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Actually I love using lots of different technology to help me in my research, especially since my ethnography work last year was mostly cyberethnography. Personally, I've taken to using del.icio.us, Diigo, and Scrapbook (I love this one), extensions for Firefox, 30 Boxes, NetVibes, and Google docs and spreadsheets (helpful because I don't own a copy of Word but it's on every one of the computers at uni), Google Notebook, and iGoogle (personalised google page).

About a year ago I heard about a social bookmark site called Diigo.  I saw it as another Delicious clone but figured I would look at it a bit deeper it just seemed to be more.  It was a good decision! Since that time I have been using Diigo and their tool bar every day.   I use it to keep sites I want to find very easy to find and sort and search.  I use it to market my own sites and to put my sites into all the other top book mark sites including delicious.  I also use it to improve my daily productivity and the beauty is once set up it takes up no extra time to use it.  It becomes seamlessly integrated into your daily efforts. I just did three training Videos on Diigo for our paying members, they are called, Social Bookmarking With The Diigo Tool Bar  Using Diigo To Mass Social Bookmark Web Sites Cool Marketing Productivity Features With Diigo If you don't know about social book mark sites these videos will teach you what you need to know.  If you do know about them then these videos will take your efforts to a new level.  The social bookmark sites are going to become the Google, Yahoo and Ask.com's of tomorrow so now the time to get into them and build up your presence.

Another somewhat similar service is Diigo, which also has plug-ins for the major browsers that allow you to highlight content in a page (in Diigo's case it becomes yellow) and tag it with keywords. You can also add what amounts to a sticky note with comments, and then save it to Diigo's servers, where it is shared with other users. You can then go back to your account and see not just your own comments or highlighted sections from a site, but also the highlights and comments from any other Diigo user who also saved the page.

But what if saving a link isn't enough? Sometimes when you're researching a particular subject, you might want to keep more than just a link and a paragraph of text from a particular page.