Thing 6: Tagging

This day's task was to investigate a social bookmarking site, namely Delicious, and report back.

The theory behind social bookmarking sites is great. You become a member (for free), set up browser tabs that will allow you to access and search Delicious, and then set up your favorites. The account user establishes tags that are of interest to him--in my case I set up tags for school libraries, restaurants, and recipes. Then the user may search for these topics among Delicious members' top websites and add to their tag or copy and paste a preferred web-link to their tag.

The advantage to social bookmarking is that the best websites suited to your interests are in your Delicious. It becomes your new search engine. The next time I go on line for recipes, my go to is Delicious instead of any other search engine. Why? Because the first results I get are top-rated by users and afficinados rather than advertisment ratings or other criteria.  

Note: Delicious has altered its format from the tutorial videos. Best not to view the videos and just jump into joining and starting to bookmark and tag your favorite sites. Delicious will send you an e-mail once you've joined that takes you through the steps of setting up and managing your account.