If you maintain two separate del.icio.us accounts (one personal account and one for a business or web site), you know how difficult del.icio.us can be to use if you are having to switch usernames all of the time. Essentially, everytime you want to post a site to the other del.icio.us account you have to logoff, and enter your other username and password.

But you aren’t supposed to use del.icio.us like that. Just create one account and tag personal stuff as personal and business/site stuff as business.

I think there are some good reasons for having separate del.icio.us accounts. For example, if your del.icio.us links are recommendations to your users/readers, you might not want them to think you are endorsing all of the crazy sites you post to your personal account. No matter whether or not your reasons for having two del.icio.us accounts are ‘good’ reasons, maintaining two accounts is cumbersome if you don’t have some good tools. To overcome the nuisance of re-logging into del.icio.us all of the time, I have devised this simple “hack” (if you will). Ok, so it’s not really a hack, but let’s just pretend.

• del.icio.us buttons provided by del.icio.us
• del.icio.us complete extension from the Firefox Addons page

The idea is that you will remain logged in under one user, so that you can post to that account with the browser buttons provided by del.icio.us. The browser buttons provided by del.icio.us will always post to the account you are currently logged in under. So, if you log out of the del.icio.us account that you have set up with the del.icio.us browser buttons provided by del.icio.us, you need to log back in in order to post sites to that account.

Using the Options…/ Accounts tab in del.icio.us complete, set the second button to post to your other account. Voila!