Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious = Useful + Simple

Through this initiative we give peers in development cooperation from Africa, Asia and South America the opportunity to become a Focuss.Info workshop facilitator in their own country! The Focuss.Info initiative stimulates the use of web 2.0 tools amongst workers and researchers in the domain of development studies and cooperation in Africa, Asia and South-America and therefore we invite peers to organise these local workshops and we sponsor participation.

One of the areas that should be part of the workshop is social bookmarking. During each of the workshops social bookmarking is being promoted as one of the ways to share knowledge in our field. By explaining what social bookmarking is and how to use it Focuss.Info improves the way international development cooperation institutes are sharing knowledge locally and globally. Most of the time, we explain more about www.delicious.com, but we always leave it up to our peers which social bookmarking platform they want to use (as long as they notify the Focuss.Info Initiative coordinators about their effort to store their favourite websites in development cooperation on the Internet).

But now peers don't have to use directly social bookmarking platforms anymore. If you are using Twitter, your social bookmarking account can automatically be filled with your useful websites. This is being done by Packrati.us

Packrati.us provides a simple bookmarking service. This service follows your twitter feed, and whenever your tweet or re-tweet contains URLs, the service adds them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you, and in tweets you mark as Favorites.

This is a great addition to make it easier for peers to learn from each other by saving and sharing valuable websites. Try it out, and let us know what the location of your social bookmarking account is. This makes you become a knowledge-broker on the www.focuss.info community!