A Curation Tool By:

Erin Brinkley

Theresa Roderique

Created by Yahoo.com

A social bookmarking website for storing, sharing, and locating web bookmarks.

Organized by tags

What is Delicious?

Search: by tags, followers, keywords/topic, or a website

My Links: Locate your previously saved links/websites

Network: follow friends or locate someone who has an account on Delicious. A way to discover more bookmarks.

Discover: Community/Website picks based on your interests (based on what you have saved as your links)

Add Link: Where you can add a website (can add a tag, title, and a description)

Settings: Manage your profile and import/export bookmarks

Overview of Delicious: Outline

By adding a tag(s) to a link/website you save, it is easy to locate and organize your information by topic.

Lists the tags in alphabetical order on the right side of your homepage.

Can locate a website based on a topic by clicking on a follower’s tag or by subscribing by a tag name.

Allows users to group links with similar topics by using the tag bundles.

Special Features: Tags

The option to view people who are following your links and the option to follow others (Like friends on Facebook).

You can add a picture and bio to your profile.

You can share a link on Facebook or Twitter through the website.

You can click to have your links private or public from followers.

Special Features: Social Aspect

Plain and simple design to the website

Does not have a lot of bells and whistles like most social bookmarking websites (simple and easy)

There is no pop-up window on the web browser like most bookmarking websites offer, so you have to go back to the Delicious website to add a link.

Can only add one picture of yourself (The social aspect is not as great as Facebook)

Limitations

www.Delicious.com (could download the App)

Click on “Join Delicious” for free (can sign up through Twitter, Facebook, Google, or your email)

Create username and password

Option to add Delicious to your toolbar to have easier access

Option to import existing bookmarks on your computer right in the beginning

How to Get Started

Click on “add link”

Type in the URL or copy and paste it from the website

The title of the link automatically appears, but it can be changed.

Suggestions for tags show up or you may create your own (add them)

Comment: you may add a description of the link for you and your followers.

Special Features: make public/private or share a link on Facebook/Twitter

How to get started … Saving a link

Example: Homepage

Example: Signing In

Example: Search: by tags, followers,

keywords/topic, or a website

Example: My Links:

Locate your previously saved links/websites

Example: Network: follow friends or locate someone who has an account on Delicious. A

way to discover more bookmarks.

Example: Discover - Community/Website picks based on your interests

Example: Add Link: Where you can add a website (can add a tag, title,

and a description)

Example: Settings: Manage your profile and import/export bookmarks

* Look up Delicious on Wikipedia or click this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_%28website%29

This article provides a decent site description, history, and overview of AVOS Systems, Delicious’ parent company.

Click on http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-use-delicious-social-bookmarking/

This is a very understandable, comprehensive description and tutorial for novices. It does a much better job than I could illuminating the tremendous variety of options available in Delicious.

Google “collaborative librarianship social bookmarking sites review.” Your first hit will take you to an informative scholarly article that discusses the expanding role of social bookmarking in libraries and compares/contrasts four popular sites, of which Delicious is on.

Where to learn more…