1. News Feeds & Social Bookmarking Practical skills for managing information overload Ian Watson Knowledge & Information Manager Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services

3. Keeping up to date The Old Way Blogs http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/ Web sites http://www.guardian.co.uk/society Millions of possible sites to check for anything new Very time consuming

6. Click on the icon Click 'Subscribe' Example, using Internet Explorer 7

7. Whenever there is anything new on these sites, you can see at glance in your browser

8. You can organise your feeds into folders

17. After installing buttons, a 'tag' icon appears on the toolbar. Click the icon when you want to bookmark the current page. A dialogue box will appear...

18. Type in some tags (keywords) to describe this site Tags are suggested You don't have to let others see what you are bookmarking.

19. Building a network Click the delicious button Your bookmarks on delicious appear You can search either your own bookmarks or everyone's.

20. This page bookmarked by 1082 other people. Click the link to see who is bookmarking it

21. Read what others said about this page See what other sites have been bookmarked by these users

22. If you like what this person is bookmarking, you can add him to your network And you can see who is in his network

23. And I will appear as one of his 'fans' – you can choose to add 'fans' to your network or not Joevans is now in my network

24. When you tag a page, you can mark it for the attention of people in your network

25. When someone in my network tags something for me I can see it by clicking 'Links for you' And I can set up an RSS feed to save me visiting del.icio.us to check for new suggestions!