How Del.icio.us Helps Libraries and Academia

From the del.icio.us blog:

• Top 100 Tools for Learning — according to lists contributed by learning professionals, Delicious ranks first. Last year we were second only to Firefox.
• Library Journal explains why Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us.
• 7 things you should know about Social Bookmarking (PDF) is a primer from a university perspective, written by EDUCAUSE.
• How Delicious is changing academic research: a PhD student says “Delicious is the Rome, Jerusalem, and Paris of my existence as an academic these days. It’s where I make my friends, how I get the news, and where I go to trade.”
• A PBS Teachers blog takes “a look at the wonderful world of del.icio.us”.
• A collection of links to libraries that use Delicious, including many university libraries, with additional links to resources and tools.
• All about social bookmarking tools on the Teaching Hacks wiki.
• Social bookmarking on the Classroom 2.0 wiki. A couple of us (Stephen Hood and Chris Kim) spoke about Delicious at the Classroom 2.0 conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago.
• Networking with Del.icio.us — a short screencast by an instructional technology specialist which explains “your network” and “links for you”.