There are many web services for saving, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. del.icio.us is one of the most popular and is the one the workshop session will concentrate on.

del.icio.us uses tagging to allow users to “tag” bookmarks with non-hierarchical keyword tags. Bookmarks can be public or private.

For more information about tagging, see the notes from the Social Tagging Workshop session.

del.icio.us is not just a service for saving bookmarks, it can also be used to discover websites, share collections of websites, feed lists of links into another website (like we have done below), and many other uses.

1. Find some websites save them to del.icio.us (click post link), enter a title for the page and some tags that describe it.
2. Install del.icio.us browser buttons to make saving/tagging super easy and give it a try
3. Find someone to save to your network (I'm 6foot1 if you want to add me). Go to user's main page and click add user to your network. After you've added them to your network, you can recommend links to them by just tagging any website with "for:username".
4. You can get a list of recent web pages tagged with a specific tag by setting up subscriptions - click subscriptions > edit
5. Bundle tags into one or more groups to create a more detailed organization - click settings > bundle tags

1. Generate a linkroll, tagroll, & network badge. These can easily be embedded into a web page (see below for examples)
2. If you use an RSS feed reader, you can be notified anytime one of your favorite users adds a new bookmark or when anyone bookmarks something using a specific tag (to cut down on repeats, use the "popular" tag feature http://del.icio.us/popular/library2.0). Look for this icon (or other's that say RSS, XML, Feed, etc.) that will sometimes appear on a page or in the URL address bar of some browsers. It indicates that you can get to the feed by clicking on it. See the Blog/RSS workshop notes for more information.