I have found that it is pushed my research into websites into a broader realm. I like how easy it is to save my favorites. I am able to place highlights on the site as well as sticky notes. I can form groups to share sites and discuss the common goal of the group.

I would like to use it as a place to discuss a book that we will be reading. I think it will be a good place for researching the topic and discussing the topic.

Diigo - Supercharged Social Networwking Tool

Darwin discovered natural selection, which went on to be made popular by Herbert Spencer as “the survival of the fittest.” Yesterday, I saw it being applied to Web 2.0. I have been a del.icio.us fan for some time now. del.icio.us is synonymous with social bookmarking, in fact, for all practical purposes, they invented it. In fact, I switched back from Firefox 3beta because there was no del.icio.us support.

Yet, del.icio.us never came out of Version 1 of this Web 2.0 phenomenon.

Along comes diigo. del.icio.us on steroids!

Changes the way you will use and share (and I really mean share) bookmarks. What they have done to social bookmarking is not rocket science, but they have done it. What they have done was never difficult, but being the one who does it first makes a lot of difference. I have happily switched from del.icio.us to diigo.com. And I am thrilled using it the last 18 hours.

Highly recommended!!!

Generate WebSlides from a RSS feed

WebSlides is a  presentation format to re-package and re-mix your content. Te slideshow format  can entices your readers to easily and quickly browse more page

The annotation layer on the WebSlides allows the WebSlides creator to further enrich the content through in-the-page highlighting, commenting and discussion

Great bookmark tool - Diigo

We had a blast meeting with David LaPlante, chairman of the State of Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and CEO of Twelve Horses and his crew, Mike Henderson, Earl Spriggs & Leilani Schweitzer. Twelve Horses is a full-service relationship marketing and messaging company specializing in designing interactive communication solutions.

It’s great knowing that many workgroups and companies are discovering and finding Diigo to be quite useful for both personal productivity and effective collaborative research… reasons that inspire us to create Diigo in the very first place. Besides “What / Why Diigo”, we also chatted about “Why Reno / Tahoe”

To find out the inside scope, be sure to check out our interview and podcast

Features of Diigo

As a personal research tool, you can use Diigo to,

• Bookmark, highlight texts and add sticky notes to any websites that you want. All changes are persistent - that means you can see the same highlighted texts when you are browsing through the same page again.

• Group a web page with tags and lists.


• Access all your research anywhere because all your bookmarks are stored online.


• Search for a bookmark by a full text search, sticky notes, tags and more.


• Share your research with others in multiple ways - send to blog, linkrolls, tagrolls, by email, post to other social bookmarking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, etc.


• Automatically post findings to your blog with all the comments, highlights, etc.


• Easily find the most popular content on Diigo to stay up to date with the hottest news.


• Get recommended content based on your activities in Diigo.


• Get related content while browsing the Internet - I recently stumbled a website with loads of useful comments from Diigo’s users.


• Import bookmarks from other social bookmarking sites to Diigo.


• The “Save Elsewhere ” feature allows you to simultaneously bookmark sites to Del.ico.us, Simpy or Ma.gnolia.

As a collaborative research platform, you can use Diigo to,

• Join or create a private or public group to share and collaborate with people of the same interests.


• Add private sticky notes that are visible to only members of the same group. This creates a platform for instant discussion (or debate!)

• Group tag - to enforce tagging consistency within a group, the group admin can set a list of recommended tags to be used by other team members.


• Get recommended news from your Diigo’s friends - from Diigo’s sidebar, you can also see who is currently reading the same page too!

Too many social networks. Too many social bookmarking services.

Social networks haven’t been around all that long, but already they have some negative associations. Social networks are black holes for sucking time, or, do I really need one more social network to add my information to and try to maintain? But just because the word ‘Social’ is in the same breadth as bookmarking, doesn’t mean that using a social bookmarking service is anything like your Facebook’s and your MySpace’s.

There are a lot of choices for sharing links out there, Delicious, Magnolia, Diigo, Furl, Blinklist and many other options and variations. I started out using Delicious, and briefly used Blinklist. But Diigo blows every competitor out of the water because it is more robust and built will groups in mind.

In their own words from their website;

Diigo enables effective collaborative research. You can easily share your findings, complete with your highlights and sticky notes, with friends and colleagues. A project team, a class, or a club can create a group on Diigo to pool relevant resources, findings and thoughts together.

As a collector, my knowledge of repair and restoration is in it’s infancy stage. I am a creative thinker and don’t easily understand schematics and electrical design. Reading articles written by experts on these subjects are like pulling teeth, I want the imformation I need, and I want it now. I have better things to do.

So, what if I could find a resource on monitor repair and have the section already highlighted that might be of particular interest? That is just one of the many features of Diigo, highlighting and annotations. What if I want follow another collector who I know is an expert at restoration, like Brian Jones? Well, let’s say Brian had an account and he was adding bookmarks, I could then browse what he was adding and his annotations and pick up some helpful insights into arcade cabinet restoration that I wouldn’t have had before. Instead of one person searching for information, now it’s two. Add in a whole community of users and you have a very target user base of information. The possibilities are limitless.

How do I highlight the important arcade information?

This another great feature of Diigo for bookmarking is the right click context menu. With Diigo installed, when you highlight a section on a page, your menu will come up with an option ‘Hightlight and Bookmark’.

Diigo, a combination Web research tool and social network. Like del.icio.us, Diigo provides a browser plug-in that lets you tag interesting information you encounter during your Web travels. But whereas del.icio.us begins and ends with social bookmarking, Diigo offers features useful for research.

You may highlight, annotate and bookmark information you find in a Web page. You may tag the information, as well as organize and share it. You may even produce a slideshow from the capture information.

Diigo further takes social bookmarking to the next level with community features that give members the ability to communicate with individuals or groups with similar interests.

With Diigo, you can Highlight the web and Add sticky notes too. You can also access and search your findings from any computers as well as create groups to pool resources for specific projects.

Enticed by all the positive comments from my twitter network and despite being a fan of del.icio.us, I recently decided to give Diigo a try. Last year, I was already looking at Diigo as an alternative to del.icio.us but I am now convinced that del.icio.us and Diigo can really be the perfect partners.

After downloading the Diigo toolbar, I transferred all my del.icio.us bookmarks to Diigo but decided to keep both to still be able to consult the bookmark recommendations from my del.icio.us network.

I have now set up Diigo to save all bookmarks to del.icio.us too, which was very straight-forward. I discovered that the automatic saves were not possible from del.icio.us to Diigo but saving my bookmarks from Diigo to del.icio.us meant that I did not have alter the tags published on My Languages blog.

I like the fact the each Diigo user has a profile, which makes networking a lot easier and personal. There is also a facility to join groups with similar interests in order to share bookmarks and directly send messages to “friends”. Yours and your friends’ recent bookmarks are listed as well as a list of recent visitors to your profile. The bookmarks can be public, private, tagged and untagged and there is a facility to share them as well as comments about them with friends and different groups.

Diigo groups are god to share resources and good practice. They are made up of people who choose to join others who have common interests

Social Connection Tools

“Increased engagement = Opportunity for Increased Learning”

Engagement is the why for these tools

Information Literacy & Sharing Discoveries

• delicious


• Diigo


• Twitter

Annotations on sites helps information literacy.

“Increased engagement = Opportunity for Increased Learning”

Engagement is the why for these tools

Collaboration Tools

• Wikipedia


• Kaltura–collaborative video editing


• Google Docs


• Diigo

Create a sharing community

Important to teach students collaborative skills to prepare for work

Teams are goal-directed

Diigo

• Set up a group


• Have everyone in the group highlight and add sticky notes to discuss the content


• Diigo’s dashboard has forums for discussion


• Automatic notification available so instructors can keep track of discussion


• Help connect learning in class to learning outside