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On Tuesday this week, a teacher told us about social bookmarking. He referred to a website I was really curious about, and had trouble to find the name : Diigo. After a little research, I discovered that it means “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff”.
What is social bookmarking by the way? All I knew was that I wanted to learn about it and do it. So let’s !
Social bookmarking is a tool for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. People can comment on websites, tag, or evaluate websites, which create a folksonomy.
But Diigo seems to be way more than that, at least that’s what they say on the website.

With Diigo, you have several potential uses to organize the contents, like listing or tagging.
The basis is that you can highlight text entirely or partly in multiple colors and put “sticky” notes on web pages. When you come back to the page, they remain. You can archive the pages, annotate them and organize them. Once you’ve done that you can access from anywhere – the iPhone application is coming soon ! Now what about the “social” aspect? Well you can create a group, for company, class or teams. Then, you can share your pages and annotations with others, and even interact with people on the web page or in the group. No more copy/paste, only few clicks and you’re done.

Ok I’m convinced, I’m joining Diigo. I create my account and activate it, nothing special. Except I could have wait forever - the mail arrived directly in my junk email box !
I now have a library.
I have to download the Diigo Toolbar. It’s a plug-in compatible with Firefox or Internet explorer. Really simple and quick !