Omnivorous Surfer

Diigo certainly isn't a newcomer, so many may already at least be aware of it. If you have never checked it out, I would heartily recommend that you do so. I, like many others, have been using delicious for some time, though I also had a Diigo account. The talk about Yahoo dropping delicious led me to do some more investigation of Diigo, especially since I was set to do a training on social bookmarking. After learning just how much Diigo has to offer, I have moved all my bookmarks to my personal Diigo account and have just received approval of my application for a Diigo Educator premium account in preparation for the training.

In addition bookmarking, Diigo lets you highlight and annotate web pages so that when you go back to them you don't have to remember what it was you thought was important. You can also share your finds and annotations with a Diigo Group. For example, there is an iPad iPhone and iPod Touch Users Group, and I've found some great information through my weekly email update of group activity. You can even have an ongoing dialog or conversation on a web page using the Comments feature. Diigo users can choose to use either a Diigo toolbar or a browser button to quickly add and annotate sites, or, of course, they can add bookmarks on the Diigo website itself.

Since I'm still exploring it myself, if you want to know more about the Diigo Educator premium account, check the FAQ page. It has all the features you would need, including privacy for students and no requirement of email addresses for adding student accounts.  It would be great for student researching.

While I still use Symbaloo as my go-to, everyday bookmark repository and browser homepage, I now catalog interesting and useful sites I find on Diigo.