#7 Tagging, folksonomies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

Thanks to the Dozen Ways to Two-Step training, I have discovered a wonderful tool called Delicious. It is a social bookmarking site that allows us to collect, tag, and access our favorite Web sites and blogs from any online computer. We can also share our favorites with our peers.

We swim in a huge ocean of information, and librarians' jobs are evolving from organizers and keepers of quality print information (and the DD treasure code) to finders and organizers and disseminators of quality electronic/virtual/online information. The Delicious tool is one more way that we can avoid reinventing the wheel by sharing good information with each other. No one individually has the time to wade through millions of Web sites and blogs, but collectively we can glean the best information out there. Wonderful idea!

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