Beginners guide to social bookmarking

I am absolutely loving this little film about social bookmarking, I’ve already got everyone in my team to watch it.  Thanks to Laura for mentioning it http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/social-bookmarking-in-plain-english/ I want to use it everywhere!

http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

 In essence the film tells you:

1. How to get started on del.icio.us
2. How bookmarks are organised using tags
3. How bookmarks are social

(and well done to the Reds for their cracking start to the season on Saturday!)

del.icio.us

My journey into the world of web 2.0 took another step today as I installed a little del.icio.us button into my web browser tool bar.   Annoyingly I had to get someone from our IT dept to help as I didn’t have permission to install it.

http://del.icio.us/ICT_Hub

del.icio.us (and other free social bookmarking sites) allow you to save your favourites/bookmarks on to a website.  Benefits are that if your computer crashes, you move to a new computer or you go on holiday , you know that your favourite free knitting pattern sites (sorry, that’s just me) will still be there and accessible from anywhere.  There’s a wider benefit of these online sites in that people tag each entry with key words to describe the link.  For example, you might tag an article on open source software with – ICT, VCS, FOSS, opensource etc.  Within sites like del.icio.us it’s really easy to pull together links with the same tag, to see what other people are looking at or find new resources.

I’ve started tagging websites relevant to the different events I’m going to be running, so that delegates can refer back to them at a later date.   I hope to capture any websites that speakers refer to in the conferences as well as other useful sites.

Having just had a really productive meeting to talk about a voluntary sector arts / ICT conference, I’ve started tagging links with ICTArtsConf, hopefully this list will start to grow as more discussions are had.