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I recently signed up for a $1 trial to Jack Humphrey’s Social Power Linking course and I want to share a clever little program that he clued me in on. It’s called ClipMarks and it takes bookmarking to a whole new level.

I could try and explain what ClipMarks is and how it works, but I really think that a good video (or 2 or 3 - or maybe even 4) can explain it much better (and quicker). 

Videos about Clickmarks

To start with, let’s see how ClickMarks works:

Clipmarks - Clip it, Save it, Share it, Blog it (00:49)

Now let’s delve a bit deeper into the Clip to Blog feature:

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What do you get when you combine a social butterfly with a bookworm?

Del.ico.us.

Okay, I won’t quit my day job - but seriously folks, social bookmarking in general and delicious in particular is something that you want to know about.

Why?

Let’s let Lee LeFever of Common Craft answer that question:

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

And while we are at it, we should also let Garrett from Tech-Bite get his two cents worth in:

Tech-bite’s Intro to Del.icio.us

Note: When I signed up for Delicious I was asked if I wanted to install the Delicious Firefox Extension, which does not include the sidebar or toolbar mentioned in Garrett’s video. I later on installed the Delicious Bookmarks Firefox Add-on which does include the forementioned sidebar and toolbar. In other words, don’t worry if your default settings of del.icio.us don’t look like they do in the Tech-bite video.

Okay, now that you’ve got the basics down, let’s start to look at some of the more powerful networking features of Del.icio.us. We’ll let Liz B. Davis guide us on this tour with two very nice videos on how to best use Del.icio.us.

Her first video is also of the intro to Del.icio.us variety, but at the end she shows us how to use del.icio.us to discover what other people find valuable on the web. This is one of the powerful social elements of tools like Del.icio.us which enable us to learn from other peoples research. Let’s see how it works:

Getting Started with Delicious

Liz’s next video takes things a step further by showing us how we can build up our own social network of Delicious friends. This, in my mind, is a video that everyone should watch as it can be an extremely powerful marketing and search feature if used properly:

Networking with Delicious

By now you should have a good idea of what Delicious is and how to use it. But Delicious is not the only game in town - there are literally hundreds of Social Bookmarking sites that have popped up over the last few years - each with their own unique way of doing things. Hopefully we’ll be able to cover some of those other sites in future video tutorials.

Until then, why not get started and take a bite out of Del.icio.us?