Social Bookmarking Using Diigo

Social Bookmarking using
Digest of Internet Information,
Groups and Other stuff.

In 40 minutes...
what is Social Bookmarking
how can it be used in an academic environment
saving/accessing bookmarked websites from Seneca or any other place using Diigo
using Diigo as a research/collaboration tool
creating a Diigo account
upgrading to an Educator account

Bookmarking

Annotations are hard to share and track
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Is it possible to easily access and share your info?

Favourites and Folders can be overwhelmingCan’t easily take it home with you or share it!

Highlightingon your monitoris tough
Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/LG_L194WT-SF_LCD_monitor.jpg

Social Bookmarking using Diigo
store and share bookmarks to your online resources
access and add bookmarks from anywhere with internet access (including mobile phone)
use tags not folders

Social Bookmarking in Academia
Private
Role-Specific
Project-Specific
Public
Adapted from: http://rossdawsonblog.com/socialbookmarking_diagram.jpg

Tags: one-word descriptors (like Google keywords)
flowers
guitar
poets
peace
lyrics
love
track online sources
add/delete/rename as required
find other publications with same/similar tags

Research
archive web pages from a particular point in time, save multiple versions and make them searchable
organize your items by tags or lists
highlight in multiple colours
use sticky notes that can be private or shared
sticky notes tied to a highlight or freely positioned and resizeable as a floating note
Source: diigo.com

Collaboration
share links to archived and annotated web pages via email, Twitter or Facebook (no special software required to see comments)
set up Groups to comment, tag and collaborate on projects
Privacy control: private, public or shared with a group (semi-private)
Source: diigo.com

Using Diigo – Sign Up
use your Seneca email address
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Adding the Toolbar for greater versatility
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