De.icio.us - Thing # 13

This post will be a quick one because I've just about run out of time for IUL 2.0 today!

I think del.icio.us would be a fantastic tool for public service librarians, or just about any librarian who uses several more than one computer on a regular basis. I work at one machine 99.9% of the time, but every once in a while I've had to move to a different machine, and oh, the agony! I have NONE of my bookmarks, and have to keep using google to find our vendor databases just to do my routine work! I actually set up my del.icio.us account right before I left for a trip this past September, so I would be able to find the hotel websites easily while we were on the road. I found it hard to set up and get my brain wrapped around the concepts, but now that all my links are there, I feel pretty good about using it. (when I have to... and I don't very often!)

So the portability of Del.icio.us is definitely its biggest plus for me at this point, because right now I'm not concerned with sharing my links or skipping along a research path using other users' tags. I really appreciated the Otter Group's tutorial because it had really good suggestions about using tags for group work. And last, the Several Habits of Wildly Successful Del.icio.us users will definitely come in handy someday!