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These posts by Michael Martinez should help new edubloggers Build a New Community and Develop Web Friends and Allies

These are the best posts I have read, so far, about how to start to network to build your own community

Finally, I was struck by how difficult it felt to accept much of what I was hearing because, and this is something that is really concerning me (seriously), few if any of these folks had the network creds to be “trusted.” Now I know this is an admission that is going to get me in trouble, and it likely should. But it is also a consequence of being rooted so deeply in this network. It’s not that I distrust their “traditional” creds out of hand, but it’s almost like for me, these days, if you’re not doing at least a little bit of social, networked learning and publishing that I can tap into and track and engage with, I’m just not as inclined to buy in when you’re talking about reforming education with or without technology.

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The biggest problem is how few of our educators still cannot relate to this description. They are neither networks unto themselves or nodes of a larger system, and they understand little about what it means to be either in a world that is more globally interconnected. And our students are not only left without models of what it means to be networked, they also get relatively little content that is contextualized through the network. So network literacy, the functions of working in a distributed, collaborative environment (Jill Walker), is an important aspect of learning and education that precious few of our students get a chance to practice. And it is only by practicing these skills, whether teachers or students, that they can truly be learned.

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Liz Davis, an Instructional Technology Specialist, created this excellent screencast to show how to use del.icio.us for networking. YES, del.icio.us is a great bookmarking and NETWORKING tool.

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I think that Del.icio.us is one of the most useful Web 2.0 tools. It facilitates:
- saving and accesing your bookmarks online
- promoting your own sites (you bookmark in Del.icio.us your best pages, don’t you?)
- finding bookmarks from other users on your network (they are searching for relevant sites for you)
- networking with other users who are in your network.
- reading your network’s bookmarks, since Del.icio.us provides convenient RSS feeds.
- use a “profile” tag, such as emapey’s bookmarks tagged with “profile” on del.icio.us to feature your sites, best posts and articles and important sites linking to you.

List of useful links to resources for using Del.icio.us:

- Del.icio.us help
- Del.icio.us Networking Features
- My Favorite Feed Reader is My Del.icio.us Network
- Networking with Del.icio.us in Education
- Use Del.icio.us to Create your Eportfolio
- Using Del.icio.us for Blogging
- Del.icio.us Is The Recommendation Service For The Internet
- How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us
- Who Says Librarians (and Teachers) Don’t Like Tags
- Top 100 Tools: Delicious
- Del.icio.us Toolbox: 180+ Del.icio.us Tools and Resources
- “Interview With Experts: What’s so cool about del.icio.us?”
- Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us
- del.icio.us as a PR measurement tool
- Tips for Using Delicious In (Doctoral) Research
- del.icio.us libraries
- A discussion of strategies for managing social bookmarking teaching and learning activities (using del.icio.us)
- How Delicious is Changing Academic Research
- Know When People Bookmark You on Del.icio.us
- Visualizing Del.icio.us Networks
- del.icio.us Tips, Part-2: day-to-day use
- A reputation economy via “via:”?
- Del.icio.us Network Explorer

You can start building your del.icio.us network. Join the EdTechTalk Del.icio.us network. You can also continue networking by joining some fans in the del.icio.us/network/edtechtalk

These are my emapey’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
These are my emapey’s del.icio.us network bookmarks
Note how via “My Network”, I now have a stream of bookmarks from some Del.icio.us users I have selected. These users are searching the internet and bookmarking useful sites and pages for me !!!!!

I want to credit my friend FCEBLOG for some of the ideas included in this post.