I have started to use My Delicious as a ‘favourites’ storage point because I can access it universally. I have a computer at work in my office, I often do research in computing labs with my students and I have two computers at home so I want all the web sites I am using to be accessible.
I also have access to the Delicious sites of some colleagues. I subscribe to various online journals and materials, and when these come through on my email, I can scan them and book mark those I may not need now, but that look useful for work I may cover. As I book mark them, instead of putting them into folders where they can be lost for days, I tag them with keywords reflecting their content. The beauty of this is that you can use multiple keywords to find them. They are then tucked away for reference without my having to trawl back through my emails to find them – a hit or miss system I have used in the past. Nor do I have the frustration of knowing the site I want is booked at home and having to go through the rigmarole involved in connecting to it and then finding it buried in a folder.You can access the delicious site at http://delicious.com/and I see that you can also make it an add on in Firefox, which I haven’t investigated but which might be useful.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615You are all welcome to visit my delicious site and have a look at how it works. I have not organised the folders particularly tidily yet – that will happen as I am using it. My address is http://delicious.com/JillDD Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday – to learn more about this world of helpful tools!Jill
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This is really helpful, Jill. Thanks so much for all of this. I will try to do just what you say.
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