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=**Diigo - Bookmarking To A Whole New Level!**=

Diigo is the next best thing to bookmarking saved items when browsing the Internet today. People prefer social bookmarking more than saving bookmarks to your actual browser because it's easier to keep track of saved items. Not only can you save the bookmarks for yourself, but Diigo allows you to share your bookmarks with other members. Diigo is a free social bookmarking, research, and knowledge sharing tool created to shadow the ease of taking notes while providing a network for sharing and discovering data.

Diigo can allow you to take personal notes and highlight text information on certain web pages just as you would on a simple piece of paper. After that, you can then bookmark and save the information for further review, while adding tags so you can keep it organized. When bookmarking information, you can also choose to share with other members, friends, classmates, or even teachers to allow them to access those web pages as well. When sharing your bookmarks with others, they can view your notes and highlights, and add their own input by placing annotations in them. All the information on Diigo is also saved online and can be accessed by any other computer or Web browser (Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari), including mobile devices with web browsing capabilities. That means you can even access your bookmarks from your iPhone, Droid, or other smart phone device!

__**Features & Tools**__


 * Highlighting -** if your reading articles or web pages and find certain information worth nothing or sticking out at you, Diigo will allow you to digitally highlight the information just as if you had your own personal highlighter. The information is then automatically saved so at anytime you can comeback to that web page and the information will always be highlighted for you or other to see.


 * Note Taking -** Diigo's note taking feature is quite useful and can allow you to take notes on a web page similarly to the way in which you would add post it notes to a paper document. You can even add your own notes and move them to anywhere on that web page. You see an unobtrusive balloon that expands when rolled over with the mouse so it reveals all the notes and comments, including who made the comment and at what time.


 * Bookmarking & Saving Sources -** Once you have decided to make your highlights and notes you are ready to bookmark! When bookmarking the page, Diigo allows the ability to add tags to help keep everything organized and provides easy access and retrieval which is really convenient if you think about it. You can also choose to keep your bookmark private or let Diigo put your bookmark freely available to the public. When you bookmark with Diigo, your actually doing two things: Your saving the URL for the web page you are on, and you are also saving a cached image of the page so that you always have a copy of the original page, including the notes, highlights, and even the URL becomes broken or the content of the page is changed. Each bookmark you will save will give you direct URLs, any tags you had added, when the bookmark was saved, how many other Diigo users have bookmarked the page, the notes and highlights the user makes, and a link to the cached image. Also notice on the left side of your screen will you see the organizational breakdown of your bookmarks. You may see categories you tagged or were recommended and it could be anything from education to cooking.


 * Searching -** Another great thing Diigo provides is powerful search features for retrieving and locating data throughout your bookmarks. You may search the web page titles, URLs, tags, comments, highlights, notes, the full text of bookmarked pages, or all of these. This is easily accessible from the toolbar of your web browser. When you sign up with Diigo, I would highly recommend the Diigo toolbar download, because it is so convenient in your process of saving and adding other features such as the highlighting and note taking ability.


 * Sharing -** Diigo allows you to share other bookmarks, complete with annotations, to friends, classmates, teachers, or members. You can send the information to individuals even if they don't use Diigo. They will receive an e-mail with a link to the web page and a summary of any notes or highlights that were made. However, they will not be able to view the annotations in the context of the page without joining Diigo. For those who use Diigo, they will be able to see the web page with annotations, while maintaining the opportunity to add their own input.


 * Collaboration & Using Groups -** This allows users to join and create groups for sharing data. You may join any of the public groups that share personal interest, join groups with friends or classmates, or even create a group for a specific research project. This can allow all members of the group to have a central collection of data where each can contribute. Also each group has it's own discussion board where those members can conduct conversations, make announcements, and collaborate on assignments!


 * Lists -** This provides the ability to create lists of bookmarks where you can categorize and order bookmarks to your preference. It acts similarly to the Internet Explorer Favorites feature as an option for those who are uncomfortable with tagging items. Each of the lists is given its own unique URL, and you can choose to keep the list private or public.


 * Installing Diigo**

Diigo is absolutely easy to install whether your using Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Flock, or etc. The best option is a fully functional toolbar that will install without problems on Firefox, but may require administrative privileges for other browsers. Diigo offers a web-based "Diigolet" that provides limited functionality, but does not require installation. Diigo's toolbar takes up very little disk space, and if your not interested in having it viewable on your browser as toolbar, simply go to Tools or Settings in your browser and hide the toolbar. Again the toolbar is highly recommended and makes bookmarking so much convenient rather than opening up another tab in the browser and manually putting the bookmark on the Diigo page. The toolbar provides a function that will automatically save the page right to your account.


 * In Conclusion..**

Diigo can be your next best friend on the browser. It takes bookmarking to a whole new level, and it's ridiculously easy to use. Diigo is a great research tool that provides numerous services for organizing, annotating, and sharing data. These tools can make research and collaboration so convenient, and allows for a better flow of communication between friends, classmates, teachers, colleagues, and others. Another great thing about Diigo is that its an emerging technology in the classroom. This tool is really beneficial to students or anybody. If interested in using Diigo you can find out more information, watch videos, and try it out at []