Ever wonder what the famous authors read? I’m sure you have. Or maybe just whoever that you happen to know whom you think is a wonderful and respected person. The best way would be to look at the citation page and check out the book list and online URLs. Those are probably the most valuable sources you should tap into to learn more about a particular person or a field.

How to use Delicious bookmarks

If the author or whoever person you’re interested in uses Delicious bookmarks often, you’re in for a great information gold mine. A highly effective way is to look at his Delicious bookmarks and visit the all the links he’s saved in his profile.

If you want to be more targeted at a specific niche, say personal development, then dig around his bookmarks tags. Tags are useful ways to get into a specific category provided. They might not be exactly the same as you’d think initially, say the tag could be money, investment, budget, etc instead of personal finance. If the author is active in writing the description, it’s even better!

Use Delicious for Personal Branding

Using Delicious bookmarks is also good way to brand yourself. I believe the best way to use it is to save articles, videos, and sites that are interesting and useful only. Don’t save junks (read: another me-too article on losing weight). If you want to save junks, at least tag it junks so people know that you’re conscious about what you read.

Also, you should add a description of the link that you save so that people know what your opinion is on the subject. Do you think it’s genius? Or maybe it’s not backed up by facts? Or it could just be a random blog post by someone who’s stopped blogging for a year. Whatever it may be, make sure to note it down. It’s great for your own reference later on. You’d probably had forgotten most of the stuffs by then.

Finally, post your Delicious link on your profile (Twitter, Facebook, Blog, etc) so that it’s visible to your audience, which could be your friends, coworkers, or your blog readers. There’s no point in trying to brand yourself when nobody knows that you even exist.

Video Tutorial

Charlie Hoehn talked about how to hack into someone’s mind by using Delicious bookmarks in this video. You might want to check it out while you’re here to get more out of Delicious bookmarks. His example about figuring out someone else’s marketing strategy is great, but then again it’s probably not as easy as it sounds. It takes time and patience to study all the materials a person reads, and finally get a sense of what he’s thinking about. If you’re not serious about it or you have no need for it, you could just bookmark the video for now.

A Two-edged Sword

The advantages of Delicious could also be its disadvantages. Sometimes people save a bunch of stuffs just because it’s fast and easy. In fact, if you’re using Firefox, you definitely want to download the Delicious add-on because it makes bookmarking much quicker. Here’s the link to the download.

Anyway, you have to be careful about what the person does with Delicious. If he’s just saving a bunch of stuffs to read but he might not necessarily agree with the materials or he may even think that they’re junks. In that case, if you follow him, you’re probably reading junks as well. If he has his own critics about the links though then it might be worth to check out the links and see you should avoid doing, otherwise you should just ignore the junks.

You Become What You Feed into Your Mind

The key is to stand guard of your mind. Don’t let junks come into you and pollute your beautiful mind. Even if it comes from the greatest person on earth (don’t know who that person is to you), but it’s junk to you, then it’s junk no matter what. So just ignore it and save yourself some time (which we don’t have enough these days!).

Remember, your thoughts are influenced by what you feed into your mind, and you will become what you think about.

Do you use Delicious bookmarks? And more importantly, are you getting the best out of it?

Share with us some great tips you’ve been using on this wonderful bookmarking service!

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