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You have a account◦ Proceed to Using the MRN Tag, slide #11.

You have a Log-in but not a account◦ Your Yahoo! Log-on also accesses Delicious; proceed to

Getting Started with Delicious, slide #5.

You don’t have either or Log-in◦ You can do both easily! Proceed to

Getting Started with Delicious, slide #5.

I just want to share resources!◦ That’s cool! Proceed to Sharing Items, slide #12.

Which are you …

Delicious is under Yahoo!’s wing and so uses the Yahoo! ID and log-in. If you already have a Delicious account, just sign in using it.

If you have a Yahoo! Id – you’re ready to go. Just go to https://secure.delicious.com/register to open a Delicious account.

No Yahoo! Id? Then you’ll start by registering there https://edit.yahoo.com/registration

If you’re not interested in either, that’s okay … but still share your resources!

What’s Yahoo! got to do with it?

Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from any computer◦ Better than traditional bookmarking because you can access

from any computer Tag each bookmark using key words and add

comments which helps you search and retrieve your bookmarks easily

Share your bookmarks and get bookmarks in return◦ Great tool for sharing resources as you work on joint projects

for work or personal use Research tool to find interesting articles and items;

search using Delicious tags◦ Use the Subscriptions and Network features to keep track of

the Delicious tags and users you find most interesting.

Why create your own Delicious Account?

Getting Started with Delicious!

Go to http://delicious.com

Select Join Now to go to the Sign-in page.

If you have a Yahoo! ID, sign in

If you don’t have a Yahoo! ID, then sign up for one … this button takes to the Sign-Up Page.

Getting Started: Creating an Account

Set options

Choose a user name …

For e.g., MRN’s is marylandrecyclers

Getting Started: Adding Widgets for Easy Use

Add widgets to your browser* to make it easy to save and search bookmarks.

This is optional!

Delicious walks you through the process!

* Works with most browsers, e.g. Firefox, IE. For IE 8, check out the Add-ons for Delicious Bookmarks Add-On

Getting Started: Using Delicious!

Great way to get started … explore here.

Learn by doing! Click here to save your first bookmark!

Getting Started: Saving a Bookmark!

If you’ve added buttons to your browser, you can click the "Tag" or "Bookmark this on Delicious" button to save a new bookmark.

This screen will pop-up; paste the URL for the item you want to bookmark

Or in Delicious, you can select the “save a new bookmark” button

Getting Started: Saving a Bookmark! (con’t)Regardless of the buttons you've chosen, you'll see this screen.

URL: Address of the page you're bookmarking.

Title: If you're using browser tools, this will be prefilled with the title of the page you're saving. Feel free to edit this in any way that makes sense to you.

Notes: Write additional info for yourself or to let others know why you bookmarked this page.

Tags: Enter one or more tags separated by spaces. Use MRN tag to share items to for the MRN feed; add others as they make sense to you. For more on tags, read our tags section.

Send: Use this option to send the bookmark as you create to specific people.

Be sure hit SAVE!

Using the MRN Tag on

When you save a bookmark that you want to share with MRN, simply add the tag mdrecycle.

We have an RSS feed on the MRN tag which will collect your tagged bookmarks!

Sharing Items (without tagging)

If you find a website, article, blog post or other item on the web that you think members should be aware of via our news feed, follow these steps:

(2) Paste the URL into a email to info@marylandrecyclingnetwork.org.

(3) In your email message, include a brief description of the item and why it should be added to the news feed or knowledge center.

(4) Send.

(1) Copy the URL for the webpage using your copy & paste function.

More Q’s?Contact: Peggy Hoffman, CAEphoffman@marinermanagement.com@peggyhoffmanDelicious: pmariner301-725-2508