I’ve been a del.icio.us user for a couple of years. I started social bookmarking with Furl and made the switch mostly because of the number of users. Del.icio.us is all about the network. I have almost 1000 bookmarks and I’m sure at least half of them are from my network. If you’re not currently using the network feature of del.icio.us you’re missing out.
One of the most important feeds I subscribe to is my del.icio.us network. Like twitter I can follow anyone’s bookmarks so daily I receive a feed of bookmarks from the likes of Will Richardson, David Jakes, Jeff Utecht, Wes Fryer and 23 other people (I need to add to that number). If you want add me to your network for example, simply go to your network link at the top of the delicious page and add the user of your choice on the right side of the page. To subscribe to your network page, click the RSS icon at the bottom of the page and you’ll be able to be notified every time your network has added a new bookmark. One more part of my research team. These people are scouring the web looking for the very best, most interesting pieces of content.
There are many other tutorials but I created this one very quickly to demonstrate what you need to do.
Today, people like twitter when links are posted. Often this leads to some great discoveries and learning. Del.icio.us has been doing the same thing for a while. Last time I checked only 16 or so were following my bookmarks, I think I’m close to 50 now. More important, I had been stuck on about 23 people that I follow. That’s not near enough.
Go to del.icio.us and start building your team.
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December 4th, 2007 at 11:24 am
[...] Del.icio.us as the precursor to TwitterBy Dean ShareskiLike twitter I can follow anyone’s bookmarks so daily I receive a feed of bookmarks from the likes of Will Richardson, David Jakes, Jeff Utecht, Wes Fryer and 23 other people (I need to add to that number). …Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech - http://ideasandthoughts.org [...]
December 4th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I’ll take a look at your tutorials later. I just wanted to say that this is an important post for people who don’t realize that del.icio.us is more than just a place to save their links. I don’t have a huge list of people in my network. I’ll probably develop it more over the school breaks. I find it very useful to click on my network from time to time. Whenever I take the time to look, I always find something interesting. This is another reason for everyone to try to put a descriptive sentence along with the saved link. It’s helpful to see what the other person was thinking when they saved the link. Sometimes I’ll find out where they found the info, sometimes it helps me figure out if I want to follow the link at the moment.
Twitter is great for a quick stop in the staff room as DKuropatwa recently said. It’s helped answer questions for me real time. I’m drawn there more for interaction. Feel free to peruse my links: del.icio.us/njtechteacher
Ann
December 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
My network feed on del.icio.us is my customised edtech newspaper. Great to get the pulse of what the edublogosphere is up to.
Thanks for the add.
Claudia
fceblog elsewhere
December 5th, 2007 at 5:29 am
As you said in your 3rd sentence, Delicious about the power of the network. This is one of the aspects of Delicious that took me some time to “get” as well. Yet, it reflects our movement from collective to collaborative intelligence (http://static.flickr.com/49/135959002_044797a68c_o.png)
Take care,
Miguel Guhlin
December 5th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Great post, Dean.
I’ve been using del.icio.us for several years now - but have never really delved very far into the networking features of it until now.
It’s great having you as a part of my network,
D
P.S. I’m up for another rematch in Scrabble when you are.
December 8th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I recently started using del.icio.us to organize the websites my students use at school. Using the tags help the kids find what they are looking for much easier. Soon I’ll take a peek at the network part of this, but for now, I’m just getting the hang of it.
del.icio.us/imcguy - mine
del.icio.us/horacemann - my school
Chad
December 9th, 2007 at 10:13 am
This was a great idea! I followed a few networks and found lots of people I recognize from the online education communities. Some post del.icio.us links from their blog, so I get them in my reader anyhow, but now I can easily browse links from lots of people I respect. I’m learning more from my “team” every day. Thanks for the insight into another aspect of del.icio.us! — Sarah (my links are at del.icio.us/sutterphoto )
December 13th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I have always thought of Instant Messaging as the forerunner to Twitter. To me, Twitter is basically a ‘message all’ function.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Stephen,
The aspect of twitter I was focusing on was the sharing of links. Del.icio.us is a “link to all” tool as is twitter.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
> Del.icio.us is a “link to all” tool as is twitter.
So is instant messaging, and it was my major source of links before blogging.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
IM was a link to many? I would have seen it as a link to one rather than to many.
December 14th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Dean,
I agree that like you my network needs to be expanded!
I also would like to point out that there is a lot of value in using the ‘notes’ when posting to del.icio.us. Now that I’m over 800 bookmarks, I find the title alone often just isn’t enough. Notes save me time checking out a vague title and help me to ensure that the link I am opening is one I am interested in… so some advice to all… for the sake of your network take 30 seconds and add a note. This is especially easy with the Firefox buttons since highlighted text gets added to the notes section!
Also, nive work on the tutorial! I did a del.icio.us tutorial using Powerpoint over Elluminate with a class in Vancouver… this was a lot of fun!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/905883/Delicious1 (a copy of the powerpoint)
The highlight was my student, a del.icio.us power-user giving hints on how she uses subscriptions. We decided on MSN (used as a presenters back channel since we were not together) not to do the RSS section of the presentation since we were unaware beforehand of the low level of understanding of the students’ web2.0 involvement.
Still it was great to learn strategies from my student. When we find the time we will do an improved session on Jing or Slideshare or ???
I think it is interesting that recently I have taken a break from my RSS Reader… My Twitter and Del.icio.us networks have kept me too busy!
December 14th, 2007 at 8:39 am
> IM was a link to many? I would have seen it as a link to one rather than to many.
No, no.
IM was a link to one person at a time (selected from a list of many people).
Twitter is *like* IM *except* that it is a send-to-many.