Social_Bookmarking

= Thing 5: Social Bookmarking: How Do We Organize the Useful Sites? =

We all know there is a lot of useful information out there, and we need a way to keep track of it all. Many of us have been in a situation where we came up with a perfect combination of key words to use in a search engine and we found a great site we knew we could use again only to forget the name of the site. On top of that is when we also forgot the key words we used to find the site in the first place! It can be frustrating.

We can use our Favorites folder to save sites, but that can get a bit overwhelmed as we continue to add useful sites. It also becomes confusing to find those sites again.

Check out the following video, "Social Bookmarking in Plain English." Click Here if you have trouble seeing the video below. It might work directly from the Common Craft site.

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That is why we will now create a Delicious account, so we can save our favorite sites on the Internet and access them from any computer that has Internet access. We will also be able to share sites with one another by friending each other. Click Here to create your account.

If you would like extra assistance Click Here for my step-by-step instructions for creating a delicious account. Include a link to your Delicious account in your blog. This will give us the chance to friend each other, and share these sites. = New development discovered just this week (Today's October 28th for me.): = = =  Delicious, a site I have been using for many years now, has merged with Yahoo. That means that if you are on a computer at a school site you probably will be unable to register, or use it from your computer at school. I encourage you to still check it out in your own time. Now, to save website addresses when you're exploring at a school site you will need to do this through a different program. I did not realize this had occurred until my Delicious account asked me if I would like to merge my Yahoo-Delicious sign-in on my home computer. The next day, while I was at school, I tried to sign into Delicious account only to find myself blocked.

I suggest using PortaPortal.com. You will not be able to automatically share the sites you saved with others like delicious allows you to, but you can save them in a similar fashion to saving websites in a favorites folder. The reason this is a far better organizational tool is that you can access it through the Internet, and not from one computer's favorite's folder. You can also create as many folders as you like to organize the sites more than just as 'Favorites.'

= A Briefing of Thing Five: =

When you have finished Thing five you should have:
 * Created a Delicious account and began bookmarking
 * Next: Create a link to your Delicious Account when you write your blog post.
 * Bonus Points for adding somebody to your network.

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