Digitalist life in the library

Things 9 & 10 – Social bookmarking

• Thing 9: Sign up for a Delicious account, bookmark and tag some of your favourite web sites.
• Thing 10: Add other Delicious users to your network so that you can easily view their bookmarks.

I have been using delicious now for nearly a year. I can't claim that I go back to it regularly to find things but I find it reassuring to know that I have some links to helpful tools and useful articles there in case I need them someday. I think the ones I go back for the most are those for web design, especially when I'm trying to find a funky colour to use.

The only way to manage your links in delicious is to use tags. It is so important to be consistent so I really like that you get recommendations from your own set of tags when you save a new link.

It was my job recently to move all of the library's links to free resources on the web over to delicious. Prior to this we had kept them on a page on our intranet but this was so unwieldy and made adding a new link extremely time consuming. The ability to tag the bookmarks makes it so easy to group like items and hopefully for our users to quickly and easily locate links of interest to them.

Before now I haven't ever used the network feature of delicious. For thing 10 I added two of my fellow 23 things team members. I find it odd that there's not a way to search for friends/colleagues on there by email address. Unless I've missed something adding people to your network relies on you knowing their username.