In short.  If you will save web pages useful to Dayway by using the Delicious tags, "dayaway.jobs" and "dayaway.other," we will organize them properly in the Dayaway site so everyone can use them.  So, if you throw it on the pile with one click, we will do the rest.  Here are the details.

How does this help Dayaway, help me?  Everyday as we are searching or researching we find and discard pages that are unhelpful to us but valuable to someone else.  The MBA searcher sees and discards a job listing for an engineer and the engineer does the same.  Each would profit by seeing the other's "trash."  For this to happen, you need a middleman.  That's Dayaway.

What's Delicious?  You no doubt are familiar with your "favorites," "bookmarks," "folders" where you store web site information you want to go back to.  This is what Delicious does, but with a twist.  The bookmarks you create with Delicious are stored on the web (not your computer) so anyone can access them.  This is not good if your bookmarks need privacy.  This is great for information you want to share.

Why Delicious? There are other services, and some may be as good or better.  Since Dayaway is just getting going, we want to start with one service and master it.  Overtime perhaps it will be wise to use additional or other bookmarking services.  Dayaway makes no money from Delicious.

Downsides?  We don't think so.  Delicious is free.  You can cancel your registration at anytime (it really works).  It probably sends cookies to your computer, but we have not noticed any problems over the past months.  It's your call, but we don't see any downsides.

Registration.  Go to Delicious.com and follow the prompts.  Here are some tips.  Step 2 of registration permits you to transfer/import your existing bookmarks into Delicious.  We skipped this step.  It's not necessary for Dayaway.  Second, getting the Delicious Tag button into your browser's toolbar can be confusing.  We messed up.  If, after registration, the tag button is not installed on your browser's toobar at top of your screen, click on Help.  Look at "most frequently asked questions" to find the question about re-installing the tab button.  Follow the advice

Signing into Delicious.  When you sign in, there's a box titled, "keep me signed in."  Check it.  If you don't, your tag button on your toolbar won't automatically produce your saved tags (discussed next).  Just remember to sign-out of Delicious when you are done with it.

First Time Tagging.  The first time you use Delicious, you will need to create the "dayaway.jobs" and "dayaway.other" tag (each person will have his/her own set of dayaway tags - delicious/mikejones.dayaway.jobs)  When you see a web page useful to Dayaway, click the Delicious "Tag" button in your tool bar.  You will get a pop-up box with the cursor in the Tag box.  If your page is a job listing or directly related to a specific job, type in "dayaway.jobs" and save it.  Type in "dayaway.other" for any other page and save it.

Frequent Flying.  The next time you click the Tag button, just type the letter "d" in the Tag box of the Delicious pop-up window.  You will get a listing of your tags including "dayaway.jobs" and "dayaway.other".  Highlight the one you like and save it.  It's that simple.  If you are feeling really helpful, you can type in a comment in the description box, but that's not necessary.  We will then post the page in the right section of the Dayaway site.  If we don't, contact us to find out why not.  We may have missed it.