Tag clouds

I like the way some organisations are using del.icio.us to make their weblinks available. I think that there could be some good uses of del.icio.us for teams who are working on a project together as you can put all the sites/information found together and receive alerts (via rss) when someone else in the group adds links. It would be a useful collaborative tool for work across several organisations as well.

It could be a good alerts mechanism as well. You could set up a del.icio.us account where website showing technology or other trends are linked and then have a matching blog to write about how the technology (or other trend) could be considered for use in a workplace - it could be a simple method of encouraging brainstorming or generally thinking through a few new ideas.

From a bit of editing on the test account del.icio.us is easy to use. It is helpful being able to add notes so that it can become clearer why a particular site is of interest. The tag clouds can help with trend spotting as well. It was easy to set up a del.icio.us account but now I will have to move my key sites over to that account.

I really like the Aberdeen built ships site with the way they link information about the ship building, images, videos and audio files.