Diigo

OLJ Task 1. Social bookmarking.
I decided to use the social bookmarking tool Diigo. Diigo is knowledge management systems that help users manage their information. It helps streamline the overload of information and to improve productivity. But the main benefit to using Diigo is that it’s easy for people to use. (“About Diigo”, 2013., para. 1-11).

 Diigo allows users to highlight text. As users read through online articles, books etc. they can highlight sections of text and these parts will remain when the user returns to the article. Diigo lets users make annotations about text. This is done using a tool called sticky notes and works the same as regular stick notes. Diigo allows users to share information. This lets people to collaborate on project easily. When using Diigo any links are saved to your personal archive this means that broken or missing links are no longer an issue. These Diigo features are all forms of tagging. Tagging is assigning descriptive words to articles or text so they can be organised personally. This “enables users to organize their bookmarks in a meaningful way and search for resources associated to specific tags” (Del Moral, Estelles & Gonzalez, 2010, para. 11).  

Kroski (2008, p. 53) demonstrates how using a social bookmarking tool like Diigo or Delicious allows users to access their bookmarked articles from any computer, not just the computer they used when they bookmarked the article. This is possible as the bookmarked articles are saved to an online archive not a physical computer.  

After using Diigo I have found that bookmarking and tagging is extremely useful. Academic libraries should encourage students to use social bookmarking and offer tutorials at the university library about how to use Diigo or Delicious. Tagging can be used in all libraries by adding the option to the OPAC. This will allow library patrons to organise material by their own criteria.

References

About Diigo. (2013). Retrieved from https://www.diigo.com/about

Del Moral, Esther., Estelles, Enrique., & Gonzalez, Fernando. (2010). Social bookmarking tools as facilitators of learning and research collaborative processes: The Diigo case. Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 6, 175.

Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE%7CA247740282&v=2.1&u=csu_au&it=r&p=EAIM&sw=w&authCount=1

Kroski, Ellyssa. (2008). Web 2.0 for librarians and information professionals. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.