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8 Reasons You Should Be Using Diigo

April 22, 2014 by Kasey Bell

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8 Reasons You Should Be Using Diigo
Diigo is one of my favorite, and most-used tools. Diigo defines itself as a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community. At its core, Diigo is a social bookmarking tool, but it is so much more than that. Diigo offers so many features that are particularly useful for teachers and students. Below are the eight reasons you should be using Diigo.

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  1. Web-based bookmarks: Need I say more? Bookmarks can be made and accessed from any web-enabled device. No more losing your “favorites!” (Goodbye Internet Explorer!)
  2. Tagging! Tags allow you to assign keywords to your bookmarks. Tagging is so much more practical than folders, when you are forced to choose one folder for your bookmark. With tags, you can assign as many tags or keywords as you like, making it easier for you and others to locate your bookmarks.
  3. It’s Social! You can share your bookmarks with others, join and create groups and collaboratively share your bookmarks, notes and comments! You can even follow other educators to see what they are bookmarking.
  4. Annotate the web! Did you know you can highlight, add sticky notes, and even take screenshots to add to bookmarks? You can also share a unique URL with your annotations with your students! Diigo is a great resource for student research!
  5. Read Later is a favorite feature of mine. I often find a great resource that I want to come back to later. I just mark it as “read later,” and it is saved to my library.
  6. The Diigo App: Yes, there’s an app for that! The Diigo Browser app for iOS is phenomenal. I can bookmark, annotate, share with my groups, AND it connects to my other social media accounts so I can pin it to Pinterest and tweet out the link.
  7. Diigo Extension for Chrome: Yes, you know how I love Chrome! But the Diigo extension is my MVP. It keeps me connected to my library, and makes it so easy to bookmark, share, and annotate from my computer.
  8. Connect Diigo to Twitter: Not only is Diigo social in its own right, but you can connect your Twitter account and have all of your Twitter favorites automatically added to your Diigo bookmark library!

Ready to learn more?
The Diigo Video Library has great tutorials to get you started.
Go to Diigo.com to create your account.Follow ShakeUpLearning on Diigo

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  1. Praful Mistry says

    June 27, 2014 at 7:04 am

    yes, Diigo is really a good site for social bookmarking and it is also a high PR site. Organic traffic can be easily generated through this.

  2. Sally Burr says

    February 17, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    Thank you for the post! I love Diigo too. It’s a really powerful tool and I don’t think I have been using it as well as I could be. Thanks for the reminder on what a great tool it is.

    • Kasey Bell says

      February 22, 2016 at 12:33 pm

      Thanks for the comment, Sally! Diigo is such a great tool!

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