More About Diigo

Hi All,

Karen has asked me to provide you all with more info on working with Diigo so that those of you who are a bit unsure about what you can do with it can get started. Below I’ve included some of its key features, but I strongly encourage you to visit their help menu, where you can access neat little flash tutorials on how to get started that are far better than anything I can whip up here.

Some Diigo Features:

Tagging: An easy, user-generated way to categorize and organize your bookmarks

Annotation: write sticky notes that can be made public so you can interact and collaborate with others who are reading the same pages.

Highlighting: Easy to highlight parts of pages, extract them, and collect them (great for research!)

Groups: you can create public and private groups—a great way to organize group projects and add a level of privacy to Diigo that you may feel more comfortable with than making everything public.

Privacy: Options for privacy are available on just about all Diigo features

Search: You can search not just by tag name, but also titles, notes, highlights, and full text.

Blogging Integration: “Blog This” feature allows you to move easily between browsing and blogging. Populate your blog post instantaneously with the highlighted texts you selected while reading a web page - a big time saver.

Archiving: Allows you to save EXACT copies of bookmarked pages, which protects you from losing cool stuff that may disappear over time.  

Photos: You can collect your favorite photos into albums

Subscribe/Post Lists: Bookmark lists can be subscribed on the website and through RSS

Community: find new content from specific users or based on tags, hot lists

A final word about chosing what social bookmarking services you’d like to use… Which one(s) you use are entirely personal choices based on your needs and preferences. For many of you, del.icio.us will be the best bet, since it has so very many users (and, hence, gives you a much broader pool of people to connect and interact with), is quite intuitive and simple to use, and, put simply, it gets the job done. Diigo, while having the awesome capability of online annotation, has far fewer social capabilities, which may be less of a draw for some of you for your purposes now. Yes, we set up a group on Diigo for 506, but since we are all so incredibly busy working with both our individual and the course blogs, I doubt this group will be as vital as it would be if, say, we were a group of students and a teacher working on a project and wanted to share specific annotated webpages with one another (which makes Diigo a fantastic tool!). That’s just my two cents on that. So happy social bookmarking everyone!