Thing 6: Social Bookmarking and annotating

If you're like me, you search the web every day to find useful sites and information.  Sometimes you find a site that's amazing, and you bookmark it so you can come back to it.

But what if you want to share it with someone from your tablet--or what if you found it when you were hanging out at the library computer lab?

And what if you were reading the information and you wanted to write a note to yourself about the text?

Social bookmarking tools can help writers use web information more intelligently.  Not only do they help you revisit great websites from any device, they also can allow you to annotate the information on the site.  As a big fan of Marking on Books, I love this.

Watch this video from one social bookmarking site, diigo, to see what a social bookmarking and annotating site can do.

Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.

There are many other social bookmarking sites, too--I've used Delicious and Scoop.it.  You can check them out, too.  I like Diigo because of the annotating abilities it has.

For Thing 6, create a Diigo account for yourself.  Be sure to add a diigolet to your most-used computer--it allows you to quickly add sites to your Diigo library.

Then practice bookmarking and annotating two items:

• this article about online reading and 
• one other website--could be an article or could just be a web page--you can annotate anything with Diigo. 

On your blog, write about your experience with Diigo.

• Have you used social bookmarking before?  
• What sites did you bookmark?  How/what did you annotate?  did you just highlight, or write note on digital post-its?
• How might a Diigo account help you with your studies here at Coe?  Can you see it being useful in classes besides this one?  How?
• How might a professional use Diigo?  Imagine yourself in your dream job:  can you see a use for social bookmarking and annotating?
• Be sure to share a link to your Diigo pages.