Showing posts with label bookmarking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bookmarking. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2009

Delicious, Diigo, both or neither?

By now, with the size of the internet and the number of new and useful sites and tools that are popping up every minute, everyone can appreciate the value of social bookmarking tools to keep track of links. For teachers, there is great potential fir using these tools, eg. from sharing specific links with students that you want them to use for a project to collaborating with other teachers in your discipline around the country to create a rich hub for useful, subject specific, web resources. Here is a list of Top 10 Social Bookmarking Tools for Educators.

I use Delicious to quickly tag everything I come across of interest, but I at this point I need to spend some time organizing it and getting more out of it than a mere repository of links which follow little rhyme or reason at the moment.

I had heard great things about Diigo, so I signed up. The first time I tried to use it, I was so overwhelmed by the number of features it has and options in the toolbar that I haven't touched it since. Some people say there is a place for both Delicious and Diigo. And then there are also all the other tools that I haven't explored yet.

So, what bookmarking tool do you use? Please answer the poll question and comment below if you'd like. Any tips on using either tool or any others would be appreciated. (Eg. How do you categorize your tags? Is it better to have a lot of tags or a select few?) And if you'd like to build on your bookmarking network, include your username so that others participating in this discussion can add you.