Does your team send emails that simply include a useful link...use Delicious to eliminate those emails and collaborate better

1. Using Delicious to Decrease Emails

2. When you’re on a team

3. You often share resources with your team

4. And that can be very helpful

5. But…what happens when 30% of your emails are links to great resources?

6. Email clutter

7. Maybe it’s you, who’s doing the sharing

8. Hoping the people on the other end are excited to see your great resource

9. Or maybe…

10. You’re the recipient who is just a little frustrated…

11. to see one more email with just a link

12. Email has become the only tool people use

13. My dad always says…

14. If all you have is a hammer

15. Everything else is a nail

16. Unfortunately, email doesn’t always get that nail into the wood

17. No matter how hard you swing

18. Think about it…

19. With email…

20. Great resources quickly get lost in the clutter

21. Searching for and retrieving information is often painful and stressful

22. The only option for archiving and organizing these types of emails…

23. … is with folders…which can quickly get out of hand

24. Here’s where Delicious comes to save the day

25. Using Delicious, you can create a library of resource links that…

26. Can be accessed anywhere you have an internet connection… 1

27. … by anyone in the world

29. …using a search box

30. … or the handy dandy tags

31. Can include extra notes to provide even more useful information 3

32. Can eliminate the need to email links 4

33. So, how can you make this work for your team…

34. Sign up for an account … 1

35. … using an email address, user name & password that you will share with your team

36. Encourage your team to add browser buttons to quickly and easily save links to the delicious account 2

38. You may want to come up with a standard set of tags to use for your team 4

39. What are tags?

41. Tags are a little bit like keywords, but you choose them yourself and they do not form a hierarchy.

42. Assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like - you can always rename or delete the tags later

43. Tagging is a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders

46. Encourage your team to jump on the Delicious bandwagon and decrease emails

47. Michelle E. Johnson Door 41 Solutions www.door41.com