Dealing with
Delicious
After registering and a brief struggle of setting up the
Delicious save button on my browser, I was set. I saved a few websites of
interest. But what next? There wasn’t a help button or an instructional video
that I could find easily. The help button was at the bottom of the page
and the information wasn’t very comprehensive.
After experimenting for a while I found I could import my
links from Facebook. Most of these links were rubbish and I didn’t want to keep
them so I learnt how to delete them with the edit icon in the top right hand
side of each box.
Tagging wasn’t intuitive. The important ingredient is to use
the “Enter” button before pressing “save”. Multiple tagging and then using the
“bundle” option in the side bar were obvious next steps.
Connecting with others was a nightmare. Putting people’s
names into the search bar revealed nothing. I had to put the complete URL in.
This makes searching for like-minded colleagues problematic. The help button
says:
·
When you come across a user on Delicious who's
collecting great stuff, click on their profile pic or user name to go to their
profile page. Then, click the green "Follow" button.
Well, excuse my ignorance, but just how do we come across
other users when I can’t find them through the search bar? How do I know when I
save a site on ‘discus throwing’ that there are other people collecting the
same thing? No red light flashes. To me it seems that I am bookmarking in a
vacuum. I see the value of Delicious in keeping favourite sites but the
connectivity with others eludes me.
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