Comments on: Web.a.licio.us http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/webalicious/ Technology Convergence Education Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:23:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Saasu - Simplify Life. Today. » del.icio.us for business http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/webalicious/#comment-10 Saasu - Simplify Life. Today. » del.icio.us for business Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:23:53 +0000 http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/webalicious/#comment-10 [...] friend Kris wrote the other day about how educators (teachers and trainers) might use the "social bookmarking" service, [...] [...] friend Kris wrote the other day about how educators (teachers and trainers) might use the “social bookmarking” service, [...]

]]> By: Judy O'Connell http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/webalicious/#comment-7 Judy O'Connell Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:05:56 +0000 http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/webalicious/#comment-7 Very glad you finally jumped on board. The power of networking this way, with educators around the corner or around the world is really cool! very powerful! and nice and efficient. Good to catch up with you at ITSC'06. By the way, I am disappointed how 'un-interactive- this conference is - the others I've been too have had live blogging, shared tags, flickr images etc. I blogged how boring my first day was, but today is better. Cheers, Judy Very glad you finally jumped on board. The power of networking this way, with educators around the corner or around the world is really cool! very powerful! and nice and efficient. Good to catch up with you at ITSC’06. By the way, I am disappointed how ‘un-interactive- this conference is – the others I’ve been too have had live blogging, shared tags, flickr images etc. I blogged how boring my first day was, but today is better. Cheers, Judy

]]> By: oneapplica » del.icio.us for business http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/webalicious/#comment-6 oneapplica » del.icio.us for business Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:10:45 +0000 http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/webalicious/#comment-6 [...] My friend Kris wrote the other day about how educators (teachers and trainers) might use the “social bookmarking” service, del.icio.us. Reading his post made me think that perhaps it might be worth looking at how a business could use such a tool. [...] [...] My friend Kris wrote the other day about how educators (teachers and trainers) might use the “social bookmarking” service, del.icio.us. Reading his post made me think that perhaps it might be worth looking at how a business could use such a tool. [...]

]]> By: netapplica » Blog Archives » del.icio.us for business http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/webalicious/#comment-5 netapplica » Blog Archives » del.icio.us for business Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:13:14 +0000 http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/webalicious/#comment-5 [...] My friend Kris wrote the other day about how educators (teachers and trainers) might use the “social bookmarking” service, del.icio.us. Reading his post made me think that perhaps it might be worth looking at how a business could use such a tool. [...] [...] My friend Kris wrote the other day about how educators (teachers and trainers) might use the “social bookmarking” service, del.icio.us. Reading his post made me think that perhaps it might be worth looking at how a business could use such a tool. [...]

]]> By: jmw116 http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/webalicious/#comment-4 jmw116 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:37:23 +0000 http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/webalicious/#comment-4 Very interesting and very helpful. Cheers jen Very interesting and very helpful.
Cheers jen

]]> By: Grant http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/webalicious/#comment-3 Grant Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:40:54 +0000 http://skirtingboard.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/webalicious/#comment-3 You can also use the "for:" mechanism to send links to a specific user. If you find a site, bookmark it, and then tag it with "for:username" where "username" is the name of the account you want to send the item to. e.g. if I wanted to send you a link, I could tag it "for:skirtingboard" and it would appear in the "links for you" section (which appears at the top of the screen when you sign in). This works great if you want to send a link to an individual del.icio.us user, but you can also use del.icio.us to share between multiple people, even if they're not a del.icio.us user. You can do this by suggesting a tag that people use to share information. For example, at WWF we use a tag ("<a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/wwfwebbies" rel="nofollow">wwfwebbies</a>") to share information amongst the web teams internationally. The Web Essentials conference suggested "<a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/wwfwebbies" rel="nofollow">we05</a>" for attendees to the conference to share links. The downside of this second approach is anything tagged that way will appear under the tag, so you can't "moderate" the content of the tag, and someone might choose to hijack your tag, or if your tag is not unique enough, you may get a lot of unwanted links. I'll let you expand on practical application of these techniques in the education context :) You can also use the “for:” mechanism to send links to a specific user. If you find a site, bookmark it, and then tag it with “for:username” where “username” is the name of the account you want to send the item to.

e.g. if I wanted to send you a link, I could tag it “for:skirtingboard” and it would appear in the “links for you” section (which appears at the top of the screen when you sign in).

This works great if you want to send a link to an individual del.icio.us user, but you can also use del.icio.us to share between multiple people, even if they’re not a del.icio.us user.

You can do this by suggesting a tag that people use to share information. For example, at WWF we use a tag (“wwfwebbies“) to share information amongst the web teams internationally.

The Web Essentials conference suggested “we05” for attendees to the conference to share links.

The downside of this second approach is anything tagged that way will appear under the tag, so you can’t “moderate” the content of the tag, and someone might choose to hijack your tag, or if your tag is not unique enough, you may get a lot of unwanted links.

I’ll let you expand on practical application of these techniques in the education context :)

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