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fter taking a look at numerous choices, I decided that Delicious would be a good place to start and made it the first social bookmarking site on my list. The main reason is it seems to be the epitome of Social Bookmarking. It truely is a place online where you can house your bookmarks and all you have to do is remember your user name and password and you have access to them anywhere that you have internet access with any hardware that can access it; laptop, smart phone, netbook, etc. I say this because it seems that many of the sites that have been lumped into the social bookmarks really could be considered something else. A good example is Digg, which I will review at a later time. Digg allows you to share sites and articles with friends, but as far as I can tell so far, it does not really help you manage your own personal bookmarks.
So the first thing you will need to do is sign up. Delicious has made this very easy. They have a three step process and before you know it you are off and running.
The first step is to simply enter your information, name and email, then create a user name and a password. The second step is simply to download the toolbar buttons for your browser. These will make it easier to use Delicious while you are surfing the net and running across websites that you want to bookmark. The last step is to upload your bookmarks from Firefox or Favorites from Internet Explorer. This seemed a little complex, but it was not as bad as it sounds. I exported from my Firefox bookmarks and saved them to my computer. Then I clicked on the browse button in the Delicious screen and located the exported bookmarks on my computer. Then I simply clicked on 'Import Now' which is at the bottom of the page. And it was just that easy. Now that your bookmarks are loaded you can get started.
The next thing you will see is an tour that will help you understand your new browser buttons and how they interact with your browser and Delicious. You will also find out that when you use your regular bookmarking function, or favorites, it will ask if you want to sync with Delicious. This allows you to maintain a local copy of all your bookmarks.
Next time we will start to dive into the functionality built into Delicious and try to understand the benefits it provides.
fter taking a look at numerous choices, I decided that Delicious would be a good place to start and made it the first social bookmarking site on my list. The main reason is it seems to be the epitome of Social Bookmarking. It truely is a place online where you can house your bookmarks and all you have to do is remember your user name and password and you have access to them anywhere that you have internet access with any hardware that can access it; laptop, smart phone, netbook, etc. I say this because it seems that many of the sites that have been lumped into the social bookmarks really could be considered something else. A good example is Digg, which I will review at a later time. Digg allows you to share sites and articles with friends, but as far as I can tell so far, it does not really help you manage your own personal bookmarks. So the first thing you will need to do is sign up. Delicious has made this very easy. They have a three step process and before you know it you are off and running.
The first step is to simply enter your information, name and email, then create a user name and a password. The second step is simply to download the toolbar buttons for your browser. These will make it easier to use Delicious while you are surfing the net and running across websites that you want to bookmark. The last step is to upload your bookmarks from Firefox or Favorites from Internet Explorer. This seemed a little complex, but it was not as bad as it sounds. I exported from my Firefox bookmarks and saved them to my computer. Then I clicked on the browse button in the Delicious screen and located the exported bookmarks on my computer. Then I simply clicked on 'Import Now' which is at the bottom of the page. And it was just that easy. Now that your bookmarks are loaded you can get started.The next thing you will see is an tour that will help you understand your new browser buttons and how they interact with your browser and Delicious. You will also find out that when you use your regular bookmarking function, or favorites, it will ask if you want to sync with Delicious. This allows you to maintain a local copy of all your bookmarks.
Next time we will start to dive into the functionality built into Delicious and try to understand the benefits it provides.
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