The excellent direct YouTube link was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU
called Social Bookmarking in Plain English from CommonCraft.
My colleague and I took the "Geeks Bearing Gifts" course a couple of years ago and immediately adopted Del.icio.us. We use it for work to gather sites and I have a separate account at home for personal bookmarks.
At work it is really helpful for sharing links off of our personal computers. We have used it for health fairs both at work and at church since the address is one that anyone can access anywhere. My main complaint is that the tag cloud titles are not searchable. The trick we have used to work around that is making sure to assign that "folder title" as a tag. Here is an example: http://del.icio.us/TSRHClibrarians/consumer-health
If you scroll down on the right you will see the real folder for "consumer health" but at least the sites are also tagged with that term. However, you will see that the "related tags" and the tags in the actual "consumer health" folder are different.
The other way I use Del.icio.us is as a quick way to add links to my website. My actual library website is more cumbersome to update. I have an area that includes links to DFW area sites, transportation, amusements, etc., for our visitors. It is easy to tag something in Del.icio.us without getting into updating the actual website. You can see these at http://del.icio.us/TSRHClibrarians/DFW
I appreciate the information about Connotea and CiteULike for professional journal article citation bookmarking. I had not heard about them and will begin assessing and recommending them to my users.
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