Create an online portfolio in del.icio.us

The Bamboo Project blog turned me on to another great use for del.icio.us bookmarks: Use them to create an online portfolio of samples of your work. Whether you’re a writer, artist, musician, designer, developer or even a project manager, you can benefit from putting together a portfolio. It will come in handy if you want to share your work potential clients, employers, colleagues or the press. This is also an easy way to keep track of what you’re doing as you go along, without too much maintenance overhead.

You can view my portfolio here.

Some tips:

• Create a unique tag to identify the items in your portfolio. I used sturlington_portfolio.
• Use the tag description feature to give your portfolio a title and write a short introduction for it.
• Write a short description of each item in your portfolio explaining what it is and why you included it. (I think my descriptions could still use a little work.)
• Remember to tag new items that you want to include in your portfolio with your portfolio tag.

That’s it — it couldn’t be simpler. My next goal is to create a more formal portfolio using free Web tools.