We know a number of you are Yahoo! website owners or Advertisers. We’re hoping that you’re aware of the excellent Yahoo! Web Analytics service and it’s blog. Today the Yahoo! Web Analytics blog posted an article about their usage of the ‘ywa_support_resources‘ tag.
Check out the ‘Social Bookmarking with Delicious and YWA‘ article to see what they’re doing.
30 comments August 31st, 2010
If you’re a mom like me, you constantly worry about developing healthy eating habits for your kids. How do you get the little munchkins to eat their vegetables? (And I am not talking about french fries.) Luckily my 9-month-old (who now has two small teeth) simply adores one healthy green: okra or, as many countries refer to it, bamieh, lady fingers, or gumbo. This flowering plant is high in fiber, calcium, and iron. It’s fuzzy on the outside and mucilaginous on the inside!
My introduction to okra was when I visited the exotic city of Ahvaz, Iran. It was in a stew called “koresh bamieh.” I next saw it in North Carolina, where I was told by a K&W Cafeterias hostess:“you gotta try those, honey; everyone around here loves them things. You ain’t a true Southerner if you don’t love Okra.”
It actually took me a year or two to realize that okra and bamieh were the same vegetable!
As you know, there are many people who use Delicious to bookmark recipes – it’s a foodies’ paradise. My fond memories associated with koresh bamieh inspired me to dedicate a tag on Delicious to okra. It’s really easy to do:
And here is my own koresh bamieh recipe, just published on our Yahoo! Answers blog, using eggplant instead of the traditional lamb. Check it out and let me know whether you like it.
Bon appétit or, as we say in Iran, “noosh-e jaan.”
33 comments August 18th, 2010
Hi, everyone:
As I mentioned in my previous posts, I wanted to feature some of your great user stories on our blog. Congratulations to Gemma Holm, our first Delicious guest blogger. We are always open to your suggestions for topics for future blog posts, so don’t be shy.
A teacher’s Delicious inspiration
By Gemma Holm
Like many of my friends, I use Yahoo! Groups to participate in current conversations about pop culture, healthy relationships, and recipes. As a teacher, I also take pride in posting kind responses to anguished questions posted by teenagers on Yahoo! Answers. Recently, after reading about Delicious on the Yahoo! Groups blog, I decided to check it out. Wow! Parents, teachers, tutors, and librarians take note: Delicious can be a wonderful tool for student learning.
At the start of class, I usually distribute a list of favorite websites to my students, but it is always incomplete. This year, I’m planning to use Delicious with students in my classes to collaboratively select, bookmark, tag, and describe websites that seem especially helpful and relevant.
I’d like my class to explore ways to use a group Delicious account to support student success. In our class discussions, students can critically consider which websites we should add, and which to leave out. Considering what to include provides an authentic opportunity to talk about website credibility and sources. Additionally, it makes more of our class research accessible to students and their families outside of class.
My students already work in groups. This year, these teams will research relevant websites, and nominate them for our class Delicious page. As students conduct research and sift through options, they will be engaged in a learning process. Our class discussions provide opportunity for collaboration and debate. I look forward to the first suggestion that we include Wikipedia.com, so that we can have an in-depth examination of benefits and possible pitfalls of crowdsourced material for research and writing. I eagerly await the day that a group nominates a website of its own making.
Tagging our Delicious websites will help us to form a common vocabulary that can enhance discussions, research, and student writing. Nominating and considering tags can provide a great lead-in to discussing electronic research methods. I aim to help my students gain a new appreciation for tags, keywords, and subject searches.
There are also a few different ways we can use tag descriptions. One would be to include a brief summary of the homework assignment that capitalizes on a group links. Another would be to create enhanced descriptions of our links so that classes from another state or country would understand the focus and limits of our research. Next year, I hope to collaborate with another instructor and class in another state or another country that is studying a similar topic, and to share our Delicious links.
This year, when my students sit down to write, meet with a tutor, or study for a test, they will be able to visit our Delicious page and access our online class resources . Parents, tutors, and other helpers will have one more tool to support student learning. I can’t wait for school to start.
Guest blogger Gemma Holm teaches writing and study skills in Pittsburgh, PA.
50 comments August 11th, 2010
Hi, everyone:
We admit it has been a while since our last Delicious product release, and here’s why:
Most of these changes might not be obvious, but you’re bound to notice better-looking buttons, which are the first in a series of improvements we’ll be making to the interface.
We’ve also removed the SHARE link for private bookmarks. Though you can change the privacy setting by clicking EDIT or the Lock icon to the left of the link.
Another change to note is that Tags on the site will be basic rectangles instead of chevrons. We hope this will remove some points of confusion, reduce the code slightly, and limit how much the display fractures, when you increase the browser text size.
As you can see, we’ve been active listeners and tried to incorporate your continuous feedback in making the above changes.
Enjoy!
42 comments August 4th, 2010
