In addition to having a most excellent name, Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that lets you save bookmarks to a central location (no more copying them to multiple browsers on multiple computers) and classify them all with tags.
How is that social? Well, in addition to tagging your bookmarks, you get to see how other users have tagged the same links and see related websites are important to them. This is an excellent way to find websites that may be of interest to you. Del.icio.us even offers RSS feeds - you can create a shared bookmark site (say, for your branch reference staff) and receive news every time a new link is added (say, when one of your colleagues adds a new link). Give us twelve minutes. We are going to cede to stage to Kathleen Gilroy who has posted an excellent video podcast on the subject – she’ll show you everything you’d want to know about Del.icio.us in just 12 minutes. Here’s the podcast link – it’ll open in a separate window. You’ll need to be on a computer with speakers or a headset. If you are on a computer without audio capabilities? Take a look at Us.ef.ul: A beginners guide to Del.icio.us. Discovery Exercise
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