Using Delicious

Do you work with multiple Internet browsers (eg. Firefox and Internet Explorer)? Do you have trouble synchronizing your bookmarks between multiple computers? Are you tired of making sure your bookmarks are backed up when you get a new computer? Don't you wish you could get to your bookmarks when you were on someone else's computer?

Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows you to place your bookmarks on the Web and access them from any Web browser. You can even share them with others. (Click here for a CommonCraft video related to this content.)

Here's how to use Delicious:

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Step 1: Join Delicious

1. Go to http://delicious.com/
2. Click the Join Now link.
3. Sign In with your Yahoo! ID. (If you don't already have a Yahoo! ID, click Sign up for Yahoo! and create one.)
4. You may be asked to provide security questions.
5. You will also be asked to create a link for your Delicious account (eg. http://delicious.com/username). This will become the URL you use to access your bookmarks.
   
   
   1. Select from one of the suggested links, or choose your own and click the Check button to verify that this link is still available.
   2. Click Save once you have selected a link.
   
   
   
6. Click the Add a Bookmarklet button. You will be taken to a page that provides you with instructions on how to add a Bookmarklet button to your browser.
7. Follow the instructions on the page to add the Bookmarklet tool to your browser.

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Step 2: Bookmark Sites Using Delicious

1. Navigate to a Website of interest
2. Click on the Bookmarklet button (should read "Bookmark on Delicious") that you added to your browser. A Save Bookmark on Delicious popup window will appear.
3. You may edit any of the following:
   
   
   • URL (prefilled for you with the link to the page)
   • Title (prefilled for you with the title of the page)
   • Notes (optional description you can add)
   • Tags (keywords you can add, great for sorting many bookmarks--highly recommended)
   • Mark as private (by default, unchecked--visible to anyone who finds your Delicious URL unless you check this box)
   
   
   
4. Click Save when finished. The window will close.
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Step 3: Accessing Your Delicious Bookmarks

1. Go to your Delicious bookmarks using your Delicious account link (eg. http://delicious.com/username) or via a My Delicious button/link from your browser.
2. By default bookmarks are sorted by most recent.
3. You can also find your bookmarks by clicking on your tags in the right-hand column.
4. You can also find bookmarks from other people.
   
   
   1. Ask if your colleagues are on Delicious and add them to your Network.
      
      
      1. Click the People dropdown menu at the top of the page.
      2. Click Go to a User.
      3. Enter the username. The user's bookmarks are displayed.
      4. Click Add to my Network. From now on, this person's bookmarks can be accessed when clicking on the Network link.
      
      
      
   2. Click on links such labeled Popular, Related or Recent while browsing your bookmarks.
   3. If you like the the link, consider clicking the following.
      
      
      1. Save a new bookmark (to add the link to your bookmarks).
      2. Add to my Network (to add the person who bookmarked this link to your list of contacts).
      
      
      
   
   
   
5. Share your Delicious account link (eg. http://delicious.com/username) with others!

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