Category — del.icio.us

I get asked a lot about how del.icio.us can be used for teams in companies. I worked with my boss Beth Ward, to come up with some good uses for collaboration in teams using del.icio.us as well as looked in the blogosphere for some good use cases. Here is what we came up with:

To make this work for your team set up an account for say Marketing Communications. Each member of the team can add new links to the account, using a shared set of tags. This account will then be viewed by others at http://del.icio.us/Marketing

Reasons for using:

• Use social bookmarking and tags to create an ongoing “library” for your email (or RSS) newsletter readers. You will be creating a valuable growing resource for your team – and they can also contribute to the “mind share’ by adding relevant resources.
• Use tags to gather and organize resources for your team. These can be public or private tags, but this makes it incredibly easy to organize and share reports, articles, whitepapers, data sheets, industry research, etc. that may be stored all over the web by simply tagging appropriate web pages. Link to the social tag from your web site, intranet, or extranet.
• Create special tags for your presentations or training sessions. Gather all the resources discussed. such as web sites, studies, tools, etc. into one easy place for your team to reference post-event. Team members can also add resources they know of or find later.
• Use tags for your personal bookmarks and research. Because tags are so much more flexible than browser-based bookmarks, it makes it easy to find relevant resources you might otherwise “lose” in your “Favorites” lists. You can tag them with more than one tag, allowing you to find content evoked by differing circumstances or needs. Plus, because they are stored on the web rather than your own computer, you can get to them from anywhere – including mobile devices or someone else’s computer.

Let me know if you have any other good ideas. I couldn’t find a lot on this in the blogosphere.

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