Understanding Social Bookmarketing and Delicious

Delicious is a social bookmarking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address 1. Create a Delicious Account In order to create a Delicious account, you will need to provide a valid e-mail address, login name and password. 2. Verify an Account An e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address provided when the Delicious account was created. You will need to click the link in the e-mail in order to fully activate the Delicious account. 3. Login Login to the Delicious account in order to begin bookmarking and tagging content. 4. Post URL Enter the URL of a webpage or website that you find to be particularly valuable or useful. 5. Describe & Tag Enter a descriptive page title and description that relates to the contents of the bookmarked webpage. In the final field enter single word keywords that relate to the webpages content, these will be the "tags". Why Use Delicious? Delicious can be used by professionals to share industry resources that are particularly useful. Delicious users store their favorite websites or resources online and other users can easily access bookmarks. Often websurfers will use Delicious to find resources that they consider to be relevant and qualified. Delicious also takes advantage of RSS. RSS feeds can be used to syndicate user bookmarks or to aggregate content with the same tags. Generating RSS feeds allows users to syndicate bookmarks or to aggregate content that contains related tags. Users can also syndicate bookmarks that are created by other users using RSS feeds. Bookmarks Many users generate bookmarks that are all related as in this case of bookmarks all related to RSS: http://del.icio.us/rss/rssfeeds Other user bookmarks don't encompass a single theme as is the case with the following: http://del.icio.us/rss/oreck As publishers struggle to create unique content, they are turning towards web surfers to qualify and categorize content. As a result social-bookmarking is becoming more prevalent as users weigh-in. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for FeedForDev