1. Social Bookmarking & Annotation With Diigo
Social Bookmarking & Annotation With Diigo
Jennifer Carrier Dorman

2. Social Bookmarking in Plain English

3. Diigo Diigo = Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff
Diigo is two services in one
it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand,
and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.

4. Social Bookmarking Evolved - Diigo

5. Get the Most Out of Diigo
Introduction to Diigo
Diigo Tutorials (text & video)
Help Center

6. Diigo – Personal Research Tool
Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any web page
Organize your bookmarks and annotations by tags or lists.
Access and search your bookmarks anywhere, by tags or by full-text
Multiple ways to share your bookmarks and annotations
Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any web page
Diigo highlights and sticky notes are persistent in the sense that whenever you return to the original web page, you will see your highlights and sticky notes superimposed on the original page, just what you would expect if you highlighted or wrote on a book!
Organize your bookmarks and annotations by tags or lists.
Tags and lists are two different ways to organize information. Tags are best for diverse and disparate information, while lists are best for focused information.
Access and search your bookmarks anywhere, by tags or by full-text
Since all your bookmarks and annotations are stored in your Diigo account on the web, you can access them from any computer with web access. Your web pages are cached so they will always be available. You can search your collections not only by tags, but also by full-text, including highlights, sticky notes, and the full-text of the web pages.
Multiple ways to share your bookmarks and annotations
You can publish your findings to your blog by using the one-click "Send to Blog" feature, by setting up automatic daily posting, or by adding linkrolls and tagrolls to your blog. You can send multiple annotated and highlighted pages at once by , and the recipients will see exactly what you are referring to. You can also easily post to other websites such as twitter, facebook, delicious, etc.

7. Diigo – Collaborative Research
Diigo groups are ideal for team research
Pool and organize resources using group bookmarks
Group sticky notes are great for discussion
Group tag dictionary to enforce tagging consistency
Diigo groups are ideal for team research
If you have any need for team-based research, be it a class, a club, an interest group, or a work group, Diigo groups are ideal for you. A Diigo group can be public, private or semi-private.
Pool and organize resources using group bookmarks
When a member of a Diigo group comes across a web page, he can highlight, tag, and share it to the group. In this way, group bookmarks become a repository of collective research. Group member scan also vote up bookmarks so important information stays on the top.
Group sticky notes are great for discussion
When adding sticky notes, you can make them private, public, or viewable only by members of a certain group. With group sticky notes, group members can interact and discuss important points right on the web page, preserving the original context.
Group tag dictionary to enforce tagging consistency
The group administrator can define a set of recommended tags for the group to help enforce tagging consistency.

8. Diigo – Social Content Find the most popular bookmarks on any subject
Subscribe to the most recent bookmarks by tags, sites, or users
Get recommended content
Get related content while browsing
Find the most popular bookmarks on any subject
Quite often this is an easier way to find quality resources on a given subject than using search engines
Subscribe to the most recent bookmarks by tags, sites, or users
This is a great way to keep track of the latest information on topics you are interested in.
Get recommended content
Based on your bookmarking activities, we find content personalized to your interests
Get related content while browsing
While you are reading a web page, the Diigo sidebar shows you who else has bookmarked that page or that site, and what other similar pages and sites they have bookmarked, giving you a great way to find related content.

9. Diigo – Knowledge-Sharing
You are what you annotate.
Keep in touch with friends through content
Find and connect with people having common interests
Multiple ways to connect with people

11. Registering for Diigo
Creating Your Account

12. Join Diigo

13. Create Your Account

14. Dealing with email accounts
Create a legitimate/base gmail account at (e.g.
Use base account to "trick" web applications that require e- mail address to create user accounts.
The way it works is that you add a + and a student name/alias after the gmail user name (e.g. etc.)
For instructions visit:

15. Create Your Profile
Create a Diigo avatar

16. Avatar Options for Students

17. Add Basic Information
Add some basic information or elect to skip

18. Find Friends
Search you address books for friends already using Diigo or skip

19. Activate Your Account
Diigo will send you an requesting that you click on a link to verify your account

20. Activate Your Account
Click on the link or copy/paste the URL address to verify your account

21. Getting Started with Diigo

22. Getting Started With Diigo
After verifying, you will be invited to install the Diigo toolbar and learn more about Diigo’s capabilities

23. Installing the Toolbar
Download the toolbar.
Click the "Install Diigo Toolbar" button.
Run DiigoToolbar.3.0.exe.
Restart your browser.

24. Not Allowed to Install Toolbars?
Diigolet is not as feature-rich as the Diigo toolbar, but it can be set-up by simple drag-and-drop - no download or installation needed, and it works for all major browsers.
Diigolet is a "super bookmarklet" that allows you to highlight and add sticky-notes, in addition to simple bookmarking.

25. Post to Diigo Browser Button

26. Import Bookmarks from the Web
Already have bookmarks hosted on another social bookmarking site? Diigo will import all your bookmarks.

27. Import Bookmarks from Browser

28. Export Bookmarks

29. Cross-Post Your Bookmarks
Aren’t ready to give up that Del.icio.us account? Diigo will cross-post all your bookmarks.

30. Bookmarking and Annotating Content with Diigo
Processing the Web

31. Using the Toolbar

32. Annotating with Diigo

33. Publish Your Bookmarks
Share Your Research Across the Web

34. Daily Blog Post
enables you automatically post entries to your blog(s) every day containing your latest Diigo annotated bookmarks

35. Adding Blogs to Your Diigo Account
You can add multiple blogs to your Diigo account

36. Creating Blog Post Jobs
Select your job preferences and submit

38. Blog Directly from Diigo
So now as you browse along, you simply highlight and add sticky notes on anything that interests you, and, afterwards, you can easily incorporate your highlights and notes to your blog with one-click "Send to Blog".
All you have to do is add your blog to Diigo

39. Send to Blog, Twitter, Facebook

40. Twitter This
When you check “Twitter This” when bookmarking, you can cross post to your Twitter feed

41. Widgetize Your Diigo
Diigo has built-in widgets to broadcast your Diigo Tags and Links

42. Diigo Tagroll

43. Diigo Linkroll http://www.diigo.com/tools/linkrolls
Display links that are tag(s) specific and/or with your annotations only.
When clicking on the bookmarks displayed, your readers will see your annotations (if any) overlayed on top of the original web page, making it a very effective way to share your findings and views.

44. Customizing Diigo Linkroll

45. “Add to Diigo” Widget
Encourage people to add your page / blog post to Diigo, and help to increase exposure for your site / blog posts and drive more traffic to your site / blog!

46. Tag & Site Communities, Searching
Diigo Features
Tag & Site Communities, Searching

47. Site Communities http://www.diigo.com/community/sites
Aggregate users who annotate the same website & build meaningful reader communities
Discover and connect with other readers interested in the same site.

48. Watchlist & WebSlides View
Site Communities
Watchlist & WebSlides View

49. Tag Communities http://www.diigo.com/community/tag
Aggregate users who annotate sites with the same tags
Discover and connect with other readers interested in the same site and explore related tags and groups

50. Tag Communities

51. Searching with Diigo
Diigo has a built-in search engine that lets you search for bookmarks, people, and groups

52. Diigo Search Results

53. Contacts, Contact Lists, & Messages
Diigo Features
Contacts, Contact Lists, & Messages

54. Contacts Lists
You can organize your contacts to lists to make it easier to share resources and conversations

55. Contact Lists
Add contacts to a list

56. Messages / Conversations

57. Diigo Features
Discover New Learning

58. Discover New Content
Use the Discover features to track your friend’s bookmarks, your site Watchlists, and bookmarks recommended to you by your learning community

59. Watchlist
Use the Watchlist to subscribe to tags, sites, and users

60. Grow Your Learning Network
Find other users who are similar to you based on bookmarking and annotation patterns

61. Diigo Features
Lists and Groups

62. Diigo List

63. Create a List

64. Publish a List

65. WebSlides Presentation View

66. Interact through WebSlides View

67. Create a WebSlides Presentation
To create WebSlides, users simply enter a feed or list of bookmarks and add background music or voice narration.
By clicking button, the list transforms into a slideshow, bringing Web pages and user comments to life.
All you and your reader need is just a web browser.

68. Ways to Create a WebSlides

69. WebSlides for Bookmarks

70. WebSlides for RSS Feed

72. Diigo Groups
Diigo Groups Video Tutorial

73. Diigo Group

74. Group Bookmarks

75. Joining and Creating Groups

76. Create a Group

77. Management
Group moderators can customize the level of privacy and accessibility for the group

78. Managing Group Members

79. Invite New Members

80. Managing the Group Forum

81. Tagging Protocols
Diigo Groups Video Tutorial

82. Group Tag Dictionary

83. Security Features for Teachers and Students
Diigo Teacher Console
Security Features for Teachers and Students

84. Teacher Console

85. Class Group

86. Ad-Free Status for Class Groups

87. Add Members

88. Adding Students WITHOUT E-Mails

89. Add Students with Diigo Accounts

90. Print Member Login Information

92. Manage Members

93. Student Account Security Settings
Students added to a class group by the teacher automatically become friends to each other
No one else (except their friends) is allowed to send a friend request or message to them
essentially Diigo presets the privacy setting at for these student accounts
Although each student account has a profile, the top portion (about me / info) won't be shown.
The teacher can instruct students to mark everything private (only shareable by the group)

94. How Are Educators Using Diigo?
Annotate curriculum documents and add stickies to show where tech integration is happening and could happen. That could be annotated for a group of curriculum writers.
Annotate state education agency memos for your administrators. Among a team, share the implications of the ideas in the memo, the most important points, and so on.
Create a slideshow of clickable web sites grabbed from your bookmarks.
Publish your annotations/comments to your blogs or embed linkrolls and tagrolls onto a wiki or website.
See for more integration ideas

95. What’s Coming Up with Diigo?
Educational domain for Diigo
Reviewed and approved teacher-plus accounts separate from the main Diigo site
Only students invited by teachers will be able to join EduDiigo groups