One of the coolest gadgets that you have and use is your computer. Not only can this tool help you in more ways than I can describe (new ones are being created everyday) but it can be an indispensable tool in helping you find needed information for your children. Baby care, toys, clothes, breast feeding, parenting, baby names, medical advice, info for Dads, it is all there and so much more. You just have to know where to look.
And in today's post I want to show you a couple of ways to use your computer to find information about babies and other parenting issues that might arise. You can use the links that I will provide to find all kinds of info.
One of my favorite sites to search for things is called Del.icio.us it is a social networking site among other things. It allows you to keep all your links to information on the internet in one place and to share them with others. It is the sharing that makes this site so powerful. You can share your links between your work and home computers for instance. This way you have your list of favorites readily available at all times.
And you can do what I am doing in this article you can share your links with your friends and family;
For example, if you click on this link
Fitzgerald's Del.icio.us Baby Links
You can see many of the links I use to do research for this blog.
The really cool thing about the link above is that it is also easy to remember if you type del.icio.us/kfitzgerald/baby you will be taken to this link. And if you know the user name of anyone that has a delicious account you just type delicious and their username and then you can see their links. Very simple and very powerful.
The next feature of delicious that I really like is the tag feature. All links in delicious have tags associated with them and if you want to see information on a certain topic, all you have to do is type del.icio.us/tag/baby
http://del.icio.us/tag/baby Delicious tag for baby.
http://del.icio.us/tag/parenting Delicious tag for parenting.
http://del.icio.us/tag/preganacy Delicious tag for pregnancy.
The links above actually go to technorati which I cover below. I include them just to tag this post.
And I could go on, but you get the idea just enter a word that you want to know something about after "tag/" and you will be presented links to web pages about that tag.
Another nice tool is Technorati. Like Delicious it has tags and these tags lead to some very interesting blogs.
The format of technorati tags is;
http://www.technorati.com/tag/baby
And to ad tags to your own blog you use this format;
< href="http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]" rel="tag">[tagname]< /a >
http://www.technorati.com/tag/baby#taglink
Well I hope that this brief introduction to delicious and technorati shows you a few of the possibilites that are open to a parent who knows how to use the internet to research topics of interest.
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2 comments:
Del.icio.us works for a narrow topic, if you can correctly guess the keyword that other people use to bookmark the topic. Broad terms such as "baby" or "parenting" are tools for folks who want to insta-establish a baby blog. If you faithfully browse a handful of Del.icio.us tags, there are several prominent, popular baby blogs you can almost stop reading because you'll see the links on Del.icio.us first. The problem is, browsing the "baby" or "parenting" tags is a huge time killer because there are many repeats and variations on a topic. And it won't be too long before spammers establish Del.icio.us accounts and insert their own links into every (off)topic imaginable.
Hey AJ,
Thanks for stopping by. I really appreciate your input. I agree with you, both technorati and del.icio.us are being over run by spammers. And it really hurts small blogs like mine that are hosted on blogger. Because of the low barrier to entry anybody can start up a blog, and many that do, just do it to spam. And they see technorati and del.icio.us as tools to do that.
But, del.icio.us is still a viable tool for people like you and I. I would love to see your del.icio.us links, and I am sure that if you viewed mine you probably found something that peeked your interest. I recommend that you put your del.icio.us links up and share them with your readers.
I also wrote about technorati and del.icio.us in my Tsquared blog (tip, tricks and tools) you might find that post interesting. Click here to read Tip: How to use tags to increase your traffic
And because I have you included in my del.icio.us links, others will find and read your very cool blog.
Thanks again and best regards,
Fitzgerald
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