Diigo - social bookmarking - who knew?

WOW!  Diigo is life changing for me - I have so many favorites saved on my IE browser it makes my head spin - now I have a great resource to organize them - it will make finding things so much easier! As time permits I plan to organize all my favorites with tags.  Thus far I have limited library, but I look forward to having time to expand it - maybe in the summer when things are a little less hectic!

Diigo, which stands for Digest of Internet Information Groups and Other Stuff and is pronounced DEE-GO. It is a social bookmarking site on steroids!  In order to get started and fully understand the tool, it is a good idea to watch the you tube video.  There are three steps to getting started 1) find anything of interest to you on the Web that you want to bookmark, 2) add a comment so others can see what you are interested in and your thoughts, and 3) organize the article(s) with tags so it is easy to find in the future.

Whenever you have emailed a link to a website you have participated in social bookmarking. Using Diigo, you save the bookmarks to the web, not your browser.  Diigo allows you the advantage to highlight and add sticky notes to the page as well as organize the page with tags and lists.  You can also make your social bookmarks public.

Web 2.0 pushes computing power off the desktop to the Internet. Web 1.0 websites were static, but Web 2.0 websites are dynamic and interactive. Users can now share information with each other.  Diigo is exactly the type of website that Web 2.0 refers to.

As far as add-ons, I typically haven't used them or rather haven't been aware I was using them.  I'm always suspect and don't want the annoyance of popup ads.  However, I realize now that not all add-ons are bad - some are necessary for multimedia content such as animations.  I recently switched to Chrome from Internet Explorer so will need to continue to research the add-ons available for Chrome.

As for the iste.nets-t standards addressed in this assignment, Diigo would meet standards 1c & d because it lends itself to collaborative work and also lends itself to locating, analyzing, and evaluating information resources.