Yesterday, I finished putting together a learning guide on Diigo, and it gave me time to think about how I use Diigo.
If you are not familiar with Diigo, it is a powerful, web-based social bookmarking tool. On a regular day, I probably use Diigo at least 12-15 times. I am constantly looking for resources that will help me or others do our jobs better. Primarily, I look for new tools and ways to use tools to support Extension.
If I see a useful website, I save it to Diigo. I may find a great site from a Twitter post, a recommendation from a friend, or by browsing. So far, I have collected 4,200 links. Compared to saving links as favorites in a web browser, I have the links available wherever I go. To support Extension, I use the links I have collected in three primary ways.
Subject Guides
Because I tag each link I save, I have a ready-made subject guide I can share with others. For example, if you were interested in more information on Diigo, I would share these three links, which would take you to my learning guides:
Learning Guides
I also use the links to put together learning guides to help others get started with a tool or concept, as well as discover new ideas for using the tools. Basically, I sift through a subject guide and try to pull out the Web sites that add value to the topic.
Newsletter
At the end of the month, I had put together a newsletter called Geeks and Speaks. In the newsletter, I shared many of the links I discovered throughout the previous month that I believe Extension educators would benefit from reading. Note: We have stopped publishing this newsletter.
Interested in learning more about social bookmarking, I recommend you check out Social Bookmarking and Annotating.
I would love to hear how you are using Diigo or other social bookmarking sites. Drop a comment.
Additional Reading
- Emailing to Diigo: My New Best Friend
- Experimenting With Diigo
- Follow Up on Dropbox, Diigo, Evernote, and Zotero
- How I Use Flipboard, Twitter, and Diigo to Advance My Professional Development
