After playing around with Delicious for a couple of days, I've come to the conclusion that I'm not a big fan. I find the site itself quite unattractive, and the constant ads very annoying. The name itself is a bit of a turn-off as well! I found a list, by social media examiner, which has good examples of how to use Delicious to its best capabilities. Number three, company sharing, seems to be a great way to use Delicious, but at the moment it's not something that I need because I'm not working in a company that needs to do that. I do like being able to see other people's lists, however. Here's a good one that belongs to a librarian at RMIT: https://delicious.com/infomanlibrarian. There are lots of interesting websites bookmarked here.
There are lots of other bookmarking sites around, I like the google one for it's simplicity, and diigo seems very good as well. There's a video that diigo made to show how it can be used, I've embedded it here:
I like the highlighting and sticky note features of this site, I think that it would be very helpful for study.
A problem that has come up lately for me has been the sheer amount of passwords I've had to create for all of these sites that I'm joining. I might have to get a password manager just to keep track of them all! And what should my passwords be? At the moment, I'm making them randomly, choosing numbers and letters in no particular order, but is there a better way? John Oliver had an interview with Edward Snowden about passwords: margaretthatcheris100%sexy is a great one!
After all of our deliberation about Delicious on Twitter over the weekend, I decided to give Diigo a go - I am super impressed by it. I can only see myself using it for personal reasons now - and am currently unemployed so I don't really have any way to connect it to my professional life right now. But I can definitely see how they can be used and how they can benefit collaborative work situations.
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