There’s a new way that doesn’t use a browser. It uses a website. This is called a social bookmarking site. And the one we’ll use today is called Delicious. It makes bookmarking more useful and fun. We’ll focus on three things. How to get started with bookmarking? How bookmarks are organized by tags? And why this kind of bookmarking is social?

 

First, go to delicious.com to sign up for a free account. While you’re signing up, you’ll see an easy way to add a couple of buttons to your browser. These are important. The Tag button is how you’ll add new bookmarks to the website. On any website, you can click “Tag” to save that site as a delicious bookmark. Easy! 

 

Consider this example. You are a teacher who often uses the web to find math lessons for eighth graders. You’re overwhelmed by all the sites. There are just too many to remember. Using delicious, remembering sites is as easy as tagging them. Here’s one, uh, nice, perfect. 

 

Here’s what happens when you tag a site. A new window opens and asks for more information. You can add keywords or tags that describe the site. These will help you find bookmarks later. You might tag this site “algebra”, “bestof”, “tutorial”, “math” and “homework”, then click “save” to save it on the delicious website. When you save a page like this, two things happen. First, the site is saved with all your other bookmarks on delicious.com. Second, the tags are saved in a list of all your tags. You just repeat this process for every site you want to save. This is bookmarking.