More Fun with Del.icio.us at ASTE

This is the outline of the presentation on Feb. 27, 2007

1. Check level of participant experience

a. Using/organizing bookmarks

On computer
Online

2. Check participant goals for being here

a. What would make this a worthwhile hour
b. What had you thought you were going to get by coming

3. Set up del.icio.us account at http://del.icio.us

a. Click on the register link at the right
b. Username can’t contain @ or –
c. Write down your username and password!!
d. Put the subscribe button from the help area in your bookmarks bar

4. Tag websites that you find interesting

a. When at the website, click on your del.icio.us link in the bookmarks bar
b. Develop your own tags and look at what others have used

5. How to share tags

a. Develop a common unusual tag eg: pharm101
b. Subscribe to each other’s bookmarks (network)

i. Can make the network private

c. Send links to someone: For:username eg. For:ak_lee to send me links
d. Examples of how you could use this?

6. Research

a. Have trouble using google –sifting through the chaff? What if 1000’s of others have already don that?
b. Tags- look at http://del.icio.us/tag/<tagname>

i. E.g. http://del.icio.us/tag/mathematics
ii. See the related links list on the right side of the page
iii. If one name pops up a lot, subscribe to the tag and their usename
iv. Or add their usersname to your network

c. Mulitiple tags http://del.icio.us/tag/<tagname>+<tagname>

i. E.g. http://del.icio.us/tag/mathematics+education

d. Subscriptions to tags

7. More info

a. Del.icio.us help

b. http://del.icio.us/tag/delicious

c. http://del.icio.us/tag/del.icio.us