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Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

- From Wikipedia

The problem with traditional browser bookmarks is that they are only available if you're using a specific browser on a specific device.

delicious - primarily used to store your bookmarks online, access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere

Using tags, you can organize and remember your bookmarks and access them from home, school, anywhere.
Share your favorite web sites with family, friends, students and colleagues.
Use with students to tag, share and back up bookmarks for research and collaboration.
Discover new sites from the del.icio.us community (browse, find, get recommendations).

Getting started with del.icio.us -

Register for a delicious account. You will need:
- First Name
- Last Name
- E-mail address
- Password
  - at least 6 characters required
  - at least one letter and one symbol or number required
  - may not contain any part of your username or full name
Install the bookmark buttons on your browser
- Bookmarklets
- Firefox Add-on
- Internet Explorer Add-on
Import your favorites/bookmarks to delicious

To save a site to delicious

Click your delicious browser button. This will open a form that has four fields, and two should be pre-filled: url and description.
url – the web address
Description – taken from the title of the web page. HINT: If you highlight descriptive text on the page before posting, it will automatically fill in as a more detailed description.
Add notes (optional)
Choose or create tags - tags are keywords or metainformation, which you will use to organize your bookmarks
Save
To quickly view or access to your bookmarks, click the little dropdown arrow on the browser button OR go to http://delicious.com/username but first replace "username" with your username.

Organize and access your bookmarks from anywhere
Create a network to share your bookmarks
Tag, share and back up bookmarks for research and collaboration.
Discover new sites from the delicious community (browse, find, get recommendations

Using delicious with students

Create personal dictionaries
Share research with each other and teacher
Build hotlists by tag
Subscribe to links under a specific tag
Find out what's popular – http://delicious.com/tag/popular
Keep up to date on a subject/tag - Want to see the latest links about inauguration? http://delicious.com/tag/weather
Combine tags - Want to see links about weather and hurricanes? http://delicious.com/tag/weather+hurricanes
See only popular items - Want to see the popular items for a tag, such as math? http://delicious.com/popular+math
Find by media type - the supported media types are audio, video, image and document. Want to find the latest images of penguins? Or education videos? Checkout: http://delicious.com/tag/system:media:image+penguins and http://delicious.com/tag/system:media:video+education

My delicious links for delicious

Powerful Ingredients wiki site

Other Social Bookmarking Site

Diigo - combines combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search, easy sharing and interactions.