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Do you want some del.icio.us stickers? Or a few del.icio.us bookmarks - the kind you put inside books? We have a surplus of dots here at the tag mines, and we’d like to distribute them more evenly around the world. To get some schwag, mail a self-addressed stamped envelope to the following address:

Yahoo! Inc.
c/o del.icio.us
2821 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1838

We’ll fill it with goodies and send it back to you. If you want to, include a note with your username, email address, and a comment or suggestion about del.icio.us: something you dislike, a story about how you use it, a feature we should add, or something like that. We’ll include a del.icio.us t-shirt for the people with the most useful and amusing notes, and they’ll entertain me while I suffer paper cuts from opening a zillion envelopes.

Britta Gustafson
community manager intern

Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way to help their students and patrons learn. This makes perfect sense to me as a college student because I bookmark and tag references for all my projects and I’d love to see similar collections from my professors and classmates.

I don’t know who first realized the potential of Delicious for education, but I’ve seen a huge amount of community documentation created by teachers and librarians to help each other understand what this place is, why it’s valuable, and how to use it. Here are some of my favorite bookmarks:

• 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”.

Bonus bookmark: a profile of Joshua as the MIT Technology Review’s Young Innovator of 2006, including part of the story of Delicious’ origins.