The new technologies section looks at the technical side of setting up a del.icio.us account. Once you’re up and running with it, the simplicity and power of the tool should make you aware of its potential in several different roles.
One of those is in the CPD sphere. Here is just one simple example of how you could use del.icio.us to keep up with events in the school library world.
Using the del.icio.us guide (see tip #5), set up an account.
Remember to take a note of your login details and the address of your webpage, for your own reference.
If you install the del.icio.us toolbar buttons, adding bookmarks and tags is simply a matter of clicking on the ‘tag’ button, and choosing appropriate tags, and/or making up your own. It’s that simple to create.
There is, however, a lot more to del.icio.us than that. You can view other people’s pages who have bookmarked topics or pages similar to your own. You can join networks. You can do a straight search of other people’s bookmarks and explore accordingly. It truly is ‘social bookmarking’.
It’s also quite addictive! There’s a quick example of a roving ‘CDP’ page here: http://del.icio.us/librarycpd
Filed under: bookmarks, cpd, personal cpd, social bookmarking | Tagged: bookmarking, cpd, deli.cio.us, new technologies, social bookmarking, web 2.0
