doesn’t always get that nail into the wood
No matter how hard you swing
Think about it…
With email…
Great resources quickly get lost in the clutter
Searching for and retrieving information is often painful and stressful
The only option for archiving and organizing these types of emails…
…is with folders…which can quickly get out of hand
Here’s where Delicious comes to save the day
Using Delicious, you can create a library of resource links that…
Can be accessed anywhere you have an internet connection…
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…by anyone in the world
Can be quickly searched to find
exactly what you need…
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…using a search box
…or the handy dandy tags
Can include extra notes to provide even more useful information
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Can eliminate the need to email links
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So, how can you make this work for your team…
Sign up for an account … 1
…using an email address, user name & password that you will share with your team
Encourage your team to add browser buttons to quickly and easily save links to the delicious account
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And to take the tour
http://delicious.com/help/fulltour/ie
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You may want to come up with a standard set of tags to use for your team
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What are tags?
Delicious says…
Tags are one-word descriptors that you assign to your bookmarks to help you organize and remember them
http://delicious.com/help/faq#tags
Tags are a little bit like keywords, but you choose them yourself and they do not form a hierarchy.
Assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like - you can always rename or delete the tags later
Tagging is a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders
http://engagedlearning.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tags-vs-hierarchy.png
Need more information on this whole social bookmarking phenomena?Check out this video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English
Encourage your team to jump on the Delicious bandwagon and decrease emails
Michelle E. JohnsonDoor 41 Solutionswww.door41.com
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