Using Delicious for bookmarking

Many of you have taken my advice and joined Delicious, a social bookmarking site. (The title of this article is linked to the Delicious site, or you can find it in the Quick Links list.)

This Web 2.0 tool allows you to save, tag (categorize), comment on, and share Web sites on one computer and access them from any other computer. To make this easier, Delicious provides a handy-dandy toolbar for Internet Explorer and also for Firefox browsers. These add-ons provide provide a one-step process for adding bookmarks to your list.

However, I was recently asked for information on how to bookmark a site on Delicious if you were not at your home computer or the Delicious toolbar was missing. It's really quite easy!

First, log-in to your Delicious account. On the right, look for a small blue box. There will be a link that reads, "Save a New Bookmark." Clicking that link will bring up the familiar bookmarking dialog box that allows you to add this site to your personal or shared bookmark list.
I encourage you to use tags to categorize why you bookmarked each site. If you do, then you can return to Delicious later and do a search for all of your bookmarks with a particular tag, which is much easier than searching through hundreds of bookmarks.

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