BP4_Diigo

For my second Web 2.0 tool review, I chose Diigo.  Diigo is a social bookmarking tool that we first learned about last month.  I hadn’t really used Diigo, so I wanted to learn more about it.

Diigo’s three highlights are research, share, and collaborate.  Through a browser add-on, Diigo allows you to highlight, clip pictures, and add sticky notes to websites.  Pages that are bookmarked, along with highlighted sections, and clipped pictures appear in My Library.  

I was researching the Outer Banks 8k Race that is in conjunction with the Outer Banks Marathon.  Here, I highlighted the section I am interested in:

  

Here, I clipped a picture of the race logo:

 Here you can see My Library, with all of my bookmarks, the section I highlighted, and the picture I clipped.

Diigo also uses tagging to organize bookmarks and allow you to find them easily later.  There are multiple search options that allow you to not only search for websites, but also tags and annotations.  Diigo has both iPhone and Android apps, to allow access anywhere.  

To share with Diigo, you can build your own Professional Learning Network.  You can follow and be followed by people you choose in My Network.  There are multiple sharing options, so your research can be public or private.  You can also share a tag via an RSS feed.  Material can be shared with non-Diigo users by sending them an annotated link.

Collaborating in Diigo is done through groups.  You can share the items you find with annotations to the groups page, share snapshots, and have threaded discussions.  There is an email alert setting for group members.  This is my Diigo group for my CBR project.  I found an interesting article, so I added it to my CBR group.

 In the article, someone else has used Diigo to highlight and add sticky notes.

I think Diigo is a very useful tool, and could be used in any subject area.  With so many possibilities, Diigo is a great resource for both professional and personal settings.