Today I’m going to highlight del.icio.us, a “social bookmarks manager.” By using these bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them, making it easy for you and others to easily find the best on the web.

Check out this video, it does a great job at describing the site:

Why should I use this site?

I think the video does a great job explaining why it’s good to use. But since I’m assuming you’re running a property management company, there are even a few more reasons. For instance, you can see how many others have book marked your site. As of 10/17/07 427 people have bookmarked and tagged www.homeaway.com with the tag “vacationrentals” and 1118 people have bookmarked www.VRBO.com.

In addition to tracking others, you can create feeds from your top tags. Example: if you tag all the restaurants in your community “restaurants” you can then display them in a feed. This link shows you how to share/display the rss feed [click here].

A tag is a word you use to describe/categorize a bookmark. Instead of using folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like. It’s a better way to organize your bookmarks (and other things) and a great way to discover interesting things on the Web.

RSS:

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. It is a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people. It is used by computer programs that organize those headlines and notices for easy reading.

Go to http://del.icio.us/help/getstarted and create an account and add the tag buttons in your toolbar. Then add me as a friend. My id is mjmcfaddenjr. I’ve been a regular social bookmarker for quite some time so I’ve got quite a few bookmarks (over 1400). And as you can imagine I have a bunch of bookmarks for vacation, travel, and vacation rentals.

For your first bookmark feel free to go to www.thesociety.com and tag it. I recommend using terms such as coolsite, leisure, socialnetwork, travel, vacationrentals, vacation, really cool