Tools - Trusted NetworksSocial Bookmarks

@marcopolis @ImagineCanada

• An overview

• What you can do. How this might improve your life

• Tagging and keeping it organized

• Focus on Diigo as collaborative tool

• Case study: how collaborative bookmarking can work

• Data portability

• Going mobile – there’s an app for that

Social Bookmarks

Traditional bookmarking

Where did that link go?

It would be easier find it by topic.

Bookmarking from browser

1.Categorization, merging = time & management

2. Limited to one pc, one type of browser

3. Knowledge isolation

Keyword sorting, portability, knowledge sharing? What more could a girl (or guy) ask for?

Solves: Portability – web app Sort-ability – tagging Expanding personal

knowledge

Adds: Knowledge community• Share bookmarks with other

users• Research community• Updates from users and new

topics

Wanda, Xavier, and Fred share

this

Jim, Mary, Wanda, Jane,

are here

Tools - Trusted NetworksSocial Bookmarks - Overview

CRAP Test

CurrentReliableAuthoritative Point of View

Social bookmarking tools make it easy to bookmark a web page, access your bookmarks through the web, share your bookmarks with others, and discover sites that people with related interests have bookmarked.

http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Social+Bookmarking

Trusted Sources

Social Bookmarking Sites

How many ways can you spell nonprofit?

Non profit Nonprofits Nonprofit Not for profit Non-profit NPO

What are other people using for

this term?

How to describe this in one word?

“Folksonomies” or more simply …Tagging

TAG, TAGGING and MORE Tags

Save once, multiple uses:

• one place for all bookmarks, accessible anywhere you can connect to the internet

• post once, share in multiple places• RSS feeds – get notified• Post to blog • Post to web page• Post to Twitter, Facebook, Email to network• Share with group/lists

• more

Social Bookmarks – what you can doThe Overwhelm

Easily import bookmarks from different browsers and other social-bookmarking sites

Attach personalized tags to any bookmarkAdd notes about any bookmarked page

Subscribe to tags and users you find interesting

Easy bookmarking tools – toolbars, bookmarklets, post to bookmark site

Easy bookmarking tools – toolbars, bookmarklets, post to bookmark site

Diigo – Social Bookmarking ++• Diigo = Digest of Internet Information, Groups

and Other stuff • Diigo is three services in one – A simple place to store, access and share your

bookmarks– A research and collaborative research tool– A knowledge-sharing community and social

content site

Diigo – a Social Information Network

Adapted from: http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation

Is Diigo Better Than Delicious?Is Diigo Better?

17 features comparing Diigo, Delicious and traditional bookmarks. By Diigo (so, you know, kinda biased).http://www.diigo.com/help/why_diigo

7 Reasons Diigo Tastes Better Than Delicious

1) Highlighting2) Saving Pages is Easier Than Ever, Regardless of Browser3) Functional Commenting and Real Conversations4) Send Bookmarks to Facebook or Twitter with one click5) Simultaneously bookmark things to Diigo and Elsewhere – even Delicious!6) Bookmark and Search Entire Web Pages7) Webslides

Adapted from http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-reasons-diigo-tastes-better-than-delicious/

Ultimately, it depends on what you want to use it for.

But, using Diigo doesn’t mean leaving Delicious.

• Personal Research Tool• Collaborative Research Tool: see what others in

your area of interest have gathered, share what you have gathered.

• Social Content - Share bookmarks and connect/network with other users (actively or passively)

• Knowledge Sharing• Collaborative capability: task oriented uses.

Diigo – More what you can do

Diigo – Personal Research Tool

• Bookmark, highlight, and add sticky notes to any web page

• Organize your bookmarks and annotations by tags or lists.

• Access and search your bookmarks anywhere, by tags or by full-text

• Multiple ways to share your bookmarks and annotations

http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation

Diigo – Collaborative Research

• Diigo groups are ideal for team research

• Pool and organize resources using group bookmarks

• Group sticky notes are great for discussion

• Group tag dictionary to enforce tagging

consistency

http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation

Diigo – Social Content

• Find the most popular bookmarks on any subject

• Subscribe to the most recent bookmarks by tags, sites, or users

• Get recommended content • Get related content while

browsing

http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation

Diigo – Knowledge-Sharing

• You are what you annotate. • Keep in touch with friends

through content • Find and connect with people

having common interests • Multiple ways to connect with

people

http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation

Diigo – Webslides

Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows…

An example:

http://slides.diigo.com/widget/slides?sid=29782

http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/diigo-tutorial-presentation

Diigo Case Study: how collaborative bookmarking can work

Web content editing

Importance of data portability and bookmark backing up (you can take your bookmarks with you!)

Going mobile – there’s an app for that

Some last thoughts