Working with Delicious (The DIGstoUMW Collective)

One of the requirements for Spring 2011, Section 1 of Digital Storytelling is to contribute resource to the DIGstoUMW Collective.

Contributions to the Collective are made through the social bookmarking site, Delicious. Contributions can be links to story examples, readings, tutorials, tools/software, or anything else on the Web that you think might be relevant to the class. I expect you to spend a portion of each week looking for things to bookmark that will be interesting to your classmates. As the semester progresses, I will likely set aside time during each class to look through the latest contributions. In addition, a rating system (in development) will make it possible for you to vote/comment on your classmates' submissions.

Below are a few tips and some information about working with Delicious.

What is Delicious?
Delicious is a social bookmarking service. Anyone can create an account on Delicious and then save bookmarks to their account. These bookmarks can then be easily accessed from any computer on the Web or shared with other users in Delicious.

When you create bookmarks in Delicious, you can add a description as well as "tags" to describe the link.

http://digsto.umwblogs.org/files/2011/01/anatomy-e1295965653298.png ("Anatomy" of a Delicious Bookmark)

For this class, every link you save should be tagged with "digstoumw". The course Web site then pulls a feed of all of the bookmarks on Delicious that use this tag. In this way, we can import everyone's Delicious contributions into the course site for further ratings/commenting/archiving.

Getting Started

 * 1) You will need to create an account to use Delicious. If you go to http://delicious.com, you'll see a geen button in the upper-right hand corner labeled "Join Now." Click this.
 * 2) The window that appears will prompt you to login if you have a Yahoo! account. Delicious is owned by Yahoo!, so if you have a Yahoo! account you can simply link it to Delicious. If you don't have a Yahoo! account, you'll need to sign up for a new one. (In addition, it is possible to sign in using your Facebook or Google account -- I've never done this before, but feel free to try.)
 * 3) Once you've created your Yahoo! account and linked it to Delicious (or linked your existing Yahoo! account to Delicious), you'll get a confirmation message and a couple of options. I highly recommend you check out the "Bookmarklets" that are available in Delicious. These basically add a link to your browser's bookmark bar so that you can quickly and easily bookmark Web sites. In addition, there are fancier extensions/add-ons for most browsers. These will make bookmarking even easier.
 * http://digsto.umwblogs.org/files/2011/01/success-e1295965999733.png

Once you have your bookmarklet/extension/add-on installed in your browser, using Delicious is as simple as going to a Web site and using the tool in your browser.

http://digsto.umwblogs.org/files/2011/01/chrome.png

The tool will automatically capture the URL of the site and the title -- you can fill in notes/description and tags, as appropriate. Simply click Save, and you'll have a new bookmark in your account.


 * At anytime, you can see all of your bookmarks by going to http://delicious.com/YOURUSERID.
 * You can see all the bookmarks created by you that are tagged "digstoumw" by going to http://delicious.com/YOURUSERID/digstoumw
 * You can see all the bookmarks created by everyone that are tagged "digstoumw" by going to http://www.delicious.com/tag/digstoumw.

This is just the basics to using Delicious. There are lots more features to the service. I suggest checking out the Help Section if you want to learn more!