Hello there! Thanks to all coaches for sharing bookmarks to the group, as it benefits everyone. When saving to the group, it's even more helpful to tag the saved bookmarks with helpful tags. For instance, when I bookmark a web 2.0 tool, I apply the tag web2tool.

It's not necessary to all use the same tags because you want the tags to be meaningful for yourself. However, not including any tags makes it hard to group and search for bookmarks.

Also, if your on a webpage and about to bookmark it, it's nice to select some descriptive text on the page first. That way when you save the bookmark, the selected text will be added to the saved bookmark.

~Michelle

Right, I didn't want to force folks into using pre-defined tags from the the Group Tag Dictionary. I mainly want to avoid the no_tag on bookmarks. I will check that it's set for the 2nd option - to suggest existing group tags.


C Mac wrote:
> Michelle,
> FYI - If you want, in the "Manage Group" area there is a "Group Tag Dictionary" that gives the group creator/manager 3 choices to deal with this dilemma.
> # Don't want to recommend tags
> # Use existing group tags as recommended tags
> # Use a pre-defined group tag dictionary as recommended tags
> Chris
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> Michelle Krill wrote:
> > Hello there! Thanks to all coaches for sharing bookmarks to the group, as it benefits everyone. When saving to the group, it's even more helpful to tag the saved bookmarks with helpful tags. For instance, when I bookmark a web 2.0 tool, I apply the tag web2tool.
> >
> > It's not necessary to all use the same tags because you want the tags to be meaningful for yourself. However, not including any tags makes it hard to group and search for bookmarks.
> >
> > Also, if your on a webpage and about to bookmark it, it's nice to select some descriptive text on the page first. That way when you save the bookmark, the selected text will be added to the saved bookmark.
> >
> > ~Michelle

If you're already using Delicious, you can also use Diigo without abandoning your delicous account! All you have to do is setup the Save Elsewhere function within Diigo and your links will post here and to your delicious account.

Go to your Diigo Dashboard and click My Diigo Tools.
Click the Save Elsewhere link on the left.
Check the Delicious checkbox and enter your Delicious account information.
Click Validate account.

You're all set!

I'm having some issues with this, but I know you can share your existing CFF bookmarks to the group by:
1) going to My Bookmarks
2) adding the tag you use for CFF bookmarks in the box
3) clicking the checkmark at the top to select them all
4) click Share to and choose the CFF Coach group.

I get a server busy message and I'm wondering if it's because I have a lot of bookmarks to share to the group? I was able to share the first 99 to a list with no problem but am not able to get them to the group which is frustrating. Also it seems you can't do them ALL at once - it's one page at a time.

Imagine, though, if we get this to work out then the links from the listserv will be here already. I love when I go to bookmark a site and it's already done!

If you're new to Diigo and nervous about switching from your well built del.icio.us account, don't be! You can import your bookmarks from del.icio.us to Diigo AND you when you bookmark things in Diigo - you can send them to your del.icio.us account AUTOMATICALLY :)

Click your login name in the upper right and choose Tools. From that screen, there is an import bookmarks link on the left.

Also on the left is the link to set your Diigo bookmarks to feed right to del.icio.us.

Always happy to help out, so let us know if you have problems.

If you are new to Diigo be sure to install the toolbar! It's very valuable to your Diigo use. It allows you to bookmark, annotate, share sites right from the browser.

Click on your login name in the top blue bar on the right to get to your profile and then click My Diigo Tools on the right.

Go to Home>My Groups and find the CFF Group. On the bottom right, click Edit under Alerts to change the setting.


Cathy DiPiano wrote:
> But where do I set the email settings? Ann and I were looking and I can't find the immediately, daily, weekly or never -- under Account I only see a "occassionally" send me email
> Thanks
>
> Michelle Krill wrote:
> > We're glad you're here! One thing you will want to notice is the notification settings. As the forum grows and bookmarks grow, you'll probably start getting emails about it. You can adjust how often you get these messages - immediately, daily, weekly, never.
> >
> > This is an important setting so you don't overwhelm yourself.

I'm looking to have a Coach group get started here, but want to be sure that the tags don't get too out of control. Under the manage Group area we can set up a tag dictionary to keep it more consistent. Let's work together to come up with some easy to use (but not too many) tagging method. Like best_practices, podcasting, video and then if they're web2.0 tools, we can add on _w2 at the end. Like podcasting_w2. When you save to group, the tag dictionary appears for the user to make tag choices.

Thoughts?