I recently wrote about using del.icio.us in the RUBRIC project. My
colleague Deidre Lowe wrote up all the steps she had to go through to
set up del.icio.us and use blogines to track it.
I'm reproducing Deidre's instructions here with permission, as they're a
lot better than my vague handwaving exhortations to go and sign up for
del.icio.us and bloglines.
(She's using Internet Explorer on Windows, your mileage may vary if you
are using a different browser.)
Purpose
: To explain how to use Bloglines and del.icio.us to monitor tagged
information relevant to the RUBRIC project for the purposes of
professional development.
Scope
: RUBRIC Project Team (and the rest of the world).
# Step 1: Subscribe to Bloglines
1. Open a browser session
2. Navigate to [http://bloglines.com](http://bloglines.com/)
3. Click the option “Sign up now”
4. Complete the fields as prompted (eg email, Password)
5. Check your email for the confirmation email
6. Follow the instructions in the confirmation email
# Step 2: Subscribe to del.icio.us
1. Remain in your browser session
2. Navigate to [http://del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/)
3. Click on “Register”
4. Complete the fields as prompted (eg username, full name, password,
email)
5. Type the letters as requested (this is to prevent spammers
registering automatically)
6. Click the “register” button
7. Check your email for the confirmation email
8. Follow the instructions in the confirmation email
# Step 3: Add menu options to Favourites for easy selection
1. Remain in your browser session
2. Navigate to [http://del.icio.us/doc/about](http://del.icio.us/doc/about)
3. Follow the instructions to install the “remember this” link into
your Favourites
4. Follow the instructions to install the “my del.icio.us” link into
your Favourites
5. Navigate to [http://bloglines.com/help/easysub?tip=6](http://bloglines.com/help/easysub?tip=6)
6. Follow the instructions to install the “sub with Bloglines” link to
your Favourites
7. Check your “Links” button on the browser toolbar to see if the links
have all been saved
# Step 4: Subscribe to del.icio.us tag via Bloglines
1. Remain in your browser session
2. Go to [http://del.icio.us/tag/destrubric](http://del.icio.us/tag/destrubric)
3. Click on your Links button and select “Sub with Bloglines”
4. Complete any additional information (such as notes) that you wish to
add about the subscription
5. Click “subscribe”
# Step 5: Use del.icio.us to add sites to the “destrubric” tag
1. Remain in your browser session
2. Navigate to a page that would be of broad interest to the RUBRIC
team (or anyone else monitoring this del.icio.us tag)
3. Click on your Links button and select “remember this”
4. Add a brief description about the site in the “description” field
(this may be prepopulated by metadata)
5. Add a note in the “extended” field explaining why you have tagged it
6. Enter the tag destrubric and any other
appropriate tags into the “Tag” field
7. Click “Save”
# Step 6: Monitor feeds via Bloglines
1. Remain in your browser session
2. Navigate to the page [http://bloglines.com/myblogs](http://bloglines.com/myblogs)
3. Click on the link del.icio.us/tag/destrubric
# Step 7: Add other RSS feeds to Bloglines
1. Remain in your browser session
2. Navigate to a blog of interest [How about this one! PS]
3. Click on your Links button and select “Sub via Bloglines”
4. Complete any additional information
5. Click “subscribe”
Background Information
> del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add
> sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize
> those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only
> between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
> [ class="T5">http://del.icio.us/doc/about](http://del.icio.us/doc/about)
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