Diigo Community

DIIGO: At first I wasn't sure this was going to be cool, but then I changed my mind. Diigo is a way to do research online and create a virtual "web report" of content and links which you can use later to collect information and/or share with others. Imagine doing research on a topic like "HTML programming" and bookmarking each page of relevant information with highlighted portions that you can evaluate later. If you can imagine it, then Diigo is where you sould spend some time. I dig it, you might too.

I downloaded the Diigo toolbar and have not looked back. I must say that Twitter, which is now the backbone of my PNL has made Diigo that much more relevant to me.

Think Delicous meets Facebook (less the spam). You can happily go about your business of tagging the web - but - with Diigo you can actually highlight specific parts of the text on the page that interested you. You can then add a post it note type comment.

But, the real power lies in the ability for Diigo to become a community. Now you can save your bookmark to a group who share a common interest (some form of EduTech in my case). Now your bookmark and comment are that much more important. You can share comments on bookmarks with your group! I am sure that I’ll find more uses for it as the months roll by. Join the Diigo Project Based Learning Group

Diigo lets you highlight and share the web. Diigo 3.0 promises a next generation social bookmarking and annotation service that enables users to increase research productivity, readily exchange information, and connect with others who share their interests and concerns. Forget mere bookmarking, instead highlight portions of web pages, add sticky notes and create your own personal digest of the web with your collection of highlights for leisure reading. Easily search, access, sort and share this collection later. The new Diigo combines the best of social networking, bookmarking, highlighting, and annotating to let people discover, save, and share the information that is important to them. Enter Social bookmarking 2.0!

Diigo - Diigo is bookmarking/tagging tool that allows you to share pages with others, bookmark/tag, review, and post to your blog(s).  It is a life-saver for managing discovered content.

Diigo refuses to be categorized as neither just another social bookmarking site nor a social network. And I would have to agree with them.

Its cool sounding and web 2.0ish enough without the need to know what it stands for.

One, you can use Diigo as a browser add-on very much similar to other social bookmarking sites such as Digg (sounds like eh?). But unlike Digg, Diigo lets you highlight a portion of a particular site that are of interest to you, attach a sticky note into the highlighted portion of the site, and when you return to the site, you can still your sticky notes. Sounds cool, right? It’s as if you were highlighting a book. Everything that you highlight, you can also search, access, sort and share from any PC or even on your iPhone.

Before class on Tuesday, I have never heard of the program Diigo.  When Professor Wolf mentioned that, it was a way to annotate online documents right on the web page.  He also explained how it is interactive, that you can read other annotations posted by others and others can read yours.  At first, I didn’t see myself ever using this after this class.  I find it easier to read documents once they are printed out rather than right off the screen.  I cannot concentrate when the documents are on the screen and I feel better writing notes in the margins with a pen and highlighting.   After using Diigo on the readings for Thursday, I realized that I might be able to use this tool in a classroom with students.  I would not use it for anything lower than the fourth grade, but it would be a great tool to integrate into lessons.  For instance, a teacher could set up a group in Diigo and have the students all join an account. Then for different lessons, such as a science lesson on the layers of the earth, the teacher could use an article or web page that reinforces the lesson.  The students would then go in and read the article and comment using Diigo.    I think students would benefit from this activity for several different reasons.  I think the fact that it is on the computer they would find it fun and different from reading out of a textbook and answer questions.  I also think that since it is interactive, the students can comment on one another’s thoughts taking the pressure off that comes with face-to-face conversation.  In addition, if this is done in the classroom using three or more computers, it is away for the children to interact but keep the noise level down while other students do independent work at their desks.  

同じことを、関連記事、ブログに繰り返し、 Diigoで全てを見直すと、 １つの話題でのまとめなおしになりそう。 段々と思っていた”ネットでデータ”=>”ネットがオフィース”に近づいてきた。 どんどんネットでデータに近づいている。

I switched to Diigo because it gave me sophisticated bookmarking, annotation features, but ALSO access to group/conversation features that didn't require me to get a Ning or YahooGroup or that kind of group. I have enough of those. Furthermore, I'm able to post directly from my Diigo bookmarking/ highlighting/ annotating to two of my blogs

Diigo: social book marking site, also allows users to annotate websites and share with others

The unforeseen laptop tragedy has given me a new appreciation as to why it’s useful to have your bookmarks stored online.

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.

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

Diigo: Next Gen Web Capture and Share

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.

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.

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.

Diigo is a social bookmarking site that is really giving the current champion, del.icio.us, a run for its money. It does everything that del.icio.us does (including simul-posting to your current del.icio.us account!) and so much more. From highlighting on a page, to adding sticky notes, to sharing bookmarks with groups, it really turns websurfing from a passive experience to a highly active one. Jennifer Dorman created the DEN group in Diigo a little over a week ago and there’s already over 50 members!

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

Great bookmark tool - Diigo I am using Diigo more frequently now to save my bookmarks. The more I use it the better it feels. Most liked featuresThe ability to tag bookmarksThe ability to form groupsTo share bookmarks at individual, group and public levelsTo find community bookmarks by tag, category, etc.To annotate a particular bookmarked page and share it as well.The integration with Facebook and TwitterThe toolbar greatly enhances the experienceThis can be a great tool for a quick internet research based collaboration project

At LOEX, I learned about a new tool called Diigo (www.diigo.com). It is similar to del.icio.us, but it allows users to add notes, bookmark and highlight. You can also send messages from it sharing links in Facebook, blogs, or twitter. They were recommending using it for research guides. This would allow students to personalize them. And librarians or faculty could add notes for specific classes.