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del.icio.us

Delicious is a free social bookmarking tool.  Store your bookmarks online, tag them and share them with your colleagues and students.  Easy to use to search for other bookmarked resources.

One of the 25 FREE Tools every learning professional should have in their toolbox

Comments from those who selected delicious as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

• "mainly as a write-only resource, highlighting resources for others" Pat Parslow
• "There are simply too many new and juicy learning resources and tools to reflect and organize effectively on my blog, so instead I am using Delicious to manage and share my learning discoveries. My blog instead focuses on making sense and filtering out the juiciest learning stuff in creative ways. " Zaid Alsagoff
• "Good way to keep up with all the websites and to manage them. Not spectacular and I rarely use the community options but convenient." Marcel de Leeuwe
• deserves a number of its own: I could not be doing the job I am doing without it. I work in different locations so “favourites” would not be enough to organise my essential websites, and tagging makes everything findable (eventually!) Not sure about the new site yet….." Jane Challinor
• "the old version is getting creaky (when's that beta arriving?) but it's still a great way of finding, noting, remembering and (through its RSS feeds) sharing resources"  Ian Usher
• "i travel form work so a accessing my bookmarks from anywhere is crucial - With del.icio.us i can bookmark and keep in the loop with what everybody else is bookmarking." Debora Gallo
• "social bookmarking tool – keep your favorites with you @ all times, regardless of which computer you’re on. Share with others. FREE." Bonni Stachowiak
• "is great for bookmarking links in a way that you can actually find them again and I have not even tried it on a collaborative basis yet." Brian Mulligan
• "This is the easiest tagging program to use! Students can share research with each other and with me!"  Beth Ritter-Guth
• "Great tool to save and share interesting websites and blog posts. I use it to collect sources for presentations, papers, articles and -of course- blog posts."  Wilfred Rubens
• "What more to say about this delightfully delicious tagging application which makes it easy-peasy to save sites, and to collate and share with colleagues. Free"  Kate Foy
• "I use Delicious to keep track of much of the information I need. I have many tags for project information with which I can sort out information for the various projects I am involved with. I use the toolbar along with Firefox tabs so I can quickly open multiple sites containing project information"  John Schaffer
• "After a year of use, delicious has become indispensable.  It is now my default homepage and search engine on the three computers I routinely use.  My network feeds directly to my RSS reader so that I stay connected to the websites they find interesting (as do they to mine).  I used it successfully as a class communications/connections tool with my graduate students."  Britt Wattwood
• "While there are many fine online social bookmarking sites available, del.icio.us is still my favorite because of the extensive network. At EdTechTalk.com, we use del.icio.us to aggregate educational technology links bookmarked within our community of educators - see del.icio.us/edtechtalk where we have over 3,100 bookmarked web sites. The links that are shared each week within the network form the content for our live EdTechWeekly web cast."  Jennifer Maddrell
• "for sharing links"  Patti Shank
• " for all my bookmarking (added as a Firefox plugin)"  Derek Wenmoth
• "Cannot imagine living or working without delicious anymore, ideal for classes building and sharing research and items of interest"  Anne Paterson
• "Extremely useful tool for book marking and categorising interesting websites. It is very easy to access through the browser buttons. I also like the included searching, networking and subscribing features."  Patricia Donaghy
• "A social bookmarking site that allows me to store bookmarks on the Web instead of inside my Web browser.  Also, I use del.icio.us to share bookmarks with students, colleagues, friends, family, and the del.icio.us community."  Steve Yuen
• "I keep finding more ways to use this productively. Always a big hit in my workshops."  Barry Dahl
• "Not only does it help me transfer my research and excellent web-treasures, but it has also created a network among other educators with the same interests and goals.  Great tool to make the world flatter."  Kora Stoll
• "Social bookmarking is very important for me because I like to share my links with others and storing my bookmarks in a secure way"  Jose Carlos del Arco
• "At last a favourites (bookmarks) site that works on any computer. And, I can see those posted by like minded colleagues and friends."  David Sugden
• " for accessing my bookmarks, just discovering networking features at the moment"  Nicola Avery
• "I have come to rely on having all of my bookmarks accessible from any online computer, searchable, tagged, shareable and the "Links For You" feature bringing in more. It helps me keep current and lets me easily find my "past" Using RSS for tags allow me to create custom and updated resources lists of links for classes, faculty and peers. Free."  Audrey J Williams
• "I collect and tag lots of sites for future reference and use. My del.icio.us account is del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis - if you are an educator or an academic, you might want to check out my tags."  Joan Vinall-Cox
• "Information fishing stick (or rather net?) in the internet ocean. Very efficient and simple social bookmarking tool with a must-have firefox plug-in." Stylianos Mystakidis
• "tagged bookmarking made easy and relevant"  Nick Hood
• "This has been the way I have kept track of all the articles and posts I have found that I expect to find useful for my dissertation. What a boon! Not only that, but other people are able to mark things for me, and I can search for things that may be useful using keywords. Much better results than a visit the library - although I don't mean to diss libraries, by any means! "  Karyn Romeis
• "Makes sharing online resources within faculties easy. Promotes student collaboration in research. I visit the main page a couple of times a day to check whats new, hip and happening."  Jason Denys
• "I’ve transferred my affections to del.icio.us now away from browser-based bookmarks. It’s the only way."  Patrick Mayfield
• "A favourite among many, the tag and search features of this free social bookmarking tool have been invaluable to me in keeping track of resources for myself."  Pattie Mascaro
• "The Firefox plug in for De.licio.us makes this easy as well.  As you can tell, I am all about ease." Kevin Jones
• "where I add to the collective brain"  Will Richardson
• "I find this great for storing my own bookmarks (to be accessible from any pc), for sharing bookmarks with others, and for finding out what my friends and lecturers are bookmarking (particularly in the technology arena). In summary - a fantastic knowledge hosting/sharing site"  Karen OBrien
• "Sharing educational web sites and resources with other teachers is painless with del.icio.us"  Jason Edwards
• "I am a complete convert to del.icio.us! i like the way you can build in mini-comments for each entry, a little like micro-blogging. And i like the way you can follow other people's bookmarks (i prefer to follow people who write informative comments.) Since Yahoo created the new "official" delicious plugin, i've been crazy about this social bookmarking service. i especially like the way you can publish the RSS feed in another place. eg the front page in this place. (Eyes Roll - though i'm dreading what could happen if microsoft buys out Yahoo.)" Michael Chalk
• "whenever I have to introduce someone to Web 2.0 this is where I start - its value is clear, its web accessible is clear, its collaborative nature is clear. Then i can start to use and share some of my links with my colleagues."  Andrew Middleton
• "I have been deep in Del.icio.us for more than a year and I love the power built into it.  I started with just a few sites, now I have over 1000 sites tagged, bundled, and shared on several of my other sites.  This amazing tool has allowed me to keep up to date, and forget the sites I only use or need to tell someone else about a few times a year. del.icio.us/amboe_k " Kevin Amboe
• "I can’t believe how much I depend on this social bookmarking tool to remember sites I have visited but also for sharing cool sites with my friends. Now I don’t need to be that annoying friend who always sends emails recommending websites (I can’t help myself) - if I find a site and know my friend’s del.icio.us name I can tag the site as: for:ccassinelli and then when that user goes to their del.icio.us account they can add my favorite to theirs. This is very helpful for group projects!" Colette Cassinelli
• "the best social bookmark. The best way to share links and resources." Cristina Mendes Da Costa
• "a new way to share and learn through tags"  Florence Meichel
• "my social bookmark. "  Alexandre Bobeda
• " I love del.icio.us.  The ability to have all my bookmarks (currently over 3500) online and easily accessible from both home and from work is indispensable.  The easy of integration with geographyalltheway.com and the sharing dynamic are top features of this essential service. My bookmarks can be seen here: del.icio.us/geographyalltheway"  Richard Allaway
• "I personally use this tool to keep up with what other people in the field are doing. There's so much information out there on the internet that it's overwhelming to find the really useful stuff. Being about to find other people who are passionate about the same things I am and being able to look at their list of links is priceless!"  Janice Petosky
• "My del.icio.us space is posted numerous times each day. I have found tools that link del.icio.us to some of my other favourites and this I hope will be very useful."  Elaine Talbert
• "I have two delicious accounts - one for my class and one for my own use.  Just about every day I check a variety of tags to see what 'new stuff' I can find."  Kris Stanhope
• "Personal bookmarking at its best. If, like me you work on a number of machines in a number of locations, it is useful to access stored links and documents from a browser regardless of where you happen to be, once you have an internet connection."  Michael Hanley
• " the tagging facility and ability to write a note about the page you are bookmarking makes this particularly useful. Not to mention the fact that you can access this anywhere you have an internet connection!"  Jenny Luca
• "Again, same as last year (but with updated stats!): “I’ve posted about my use of del.icio.us bookmarks as well, and I keep going. Now, I don’t use them as much as my friends Trey Martindale (who, as of this post has 1400+ bookmarks) and Chris Duke (currently 1400+ bookmarks), but I do use them. I currently manage two accounts. One is for my personal use, and the other is a set of links for our EDTC 3123 (pre-service teacher technology) course.”  John Curry
• "how did we survive without social bookmarking? I use this every day, and love the ease with which I can share information with people in my network."  Judy O'Connell
• "Love the tagging function. I also get a lot of information I wouldn't normally find by subscribing to my Network as a feed in Netvibes. This way I can see what other people I admire are turning up in their web browsing"  Michele Martin
• "Social bookmarking has been a revolution in my research and knowledge management work. A great place to have all of my bookmarks, share them and connect with others. "  Juan Antonio Ortiz
• "Del.icio.us has become one of my primary tools for personal knowledge management. Pretty much anything I find interesting and worth returning to is bookmarked there. http://del.icio.us/jcobbm2l " Jeff Cobb