Social Bookmarking: Diigo

Our previous blog post on Social Bookmarking (a way of saving, organising and sharing your favourite websites to access them wherever you are) showcased Delicious. There is another Social Bookmarking site with additional features you may find useful...

Diigo is proving to be a worthy contender in the Social Bookmarking arena. It has all the functionality of Delicious (tagging, organising, sharing websites) with added extras:

* Highlighting: Diigo has a highlighting tool, you can highlight parts of websites, so when you revisit them you can see at a glance what it was you were interested in

* Sticky notes: you can add sticky notes with your thoughts on the subject to a webpage, other Diigo users can add to this, creating a conversation

* Annotated links: you can send an annotated page to those not on Diigo, complete with highlighting and sticky notes

* Sharing links: you can add bookmarks to your blog, Facebook or Twitter easily

* Archive: with Diigo you can archive snapshots of webpages and whole webpages

* Free: best of all, you get all this for free!

We couldn't list everything Diigo does here, but watch the tour on the Diigo website and be impressed, we were!

Interested in Social Bookmarking?

Would you like to:

* save your bookmarks and access them on the Web wherever you go?

* share your bookmarks with your friends, colleagues and peers?

* find your bookmarks easily with a keyword search using a simple tagging system?

* see which bookmarks your friends, peers and colleagues find useful?

Then watch this excellent tutorial - it will help you get started http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU. The tutorial is created by http://www.commoncraft.com/.

Although there are several Social Bookmarking sites on the Internet that will allow you to do this the tutorial focuses on http://delicious.com/