Now, this was one of the activities that I hoped might help our department. One of my colleagues started doing del.icio.us but seemed to be having some trouble. I'd looked at it before anda thought I might be able to figure it out, so gave it a try.
Getting it set up was easy. I selected a name for our network and a password that we could all use. It was simple to create tags. It isn't so simple to install the del.icio.us bottons on the other computers in what I had hoped would be our nedtwork, but the process seems to defeat me. I can get it done on one computer, but not the next.
But what was most distressing to me was how cumbersome using it was. We have been making "favorite" bookmarks for our desk computers all along, and it was so easy. Click on favorites and the links pop up right there, make a selection and go. But each time you get on your computer, and click on the del.icio.us button, you go to a different webpage, then select another page to which to go. As nice as the idea is, we've just added another step, so I was a bit disappointed. I'll probably just keep using the Favorite book mark button.
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Delia, I gotta tell ya, del.icio.us is one of my favorites. I'm so sorry to hear it didn't reel you in... yet. I was talking to Melissa about this. You're right, more than one click is too many and not a time saver.
I have my browser buttons set up to both take me to my delicious links, and one directly to "add to delicious". The "add" button should automatically insert the URL of the page you were on, and it's title. All you do is add any tags you like (which you can edit later). You can also include notes - sometimes if the site is in danger of going away, I copy and paste the entire text in that box, so I have it for later.
So, hopefully you'll give it another try. If you don't like it, that's fine, but I think it could still be both quick and useful for you and your department.
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