I joined Chris' allmusic group and did a search for a song and shared it with the group. Diigo was very easy to use, but I have discovered that highlighting and notes are a little trickier to do on a page that has its content made up entirely of links. You have to be careful not to click the link while highlighting or you will lose what you are trying to do. That was a problem with this music website in particular, and I had similar issues with Ivy Tech's pages that I used for my library's bookmarks.

Sometimes the extension I added to Google Chrome did nothing when I clicked the bookmark link for Diigo. I gave up on a few websites that I had this problem on, so it must not like certain types of links. Ivy Tech's jobs website at http://jobs.ivytech.edu was one that Diigo did not let me bookmark, so I bookmarked the HR page instead.

I love the ease of being able to bookmark and reference links later straight from my web browser. I cannot see myself going to the Diigo website itself very often, so the extension and bookmarking as I browse is the thing I like the best about Diigo. I had used Diigo before with the Brownsburg Public Library, as I mentioned in another posting for this assignment. It is easy to forget and get lazy on, and that is sort of what happened with our work account at the library that the reference staff was to share.

Diigo in general is something I would use again and recommend to others, and I am glad I had this chance to explore it some more than I had before.

I made a group called "Job Searching 101" http://groups.diigo.com/group/job-searching-101.

When I was job searching prior to landing my current job in April, I maintained a blog on the job search process so creating a group on this topic seemed like a natural fit for me. The two activities that I posted have their own forum, and I also shared the links I used as examples in each forum.

First, I want people in this group to share websites with job postings that they have found helpful in the job search process.

Second, I want people in this group to share websites that offer career related advice and resources. This could be anything from interviewing to resumes to cover letters.

This is a public group so anyone can join.

I added links from within the Ivy Tech Community College website (where I work). I also created an Ivy Tech list. I think that I would find bookmarking and notes helpful for creating lists that I can share with faculty members or students that are new to Ivy Tech so they can easily find the basic things they need to get up to speed. My library can be found here: http://www.diigo.com/user/austroud

I installed the Google Chrome extension and love it. It makes it so easy to add bookmarks to my library as well as highlight and add notes. In the research stage of writing a paper I could really benefit by using Diigo and quickly adding readings I check out to my library. Then, I can easily reference them and sort through them later once I start actually writing my paper.

At the Brownsburg Public Library I tried to get the entire reference staff to use an account on Diigo I setup so we could have one place to access commonly used resources on the Internet when we were helping patrons. However, my manager and I were really the only ones on board with it and it never took off.

I decided on the short poem Dreams by Langston Hughes. I have very little free time these days and often feel overwhelmed between school, work, and life in general (like posting this assignment late) but it is important to keep my dreams alive and moving forward. If I allow my dreams to die, I would have nothing left to look forward to or strive for.

http://diigo.com/0ldgq

I find poems particularly powerful when they relate to my daily life and how I often feel. I want to have a connection and be able to relate to it. Poems in general are interesting to me because it shows all of the thoughts and human emotions that are timeless and people have been experiencing for many years.