Building Knowledge and Learning Communities through Diigo

Diigo is an online social bookmarking tool which allows users to collect, save, access, and share information anytime and anywhere. The Diigo toolbar offers many useful and convenient features such as sticky notes, highlighting, bookmarks, and integrated emailing.  The Diigo toolbar is available for many popular browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer.

Therefore, Diigo is a fantastic tool for anyone seeking to organize their online knowledge and/or build an interactive learning community. Diigo offers a number of great features for community building. Examples of these features include tabbed pages labeled My Groups, My Network, and Community.  Additionally, many blog websites allow users to set up a daily auto-blog post of their Diigo library. Diigo can also integrate with Twitter. Similarly to Twitter, Diigo users can follow people or build friends lists which they can access and manage through the My Network tab. People in networks can help each other find and share good online resources. Also, by following people, you can get recommendations and useful information from people you trust.

Personally, I have already taken advantage of several features offered by Diigo. I am currently a member of 4 different groups, including an IT 648 group.

I have also downloaded the Diigo toolbar for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox on both apple and my PC. In addition to the Diigo toolbar, I also use the integrated Twitter function and the daily auto-blog function. I also visit the Diigo community from time to time to learn from others. I found that these features in particular make Diigo a wonderful learning tool.

However, there are some features I have not yet explored fully or made use of. For example, I have never used the My Network feature. Additionally, I recently learned that users can save images to their Diigo Library and then later access and/or search their Diigo Library offline through an iPhone/iPad Diigo app.

            In conclusion, I have found Diigo to be one of the most useful web apps I have ever encountered. I use it almost daily and make a habit of introducing it to everyone I know.