del.icio.us

I have been procrastinating yet again by failing to post to my blog. I have accomplished viewing/reading all of the suggested materials concerning del.icio.us. and now feel that I understand how it works. I have signed up for a del.icio.us account. Its strength, it seems, lies in the fact that one can share bookmarks with the world from any online computer. You can add new websites to your collection by clicking on the bookmarklet on your Web browser.del.icio.us .A window opens allowing you to add notes about the website as well as to assign keywords known as ‘tags’. I have read often that descriptive meaningful notes are the key to the bookmark. The ‘tags’ are words of your own choosing. You can assign as many as you like. If you are sharing your websites with other users of similar interest then you would ‘tag’ the shared Websites with words that have meaning to that group. This is known as Folksonomy – a shared vocabulary. An excellent example of this was accomplished by librarians for our library home page. All of our “How do I’s” e.g. ‘Using EndNote’, ‘Sign up for a Library classes’, etc. were copied and pasted into del.icio.us and assigned tags. 107 tags were used. These tags can be viewed as a list or as a ‘cloud’. Within the cloud the importance of the tag is shown with font size or colour and usually the tag is hyperlinked leading to other collections associated with the tag.

I intend to bookmark and tag Evidence- based websites to share with nurse educators and Clinical Nurse Specialists, a group I work with a lot.