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=Thing 13 (Week 6): Social Bookmarking with Delicious and Diigo=

Introduction
[|Delicious] and [|Diigo] are popular [|social bookmarking] sites (of which there are [|dozens]) that allow Internet users to store all of their saved websites (a.k.a. "favorites" or "bookmarks") online, so that they are accessible from any Internet-enabled computer. Users can organize their sites using **tags** (user-defined keywords), and descriptions. The "social" aspect comes from the fact that users' bookmarks and tags are **publicly browsable and searchable**. Users can also subscribe to others' bookmark collections or to specific tags to create a personal resource network. Delicious **tags** are an example of a **folksonomy**, or user-created organizational structure (you may recall we learned a bit about tagging and folksonomies in Thing 11, Flickr).

Here's **Social Bookmarking in Plain English** (3:24)- emphasis on Delicious
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**Diigo Tutorial (4:48)**
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But why put your bookmarks online? What's the advantage? That's easy to answer using the following questions:
 * Have you ever needed a website at home or at work and it wasn't saved on the "right" computer?
 * Have you ever had to send yourself links to sites, especially a group of links?
 * Have you ever went back to find a link you saved and couldn't locate it?
 * Have you ever needed to supply your students with a list of links and didn't have a way of providing them easily online?

If you answered one of these with a yes, then social bookmarking is a great way of taking care of that problem.

**Features of social bookmarking**

 * Import all your existing bookmarks (a.k.a favorites) from your browser with a few clicks.
 * Access (and add to) your bookmarks from any computer! Never lose another link, email links to yourself, or paste into a document for sharing access.
 * Discover great resources saved by millions of users with a keyword search, or by browsing specific tags or individual user collections. Try searching Delicious or Diigo as an alternative to Google when looking for resources for a particular topic.
 * Mark any bookmark as private when you save it. (Only YOU will see these sites when you are logged in).
 * Let others do the work for you! (Wisdom of Crowds)
 * Easily share and collect bookmarks with others!

**SHARING**

 * Share all your bookmarks with students or colleagues by giving them a single URL for your Delicious or Diigo username (e.g.[| http://delicious.com/mmiller112] ).
 * Share sites for a specific tag (i.e topic) by providing the link for that tag only.
 * Subscribe to the RSS feed of a specific user, tag or user/tag combination in your RSS reader, or display the feed results on a blog, wiki or other webpage to share with students or colleagues.
 * Create a special "shared" tag to collect resources along with others for a particular purpose or topic, for example "[|D112Learning20]." If you want to share a site with our group, use 'D112Learning20' as a tag along with your other chosen tags. (Here is what the RSS feed for the D112Learning20 tag looks like, embedded in a wiki page) . Imagine how you could leverage this capability for student research, sharing sites with colleagues, or for the school library!
 * Create a specific list of bookmarks for students to use in their research, for colleagues, or as a means of organizing your own bookmarks into topics. These lists are easy to share as each has its own unique URL. Here is one example :Internet Safety and Cyber Bullying

**A Few "High Profile" Social Bookmarking Users** (Not a Representative Sample)


 * User || Diigo || Delicious ||
 * Will Richardson ||  || [] ||
 * David Warlick ||  || [] ||
 * Vicki Davis || @http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher || [] ||
 * David Jakes ||  || [] ||
 * Wesley Fryer || @http://www.diigo.com/user/wfryer || [] ||
 * Alan Levine ||  || [] ||
 * Lucy Gray || [] ||  ||
 * Chris Betcher ||  @http://www.diigo.com/user/betchaboy ||  ||
 * Jennifer Dorman || @http://www.diigo.com/user/cliotech ||  ||
 * Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach ||  || [] ||

__**Five ways of "looking at bookmarks" in Delicious and Diigo:**__
||= (all sites saved by **user** 'cobannon') ||
 * =  || **Delicious Link** ||= **Diigo Link** ||= **Explanation** ||
 * = **by User** || [] ||= @http://www.diigo.com/user/cobannon
 * = **by Tag** || [] ||= @http://diigo.com/tag/web2.0

||= (all sites tagged 'web2.0' by **all users**) || ||= (a "Tag Intersection" combines **two or more tags** to refine/narrow a search. This link displays all sites tagged with **both** 'web2.0' and 'podcast' by **all users**). ||
 * = **by Tag Intersection** ||  [] ||= @http://diigo.com/tag/web2.0+podcast
 * = **by User/Tag combination** ||  [] ||= http://diigo.com/user/mmiller112/web2.0

||= (all of 'mmiller112' sites tagged 'web2.0') ||
 * = **by User/Tag Intersection** ||  [|http://delicious.com/mmiller112/web2.0+podcast] ||= <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://www.diigo.com/user/mmiller112/web2.0 +podcast

||= <span class="wiki_link_ext">(all of 'mmiller112' sites tagged with **both** 'web2.0' and 'professionaldevelopment' <span class="wiki_link_ext">) Diigo ||

Discovery Exercise
> **HELP PAGE:** Here is a sample delicious results page for a search using the keyword "Storytelling."
 * PART 1: Explore Delicious and Diigo** (~spend at least 20 minutes on each)
 * 1) Go to [|delicious].
 * 2) **Search** for something that interests you. (You can do this more than once). Enter **one or more keywords** in the **search box** at the top of the page.
 * 3) **Review the results** and **begin browsing**. ** Things to notice: ** **additional tags** used for each site, number of **other people** who have tagged the site (numbers in blue boxes), **usernames** of those who have tagged the sites (click any username to see all sites saved by that user).
 * 1) **Explore the result s ** of your search by following some of the "delicious" information -- click a **related tag**, a **username**, a blue "**saved by X other people**" box. **HINT:** To actually **visit** a "discovered" site, try **right-clicking** the link and selecting "open in new tab" or "open in new window". That way, you won't lose your delicious results.
 * 2) When viewing a particular **user**'s saved sites, explore his or her **tag list**, **top 10 tags** and **tag bundles** on the right side of the page. Use **Related Tags** to narrow your search results. Use **Tag Options** to switch between **cloud** and **list** views, and **alpha** and **count** order.
 * 3) Basically, **search and browse** around, and see what you can figure out about **how delicious works and how it may be helpful to you**.
 * 4) Repeat steps 2-6 after going to Diigo.com


 * ‡ HELP Page: ** Anatomy of a Delicious Page
 * ‡ HELP Page: ** <span class="wiki_link_ext"> [|Anatomy of a Diigo Page]

Sign up for a Delicious and Diigo account.
 * PART 2: Sign up for Delicious and Diigo** (~15 min)


 * ‡ HELP Page: ** Registering for Delicious
 * ‡ HELP Page: ** [|Registering for Diigo]

Task 1- Delicious

 * PART 1: Log into your delicious account and practice adding and tagging 15-20 sites.** Give some thought to your choices of tags -- think about all the different ways you would categorize the site -- remember that each tag is a SINGLE KEYWORD and you must leave a space between each tag. Don't be afraid to use several tags, they don't cost anything. Also give some thought to the **Descriptions** (site titles -- the "link" you will click) and **Notes** (site descriptions). Click the "**Delicious**" button (checkerboard) on your browser toolbar to go to your account and check out the results of your tagging spree.
 * ‡ HELP Video: ** <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Adding & Tagging Sites in Delicious] (3 Ways)

** ‡ HELP Instructions: ** **Steps for Tagging a Site in Delicious** (for video haters and impatient folks): >  >  >   ** ‡ HELP TIP: **   Try highlighting a bit of text on a page **before** clicking the TAG button. The highlighted text will be added automatically to the description field when you save the bookmark to delicious! **PART 2: Add the 'shared' tag "D112learning20**" to a FIVE sites that you would like to share with our group. Check out the wiki page to see what happens after you tag a site using D112learning20. (It may take a few minutes to appear). **PART 3:** **Advanced Tagging:** > >
 * 1) Go to [|delicious] and **log into your account**.
 * 1)  Go to a **web site of interest** (either perform a search, or select a familiar site).
 * 1)  While viewing the site, click the **TAG button** on your browser toolbar. Fill in the **notes** and **tags** fields, and edit the **title** as desired. (If other users have tagged the site, tag suggestions will be provided and you can just click them. After awhile, your own tags will be suggested as well). Remember to separate each tag with a space . Also keep in mind that (to a point) "over" tagging is better than "under" tagging -- more tags are better than fewer.
 * 1)  Click **Save**. Repeat for several sites.
 * Add a **subscription**. Find a **tag** that interests you and subscribe to it (click **Subscriptions > Add a Subscription**). You can refine/narrow a subscription by using a **Tag Intersection** (multiple tags joined by + e.g. poetry+shakespeare)
 * Add someone to **your network**. You can add me, a colleague, anyone you wish. (Click **Network** > **Add a user to Network**). WA Middle School teachers almost all belong to each others' Delicious networks. It's a great way to pool resources and share with each other.
 * Create a **Tag Bundle** (click **Tag Options > Manage tag bundles**) to organize your tags. Bundles are really helpful for keeping your bookmarks in good order. This is most meaningful when you have a lot of sites.

Task 2- Diigo
__**‡ HELP Page:**__<span class="wiki_link"> Diigo Resources

**PART 1:**

 * Log into your Diigo account and practice adding and tagging 7-10 sites.** Give some thought to your choices of tags -- think about all the different ways you would categorize the site -- remember that each tag is a SINGLE KEYWORD and you must leave a space between each tag unless you choose to use quote marks to join tags. Don't be afraid to use several tags, they don't cost anything.

**PART 2:**

**Make Friends!!** First of all, find me (mmiller112) on Diigo and request to be my friend. Find at least 3 others in the class (use the emails in the spreadsheet) and friend them. You have an instructional video below to help you out.

NOTE Diigo has recently gone through a big face lift, which means that the videos and screenshots will be different from the actual site. Friending has now changed to a 1-to-1 method where you simply "Follow" someone instead of needing to send a friendship request and have it accepted. Searching for people should have remained the same, so watch the first video on how to search, but the 2nd video is designed for Diigo v.4.0 on how to "friend" or "follow" people.


 * Help Video**: [|Searching for friends and accepting friend requests] (old version)
 * NEW** **Help Video:** [|"Friending" People (new version)]


 * PART 4:** Write a **blog post** sharing your thoughts about social bookmarking and what you learned/noticed in your exploration and initial tagging experiences. Include any **ideas you have for using social bookmarking in your professional practice** (for yourself, with colleagues, and/or with students). Include a link to **your delicious and diigo links** in the post <span class="wiki_link_ext">([]) . Lastly, give a brief overview of which site you liked better and why you would recommend it to colleagues over the other.  Please include "Thing 13" in the post title.

Stretch Task

 * When you are feeling **brave**, import your existing bookmarks into delicious (log into your account, click settings, then import/upload). Depending on the amount of bookmarks you have, this may be a winter break project for you, but it was well worth it.
 * Try Google Bookmarks.