Bookmarking with Delicious

Everyone comments on how easy it is for them to sign up for and start using delicious. I had a bit of a different experience. Last week my daughter and I decided on the spur of the moment to get our hair cut while we were out shopping. She went for some highlighting of her hair as well. Because her appointment was so much longer than mine, I had a lot of free time in the salon to be on one of the computers they so graciously provide. "I'll just set up that delicous account while I'm here," I thought. So I did....except I couldn't download any of the buttons, because it wasn't my computer. "Oh well", thought I, "I'll just finish this up at home."

A few days later, I tried to finish my delicious account process and, firstly, realized I couldn't remember the user name or password I used. I keep a word doc with all my logins on my home computer, but of course, I didn't set it up on my home computer! I finally remembered my username, played around until I figured out the password I had used, and then found that the page to set up the buttons was no longer there! Eventually I found it and installed the buttons. But the "tag" button didn't install, so I installed them again. Still no "tag" button ( the most useful and necessary one if this technology is actually going to make things easier!!). My solution was to set up a new account and go through the process all at once. Installed buttons, still no "tag" button. Eventually, I realized that it just wasn't showing on my toolbar, and I could add it easily to make it show up. Hmmm...now I had two delicious accounts! Fortunately, deleting an account with delicous is very simple (unlike AOL, where I still have two unused accounts and can't figure out how to delet them!!). Once these hurdles were overcome, the process was, and now is, very simple indeed!

I found both of the tutorial videos extremely helpful to watch before setting up the account. It seems as though I am slowly changing my internet habits as I utilize these new tools from Web 2.0. As my habits change, this all becomes more intuitive and useful to me.
I set up a Diigo account after a workshop I took a couple weeks ago. This will be used by all of the librarians in our school district to share resources. I haven't done much with it yet. I also have a twitter account but so far, fail to see its usefulness! Maybe this class will allow me to gain insight into that!