A closer examination of what Diigo can do for you & Google Doc collaboration

For our Groups Google Docs collaboration I had a closer look at Diigo as I wanted to find out a little more on what this social bookmarking tool can do.  I haven’t used many social bookmarking tools before apart from my recent go at adding a new topic into my workplace’s Diigo discussion group (see previous blog on this). 

My first attempt was fairly restrained and I only pasted in a news item and added tags but I wanted to look a little more closely into the uses of Diigo.

First thing is everyone seems to pronounce the word Diigo differently – I believe it is supposed to stand for ‘Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff’ - and is pronounced ‘de-go’.

At the start you will need to do the usual thing and set up an account which will enable you to start saving material (images, docs, notes etc) into My Library. You will also have access to My Network – this is where you may choose to follow someone.  I had previously set up an account but at present I don’t have anything saved in these as yet - I'm working on it. However I do have my work places discussion group saved under My Group though.

The introductory video provides a good overview of what Diigo can do and seems to do an incredible amount and it is continuing to expand.

The tool has evolved from a simple bookmark and tag tool into one that you can highlight key passages, add stickynotes with comments, attach you own notes, documents and images.  

All your bookmarked items are stored on the Diigo cloud and therefore you can access you account and items from anywhere. It can be used on Android, ipad, iphone mobile hardware and uses Firefox, Chrome (recommended), Internet Explorer and limited access on Safari.

This is a great tool for study and professionally (I can see why work uses it). You can bookmark web pages and add comments and access them when you need too via the cloud.  

As usual with these things some time needs to be spent on using the tool (and learning the jargon) to really gain a full understanding of how you can best utilise all the features. 

Google Docs collaboration

Our group also had a Google Doc collaboration where we added in comments on various social bookmarking tools.  I have used Google Docs previously and have found this a very handy tool to use - especially when in a group situation.  This definitely gets a big tick for professional IM use.  

I've attached the link below to the document but I have also included my discussion on Diigo above and Twitter in a separate post.

Google Doc discussion