Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows users to import bookmarks from their web browser or other bookmarking services, organize bookmarks into lists with tags, and highlight and annotate web pages. It offers advantages over traditional bookmarking by making bookmarks easy to share and collaborate on with other users through features like friends, groups, and communities. Diigo provides unique tools like creating slideshow presentations from bookmarks and special educator accounts to use the platform in classroom settings.
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Final Social Bookmarking Introduction To Diigo
1. Introduction to Diigo Brenda Rosenthal Created for: Introduction to Emerging Technology Course March 2009
2. Web browsers allow you to save the addresses (URLs) of favourite websites Advantages: Quick retrieval in the future Can organize into folders Disadvantages Computer specific Not easy to share Must manually save into multiple folders Social bookmarking overcomes these disadvantages
3. Social bookmarking website www.diigo.com An abbreviation for: " D igest of I nternet I nformation, G roups and O ther stuff." Described as Social bookmarking on steroids
5. Import from web browser, Delicious or other bookmarking site Add using: Diigo Toolbar Diigolet Post to Diigo Highlight & Comment
6. Lists Similar to folders Can list in a specific order Used to create presentations in Web際際滷s Tags Add keywords to bookmarks Can add multiple tags to one bookmark
16. Site Communities Aggregate users who annotate the same website Connect with other readers interested in the same site. Tag Communities
17. Converts Diigo bookmark lists, RSS feeds and blogs into slideshows Can add background music or voice narration Creates unique URL, or comes as a widget, so it can be posted or emailed Allows any Diigo user to highlight and annotate each page.油 Bookmark, tag, share, and clip content for future reference
18. Special accounts provided specifically educators Create student accounts for an entire class Diigo group for each classroom Privacy settings only teachers and classmates Ads limited to education-related sponsors
19. http://delicious.com/ Does not have Webslides Highlight & comment Educator Accounts Sharing via Twitter Group discussion forums Diigo allows saving to both Diigo & Delicious
20. Sharing of pharmacy & medicine bookmarks Pharmacist Resources Group Create Web際際滷s presentations Highlight & sticky notes
21. Diigo has been described as social bookmarking on steroids because of the extra features: Highlighting Sticky notes and comments Social networks Friends Groups Communities Presentations Educator Accounts