This is a PPt that goes with a podcasts, but probably could stand alone, on using social bookmarking tools esp Delicious

1. Web 2.0: Delicious & social bookmarking A brief look at tools & applications

5. Delicious homepage : Latest items added to delicious N.B. Counter of the number of times has been listed in Delicious Search box Tags info

6. Usual registration procedures…

7. Install buttons in browser (or links)… Alternatively use ‘post’ (Is a tutorial as step 3)

8. Can see basic functionality on blank page (search, tag options, showing) Search Tagging ‘Show’ options

9. Go searching for what interests you. When find it, click on Delicious button to open your account & add link to your collection (tag button to add link if already logged in).

12. The item will then come up in Delicious, along with your notes & tags ! You continue adding more links in this manner. If at another PC, can use ‘post’ rather than installing buttons.

13. You can also import all your existing favourites by using the ‘settings > bookmarks > import’ function This imports links with tags based on your original folder arrangement. By default all imports are ‘private’ (you have to make them public if you want the world to see them)

16. Search by selecting a tag (e.g. Blogsearch), & Delicious will display all the items in your collection that you have tagged with that term. Unlike with folders, items can have multiple & different tags

18. Another social bookmarker is FURL which saves entire webpages. Very useful if have sites with dynamic URLs e.g. newspapers - can act as own personal archive or ‘wayback machine’

19. Another couple of interesting ones for anyone researching are based around referencing, & allow export to BibTeX & Endnote: Connotea & CiteULike