Diigo

Social Bookmarking with Diigo Go to the website here. @http://www.diigo.com

What is Diigo? This is a social bookmarking tool. The name is actually an acronym that stands for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff"

How do you keep track of websites? Bookmarking tools that some of us have used are only accessible on the computer where you create the bookmark. Other bookmarks can be accessed away from home but only by you. Diigo opens up the act of bookmarking pages to other possibilities - such as sharing with individuals or groups in public or private ways.

You can set up an account and when you find pages on the web that you want to save, you create a bookmark with tags to help you sort and search for the bookmark. These can be public or private. If you use public bookmarking, others can follow the bookmarks you save - whether you share all your bookmarks or a certain group. You might share bookmarks with your colleagues all researching a similar interest. You could share the bookmarks with students so that all of the class has access to the same resources. Rather than handing out a page with a list of website addresses, they only need to go to Diigo and connect with the list or group that you have set up to share bookmarks. You can join groups of other users who have similar interests and this way you can be introduced to new websites that are relevant to you.

You can tag a website with a name or word that is very specific. "mruef3" could be a way to flag all the sites you want to review for your EF 3 class. ptlinc may be all the resources for your part time LINC class. SamH could be all the sites you want to share with a colleague.

Another feature of Diigo is the highlighting feature. On the page you have saved, you can highlight parts of the site.

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For a collection of YouTube tutorials from Diigo, check out the YouTube channel for diigobuzz.