Diigo – you are what you annotate

With a plethora of bookmarking and tagging domains online it can be difficult to know where and how to start. I have slowly developed a routine for collating, highlighting and annotating results from skipping through the pixelated universe and it is thanks in part to the combinational collation tactics of StumbleUpon.com, Delicious.com and Diigo.com.

The interactivity of reading, tagging, storing and sharing is enhanced by reactive platforms and intuitive programming – the new V3 Diigo brings us one step closer to coalescence.

Reading becomes social when information, knowledge and community come together. I find the ability to highlight text and annotate with sticky notes retains contextualization that is often lost with ‘clipping’ and iteration with group research becomes a high yield and rewarding task.

Basics of Diigo

Connect, discover and share:

• Bookmarking is enhanced with highlights and sticky notes – which are retained on the page waiting for your imminent return
• Bookmarks and annotations can be organized by tags or lists
• Create groups to pool resources for specific projects with private or public bookmarks. I find this a great way to pool resources whilst researching for a project with colleagues. The group administrator can define a set of recommended tags for the group to help enforce tagging consistency.
• Access and search your bookmarks anywhere, by tags or by full-text
• Find the most popular bookmarks on any subject. It is often the easiest way to find quality resources on a given subject – more efficient than search engines – in the right hands
• Sharing content is an great way to learn from your friends. Diigo provides multiple ways to aggregate and share information with friends on Diigo and elsewhere, with varying degrees of non-intrusiveness.
• The sidebar search tool has been enhanced to facilitate searching within tags, lists and URLs

Advanced Diigo review

Overall a lot of new enhancements. I continue to use a combined approach with Diigo.com being the first tagging point for annotation, highlighting and primary bookmarking. These tags are automatically uploaded to my delicious account where I prefer the group keyword searching. Specific posts or sites to share with more diodotic colleagues is through my StumbleUpon account (Ratio 1:1:5)

Short How-To Series:

• Bookmarking
• Highlighting
• Page Comment
• Sticky Note

Be sure to download the Diigo Toolbar and explore the options to post directly to your blog, export bookmarks to delicious and magnolia and utilize the enhanced Linkrolls. Some great tips for Diigo use are found on this great post from MakeUseOf.com