My Diigo account started in 2009 when many of my Tweeps were moving from Delicious to Diigo. There were many good features that made me think about making the big move. Yet, Delicious was comfortable, easy, and quick. So I left the account open in case things changed, but this was my first visit back since 2009. Even with the big scare earlier this year when Delicious was sold by Yahoo and there was a rumor that the site would shut down.Of course there are many reasons why social bookmarking is so important. On a personal level you have access to all of your favorite links on any computer or device with an Internet connection. Tags let you organize your links to find them faster. Tags also allow you to search through other users' bookmarks which is helpful when others ask you for links on various topics. All of the social bookmarking sites meet these basic goals, so the next step is to find out what makes Diigo different.
There are a few main features that make Diigo stand out from the other bookmarking sites. The first one is that you can add notes to the web site you save. This feature has never impressed me since I like to save links quickly and don't use notes in Delicious. Another feature I do like is Groups where an user starts a group with other users. In this group all of the users share notes and links based on one topic. Currently I belong to a digital citizenship and podcasting group. I could easily set up a group for my school so teachers could share sites they use in the classroom. The new feature I was excited about was the Diigo app for iPad. I currently save links to Delicious on my iPad, but it is a crazy process. The video about the app looks exciting.
Will I make the official move to Diigo now? That is unclear, but all of my links are now on Delicious, Diigo, and Google bookmarks under the same username: thetechtiger.
I am finding that I can use my name in a good many sites also, which makes it easy for me to keep up with me :)
ReplyDeleteYou are a techwiz! Thanks for sharing the similarities, now at least I am aware of those too in case diigo goes to charging or something.
@jessie Not only is using the same name easy to keep up with, but it is easy for others to find you across many web tools and/or social networks. That allows you to developed a well connected Personal Learning Network.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind comment. I am not sure if I am a wiz, but I have been for years to try to figure it all out. It is a work in progress. I have learned that are so many tools available that you have to figure out what works best for you and you don't have to jump to another one because it is new or "everyone" is using it.
As a person new to all social bookmarking, I also like the idea of the groups. I figure that as time goes by and I join more groups, I will have that many more people finding excellent math sites for me. Plus, seeing others ideas and opinions has always started leading me to new ideas.
ReplyDeleteOK.... Yet again, I had a post all written and it wouldn't post in IE. Here I go again....
ReplyDeleteAs you mentioned in your response to Jessie and as is evident in your post above, keeping up with technology is always and will continue to be a work in process.
You have been dedicated to this process for some time and those of us that are your friends and colleagues benefit because of it.
It is important to determine what works best for you and sometimes that does mean revisiting tools and resources that have been lying dormant. Nothing ever truly is "one size fits all." I know that I, too, have tried the tool that "everyone else" is using, only to find out that it isn't something that works for me.
I look forward to continuing to use technology that works for me and for the purposes where it works, not just for the sake of using it.