This is another great tool. I decided to import my “favourites” into del.icio.us, along with a few new links to web 2.0 tools. I can tag each one with my own meaningful terms, see who else has also bookmarked them as useful (if any) and how they have classified them. This tool also means I can access my links wherever I am. I can see how this would be in valuable if people were undertaking research and wanted to keep track of all relevant weblinks in one place. Or a course co-ordinator could set up a profile that contained all the recommended web resources students would need, and students could also add to this themselves. Similarly, it could be used as an alternative traditional library subject guides.
My del.icio.us links are at http://del.icio.us/e70976.
It will be interesting to research more about tagging, social bookmarking and folksonomies in preparation to write the content (blogpost) on this for our 21 lunges program.
I really like the blog post by Elyssa Kronski, The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging about the benefits and flaws of user-based tagging/folksonomies for classification purposes.
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