How-to PPT on using bookmarking through delicious for volunteers

1. Becoming a Bookmarking Contributor

2.  You have a account
◦ Proceed to Using the MRN Tag, slide #11.
 You have a Log-in but not a account
◦ Your Yahoo! Log-on also accesses Delicious; proceed to Getting
Started with Delicious, slide #5.
 You don’t have either or Log-in
◦ You can do both easily! Proceed to Getting Started with Delicious,
slide #5.
 I just want to share resources!
◦ That’s cool! Proceed to Sharing Items, slide #12.

3.  Delicious is under Yahoo!’s wing and so uses the Yahoo! ID and log-
in. If you already have a Delicious account, just sign in using it.
 If you have a Yahoo! Id – you’re ready to go. Just go to
https://secure.delicious.com/register to open a Delicious account.
 No Yahoo! Id? Then you’ll start by registering there
https://edit.yahoo.com/registration
 If you’re not interested in either, that’s okay … but still share your
resources!

4.  Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it
from any computer
◦ Better than traditional bookmarking because you can
access from any computer
 Tag each bookmark using key words and add
comments which helps you search and retrieve your
bookmarks easily
 Share your bookmarks and get bookmarks in return
◦ Great tool for sharing resources as you work on joint
projects for work or personal use
 Research tool to find interesting articles and items;
search using Delicious tags
◦ Use the Subscriptions and Network features to keep track
of the Delicious tags and users you find most interesting.

5.  Go to http://delicious.com
 Select Join Now to go to the Sign-in page.
If you have a Yahoo! ID, sign in
If you don’t have a Yahoo! ID,
then sign up for one …
this button takes to the
Sign-Up Page.

6. Set options
Choose a
user name …
For e.g., MRN’s is
marylandrecyclers

7. Add widgets to your
browser* to make it
easy to save and
search bookmarks.
This is optional!
Delicious walks you
through the process!
* Works with most
browsers, e.g. Firefox,
IE. For IE 8, check out
the Add-ons for
Delicious Bookmarks
Add-On

8. Great way to get
started … explore here.
Learn by doing! Click
here to save your first
bookmark!

9. If you’ve added buttons to your browser, you
can click the "Tag" or "Bookmark this on
Delicious" button to save a new bookmark.
Or in Delicious, you can select
the “save a new bookmark”
button
This screen will pop-up;
paste the URL for the
item you want to
bookmark

10. Regardless of the buttons you've chosen, you'll see this screen.
URL: Address of the page
you're bookmarking.
Title: If you're using browser
tools, this will be prefilled
with the title of the page
you're saving. Feel free to
edit this in any way that
makes sense to you.
Notes: Write additional info
for yourself or to let others
know why you bookmarked
this page.
Tags: Enter one or more tags separated by spaces. Use MRN tag to share items
to for the MRN feed; add others as they make sense to you. For more on tags,
read our tags section.
Send: Use this option to send the bookmark as you create to specific people.
Be sure hit SAVE!

11. When you save a bookmark
that you want to share with
MRN, simply add the tag
mdrecycle.
We have an RSS feed on the
MRN tag which will collect
your tagged bookmarks!

12. If you find a website, article, blog post or other item on the web that you think members
should be aware of via our news feed, follow these steps:
(1) Copy the URL for the webpage using your copy & paste function.
(2) Paste the URL into a email to info@marylandrecyclingnetwork.org.
(3) In your email message, include a brief description of the item and why it
should be added to the news feed or knowledge center.
(4) Send.