Comments on: Why I love social bookmarking

By: How to get started in social media at Helpful Technology

How to get started in social media at Helpful Technology — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:29:43 +0000

[...] 5. Start bookmarking and tagging. For a start, saving interesting sites you come across using a service like Delicious, Digg or Stumbleupon will help to find them easily again. But there are lots more reasons why it’s a good idea. [...]

By: The Elevator Pitch: No1 - Steph Gray « Local Democracy

The Elevator Pitch: No1 - Steph Gray « Local Democracy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:34:18 +0000

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By: digitalgovuk: Tracking social media innovation in government at Helpful Technology

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:08:36 +0000

[...] is primarily a Delicious.com tag. I’ve mentioned before why I think social bookmarking tools like Delicious are so useful. In this case, Delicious makes it possible to run a sort of collaborative database of URLs and [...]

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:49:34 +0000

Harp on, sir.

Inspired by your comment, I logged into my FriendFeed for the first time in ages and found quite a bit of interesting stuff from my contacts I’d not come across before…

And you’re right about the auto link posting thing: I don’t use it myself, for the same reason.

This is making me think: one day, maybe the people employed to be ‘knowledge managers’ in big organisations might start to use these kinds of tools rather than the humungous, unusable, pointless document management systems they try to get people to use, in order to, um, share knowledge amongst their team?

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:37:48 +0000

Not wishing to harp on, but just discovered Feedburner also offers a tool called Link Splicer. This lets you show your bookmarking activity in your feedburner feed/email alerts without posting them to your blog. Another interesting option.

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:23:03 +0000

A neat summary. I am fairly new to using Delicious and this is exactly how I use it too.

In addition:

- I have subscribed to a few tags within delicious to see what others are bookmarking – say for government2.0 and socialmedia and webtools

- I have added the RSS for those subscriptions to my google reader

- To have a quick look at what others (Steph and Dave included) are bookmarking I follow their delicious postings using friendfeed, by adding the friendfeed RSS to my google reader

I am not a fan of the daily blog posting from delicious though, for these reasons:

1. The formatting of post titles is terrible. A headline in square brackets with a lower case letter at the start? Noooo thanks. Delicious makes your blog ugly, the title should be customisable.

2. The frequency of postings. It’s daily or nothing. I don’t bookmark enough per day to warrant this high volume. And I don’t want it to swamp my blog either. A weekly or monthly option would be so much better.

I have plumped for the sidebar widget instead, as I notice you have too. I agree that people like Dom use it well though. Actively bookmarking as a way of blogging.

By: Steve Dale online » links for 2008-08-21

Steve Dale online » links for 2008-08-21 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:01:02 +0000

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By: Dave Briggs

Dave Briggs — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:59:20 +0000

Great stuff, Steph! Will be pointing a lot of people in the direction of this post!