Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I met Joshua Schacter in 2005 at the Berkman Center and heard him speak shortly before delicious was acquired by Yahoo. I was hoping this was just a rumor.

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Back to Delicious

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After barking about jots.com, CogDogBlog is back to delicious - using his multi-bookmark tool.

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Alexandra Says Delicious puts the social in social bookmarking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's the visual that I did on gnomz.com after I read Alexandra Samuel's post about how to select tags for delicious. I really wanted to know why she stuck with delicious. Her answer: Delicious puts the social in social bookmarking. She offers a great list of why delicious is great as well as a list of improvements.

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Reflection on Action Learning at CP2 Workshop: Tagging and Delicious

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was great to engage with the "newbie" experience of tagging and delicious and hear the reactions (both good and bad.) Do you have to be disciplined and structured in your search methods/approach to reap benefits from Delicious or is a non-linear approach useful - or does it depend on the user? in my spare time.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

David G suggested to me that we should be posting our public bloglines subscriptions to delicious, another tool introduced during the NTC Tag You're It Session. My first taste of delicious was to transfer my link sources from my browser bookmark -- simply use it as an online bookmarking tool of old. is a social bookmarking tool.

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Why is delicious as slow as watching paint dry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm starting to get annoyed with delicious. It takes forever to bookmark a site with bookmarklet. It is so slow that I feel like banging cha cha cha on the keyboard. It slows me down when I want to bookmark something quickly for later reference - and it isn't my workflow - it is the tool.

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Delicious Bird Tags and Technology Integration

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Step 2: Bookmark in Delicious using appropriate tags Tech Skills: How to bookmark, how to tag, how to point to a resource list from a computer in the lab. Will work with the instructors or lab volunteers on these areas: Step 1: Identify Useful, High Quality Internet Resources Tech Skills: Internet Search Skills, Information Literacy.