This week we’ll look at social bookmarking – a way to bookmark your favourite websites and share them with your friends. For example, I can easily give you a link to my del.icio.us bookmarks about 23 Things and when I’ve posted this I can add this blog post to the list as well.

A lot of libraries are using this for subject guides and current awareness. (You can get an RSS feed of a del.icio.us tag so you can get notified when the library adds another website to its collection of “chemical engineering” bookmarks.)

Here’s

• Social Bookmarking in Plain English (CommonCraft video, ~3min)
• Del.icio.us tutorial (8 min)

In our groups this week we’ll create a del.icio.us account and practice browsing tag clouds and adding bookmarks.