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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:54:46 -0000

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Instructify » Blog Archive » The new essentials: Top 10 school supplies for today's students

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:43:50 -0000

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In addition to standbys like pens, pads, and the ever-popular Trapper Keeper, today’s learners need a new set of school supplies, too. These tools enable students to take advantage of the new learning possibilities the Web has to offer, such as making research easier, or finding better, cheaper ways of doing what they’re already doing.

The new essentials: Top 10 school supplies for today’s students

Diigo — Invaluable for research, Diigo lets students bookmark and annotate webpages so they won’t forget why they bookmarked a page in the first place. They can also read other folks’ notes or annotations for further insight. Like any good Web 2.0 tool, Diigo lets them share their bookmarks and annotations with friends, too.

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Instructify » Blog Archive » Diigo: The "G" in the Name Stands for Groups

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:42:06 -0000

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Groups part of the name. In addition to having awesome annotation tools, it also has a lot of great ways to share information with others, formal and informal. First you can send bookmarks not just to other Diigo members you’re “friends” with (sort of like the for:username feature in del.icio.us), but also to emails (I use it to send stuff to my spouse who refuses to join a social bookmarking site), and to your existing del.ico.us account. That’s the easy stuff. You can also form more formal groups within Diigo. You can share bookmarks (with your notes) to a group, and it will appear in the groups bookmarks.

It doesn’t stop there though. There’s a full discussion forum feature, so you can have a discussion where you invite other individual Diigo members to discuss a bookmark or just ideas for that matter, or you can have a discussion within a Group you belong to. Think of how you could use that with students to facilitate discussions around online reading. It takes the social part of social bookmarking to the next level. Some teachers have even used this feature to form study groups for students.

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Instructify » Diigo: How do you say that?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:11:10 -0000

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Diigo is a social bookmarking tool, but so much more. In addition to letting you bookmark pages, you can also annotate them. There are two tools you can use for this, highlighting and comments. Highlighting lets you highlight the actual text on a web page, and stores the highlighted words with your bookmark.Think of how useful this can be for online reading assignments in a class (no wonder it’s caught on with some high school AP teachers).

In addition to highlighting text, you can leave comments behind, and even position them using floating sticky notes. You can use these to direct students to specific part of a page, or leave vocabulary or other tips explaining parts of text that may be a little complex for students. Just go to Diigo, sign up and download the Diigo toolbar (or lighter Diigolet bookmarklet)

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Diigo: Collaborative Bookmarking « Christian Saborío’s Blog

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:39:32 -0000

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Now, whenever I visit that page, the content I highlighted will always be there. But wait, there’s more. You can share add notes as well to your bookmarks, and you can share this information with ‘friends’ under your accounts or automatically post to groups you define.

This is a great way to share information, you could have people in your enterprise subscribe to the groups you define and then automatically share everything in a collaborative matter. For instance, you could create a group called “Virtualization” and once you find an interesting article, comment what you need and push it to the subscribed users.

This can only make the flow of collaborating information a lot smoother.

I just stumbled upon diigo, which follows the footsteps of del.icio.us but takes it up a notch. All I was looking, was for a way to highlight content on the web. The web is an incredible source of information, and while doing research, I find myself going back to bookmarked pages to find code snippets or some other info. Besides being able to bookmark a page, I wanted to be able to permanently highlight something on the page.

Diigo allows you to do this, and it is available with a Firefox plug-in (I believe they also have an IE plug-in as well). Here is an example of a site I was reading and wanted to highlight something:

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the new top 10 school supplies everyone should have « ::meanderings::

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:35:49 -0000

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Librarian of the Internet: The Language of 'Diigo'

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:15:27 -0000

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The catchy, quintessentially Web 2.0 name reads like a word from some obscure foreign language, but is actually an acronym for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff.” Though many enter the world of Diigo in a social networking frame of mind, the networking aspect is the core of the tool and only scratches the surface of Diigo’s capabilities.

For teachers, a useful feature is the “watchlist,” which enables you to know what’s going on across the network through specific tags, for example “education” tags. The social annotation feature is the best way to collect and share online information from anywhere, and you can write about that information with the blogging feature!

The first characteristic I look for in any tool designed to enhance productivity is usability; will using this save me time and effort? Diigo passes the “usefulness test” with flying colors. Plus, it has all of the information that’s important to you and allows you to share it with others educators. Perhaps this is what the author of the blog I’m Not Actually a Geek meant when he said, “It has changed the scope of what it means to be social.”

It seems as though every day I discover new search engines, bookmarking tools other Web applications that are intended to simplify the cluttered and overwhelming task of conducting Internet research. But let’s face it, most of these resources sound great in theory, but prove less effective in practice. Yet once in awhile I come across a tool that is inviting, intuitive and actually does what its mission statement says it will. Diigo is this type of tool.

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Might Diigo be your research tool?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:04:10 -0000

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But then I see regular upgrades, bug fixes and an active community piling in with suggestions. That all speaks to a service that is going places. It may not have the early mover advantage of delicious, but it is a whole lot better.

My ability to not only collate but also distribute content in a flexible manner gives me a much better experience within a single application. It also more useful in a social context. I can for instance tag posts that could be distributed to another blog. This means that if I’m a small practitioner partner or manager working on say tax, M&A and business advice, I can easily organize content that could be useful for a multitude of purposes.

I’m not usually a fan of browser sidebars but ever since I discovered Diigo, I keep its sidebar open. Why? Because I have a private list of logins for all the sites to which I contribute or to which I need access in a private list that I can access with a single click. That’s a huge convenience for me.

Diigo provides much the same capability but a whole lot more. Like delicious, Diigo allow me to share bookmarks with others who count me as ‘friends’ or with ‘groups’ but it also allows me to highlight stories and organize them for public or private consumption or with named people.

initially as a replacement for the delicious bookmarking service. Bookmarks allow me to pass on more content with short comments, effectively inviting the reader to read for themselves by clicking on third party links.

All professionals do research. It’s an integral part of our daily lives. Until recently, attempting to research, collate and then possibly re-use material has been pretty darned difficult. Even with things like searchable tax libraries, there’s still the problem of marshaling resources, especially in team situations, unless you are prepared to pay a significant premium. Enter Diigo

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6 Reasons Diigo is Better Than Delicious | Get A New Browser

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:03:40 -0000

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All in all Diigo wins hands down.

So ditch delicious, sign up, and join me.

1. It’s more social
Diigo has an extra level of social networking that Delicious does not provide - at least not in a usable manner. You can connect with people that have similar interests based on what you tag.

2. Annotations
The annotations feature is very cool. When you bookmark something, you can highlight notable sections to refer to later. And any other Diigo users can see your highlights when they visit the page if they have the toolbar installed.

3. Superior UI and Experience
Aside from all the snazzy features, the core “bookmarks” interface is much better than that of delicious - offering many additional features and better organization.

4. Microblogging
The microblogging feature in delicious never got a chance. This is the “daily post” feature that basically posts a digest to your blog of all the bookmarks you have saved over X amount of time. Delicious always had it as an “experimental feature”, for 3 years. Diigo does it so much better, allowing you to post only specific tags to your blog as well as providing more customization features.

5. Discovery
Now, this is something that delicious did fairly well but is pretty much a product of its large community. But Diigo does a great job at it too, allowing you discover what’s hot across the network but also within a group of friends. It also has a “watchlist” feature that allows you to keep tabs on certain tags in the network. And last, it shows you a river of bookmarks from your network - with a neat tag cloud to see what your community is tagging the most.

6. Better Toolbox
You can import, export. There are widgets, linkrolls, and tagrolls. They offer several ways to interact with the service - through context menu, toolbars, bookmarklets. There’s a Facebook app. You can “save elsewhere” too. So, if you still want to post stuff to delicious (let’s say you have a great community there), you can set that up. What this does is posts your new bookmarks to the other services whenever you post them to Diigo.

But honestly, even with their latest release - they have stopped innovating.

I checked out Diigo on the recommendation of Mike Fruchter sometime ago via FriendFeed. Since signing up I hadn’t really used it. But, the latest update to delicious broke my Daily Digest series - which was the final straw. And since Diigo allows you to import from Delicious, there really is no switching costs for me. That being said I have been extremely happy with my Diigo experience.

Here are six reasons Diigo is better than Delicious

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Inc.com - Technology review > Diigo: Collaboration beyond bookmarks

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:38:40 -0000

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Collaboration is one of the tenets of today’s web experience. The desire to share information, opinions and emotions adds tremendously to our online experiences. Social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us have been a great way to discover information on the web. But sharing bookmarks in this fashion has limited the level of collaboration we could get to. Diigo, a site that combines social annotation with bookmarking, enhances collaboration in a few interesting ways.

Highlighting the Important Stuff
Typically I bookmark a page because there’s something on it that’s important to me. With traditional bookmarking I would have to surf the page to find the nugget I want. Diigo allows you to highlight the sections you want to focus on. Additionally, you can add “inline sticky notes” to highlighted sections in order to capture your thoughts right on the page.

Sharing with Others
Annotating pages is great for an individual wanting to keep track of important parts of the page. But the real value of Diigo is when you share your bookmarks and annotations with others. Not only can they see the page with your annotations, they can add to it if you choose to let them. And you can annotate theirs. In fact, you can set up groups that allow many people to create real conversations from information found on the web.

Sharing Beyond the Page
Creating conversations right on the page is great, but it’s nice to send the conversation around the web as well. Diigo lets you easily email links and annotations to people you think would be interested in it. Also, you can create a blog entry from it, or even send it as a tweet in Twitter. This is powerful as you’re able to extend the reach of the conversation and open it up for further collaboration.

Diigo is packed full of functionality, and may take a bit to get used to. But if you’re looking to go beyond traditional bookmarking, you’ll want to check it out.

Diigo: Collaboration Beyond Bookmarks

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Words...: Social Bookmarking

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:47:25 -0000

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Diigo is one of the best tools a student could ever ask for. It helps a student alot because say for example the student is asked to do a research paper and needs the works cited, if he or she forgets to cite something and wants to go back to see where it was that they got the information from, all the student does is type the sentence and Diigo will automatically find the exact website that it is from. Unlike Google or Yahoo, Diigo takes you straight to the website and highlights the sentenced you have typed. Google and Yahoo give you millions of sites which include the same words, or many times just a few of those words and not in order. It is much harder and time consuming to use those sites to look for something. Diigo facilitates the work of people and it also saves you alot of time, which is a great advantage to students considering the fact that they sometimes have more than one assignment to complete.

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50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Writers | Best Colleges Online

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:57:12 -0000

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Diigo: Use this tool to organize research material just like you would in a book or journal. Diigo lets you add highlights and sticky notes to any website.

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Family Matters » Blog Archive » Diigo on Facebook

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:19:19 -0000

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As the genealogy community on Facebook develops, we are seeing many ways this platform can support us beyond the obvious socializing and networking features. One Facebook tool we can all use is the Diigo application. If you’re not familiar with Diigo, it’s an online bookmarking system that allows you to bookmark your favorite sites and pages with tags for quick retrieval, highlights to focus on the content you find useful, notes to add to the content and the ability to share with others. I’m just touching the surface of Diigo’s usefulness - as you’ll see in the further reading section below.

The Diigo application on Facebook only displays bookmarks - yours and your Diigo friends. You will see the bookmark information including any notes or highlighted text associated with the bookmark by clicking the Expand link. Following any of the bookmark’s links will take you out of Facebook. If you click on one of a bookmark’s tags, it will take you to your bookmarks tagged with that tag at the Diigo site.

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Diigo: A better way to surf the Internet | Technology Questions

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:45:50 -0000

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Diigo, pronounced Deego, is not just another social networking site. Diigo is a research tool and a means to keeping notes while searching the Internet. Founded in 2005, Diigo continues to mature as the premier internet-based research tool.

For well over a decade, my bookmarks have been machine specific and usually destroyed and lost when I've changed machines. Sure, people have options to save, import, and export bookmarks but I've never wasted my time. My philosophy has been, "If I can't find it again then it wasn't that important."

Silly, I know.

Today, though, there is something compelling about the service Diigo that might change my Internet surfing behavior. Two years ago, Diigo was marketed as a research tool. This year, Diigo is marketed as a social bookmarking tool.

I'm not really into social websites - except FriendFeed. The idea that everything must be shared is total nonsense. I do not share all of my bathroom visits and cannot bring myself to believe sharing my Internet surfing habits are any more valuable than the waste products being flushed down the pipes. Still - I was curious enough about Diigo to activate the account and try out highlighting, commenting, and writing this blog post.

First, I added the Diigo toolbar to firefox. Click, done. Setting up the "Send to Blog" was just as easy. I simply added the URL, name, and password. Diigo did the rest.

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Lizzyville: Diigo: Bookmarking Heaven

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:22:39 -0000

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Diigo: Bookmarking Heaven

Diigo is going to change all that: you're given a wonderful little sidebar for your browser, you can create bookmark groups, tag things, etc., and do all the normal things that Delicious let you do. But the revolution is in the extra parts: post-it notes and highlighting capability for any web page anywhere. Unbelievable. It is rocking my world.

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Diigo, New Bookmarking Service Opens | FastCompany.TV

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:48:37 -0000

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I Dig (not Digg) Diigo (not Digg-o) ~ Finally found the Web 2.0 social tool I love

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:42:36 -0000

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That would be Diigo. Spelling D-i-i-g-o. Two eyes? Two 'i's"? Whatever. Spell it right and then go get it.

Diigo is one of the few Web 2.0 tools that I find both useful and utterly cool. It actually has value and purpose, because it best represents social bookmarking - which has value and purpose. Lots of it to someone who lives on research -feasts on knowledge and spits out judgments which may be questionable at times (many times) but at least are raising information-soaked questions, not judgments devoid of content.

I Dig (not Digg) Diigo (not Digg-o)

I think I finally found the Web 2.0 social tool I love. It has captured my heart. It's put a spring in my cerebral step. Its made my life easier because it is sooooo easy to use and so many people who I've invited to this particular dance have come. This is a dance that has a bit of hip hop, a little paso doble, a bit of the ballroom and some jazz. This is easily the best social bookmarking and research tool that I've run across on the web and given that I'm in a geeked out frenzy most of the time trying out zillions of tools that's saying something big time. Most of them are tried, not bought if they cost, and discarded within about 2 days which is my ADD-tested and approved patience limit.

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BYOL Diigo Session | BlogWalker

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:19:24 -0000

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Alice Mercer and Jennifer Dorman are leading this hands-on Diigo session.

Classroom idea: set up a “tag” dictionary - it’s one of the options available when you create Diigo groups. Makes for easy evaluation: search a tag and then you’ll see which students have annotated the site.

Concept of tagging vs. concept of list - You can switch list into slideshow presentation of the websites you have chosen from Diigo. The pages are “live,” not just images.

Diigo = critical literacy tool. Use for reflective writing. When searching a topic, use Diigo instead of Google to provide students with previewed, reviewed sites.

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Beth's Second Life: OMG! I need Karma

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:11:52 -0000

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Diigo is better than all the others. I dont know how to explain it, but it just does more. You can highlight, comment, share, twitter, etc. It has a great tool bar, too. Mostly, I hate add on tool bars, but this one is actually easy to use.

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Family Matters » » Diigo Tip: Meeting Like Minds

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:14:24 -0000

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For each of those users, I receive a display similar to mine shown here with the addition of a Common Tags category showing tags I have in common with them. Each user’s display includes a Common Stuff link which will display the friends, groups, tags and bookmarks we have in common. If any user appears to be interested in the same areas I’m researching, I can use Diigo to send them a message and/or a friend request. That could kick off a conversation allowing us to explore what else we have in common and perhaps even share our research efforts.

Use the By Tags search option to find users who are adding specific tags to their bookmarks - like Huguenot or Bavaria or Civil War. Search People gives you many ways to find like minds who may be able to help your research efforts.

Networking. Without visiting a gas station. Life is good.

If you want to find others researching the same people, places, things that you are, Diigo can help you make connections. Using the Search People feature, you can find people researching the same sites and topics you are.

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