Week 4 - Managing Information with Social Bookmarking and Tagging

Set tasks to create a "Pinterest" account and search specified item.

Also, needed to download new tab for "Diigo" and do as tasks were set.

By far, the most enjoyable of the e-labs so far as these applications are easy to use and share with other internet users!

1. A social bookmarking service is an online tool for collecting and organising your web documents. DIIGO - is a free social bookmarking research and knowledge sharing tool created to mimic the ease of taking notes while providing netowrk for sharing and discovering information.

It allows you to take personal notes and highlight text information on web pages just as you would on a piece of paper.

You can then bookmark and save this information for further review, while adding tags to keep everything organised.

All this information is saved online and can be accessed by any computer/browser, including mobile phones with browsing capabilities.

TAGGING - essential part and significant feature of Social Bookmarking systems.

It enables users to organise their bookmarks so that information is easily accessible and easier to retrieve aswell as allowing users to develop shared vocabularies.

This was demonstrated in the Article: concerning the “dark-side” of Mash-ups, presented in this post – “Why Combining Social Media Sites Can Be Hazardous to Your Privacy”. Important features of DIIGO include: 1) Highlighter 2) Taking Notes 3) Screenshots 4) Searching 5) Collaborating and Using Groups 6) Bibliography 7) Sharing 1) HIGHLIGHTER - This allows one to add digital highlights.

Using the BOOKMARK panel, one can select and highlight, to select any text and use different highlighter colours.

As everything's saved in Cloud, all these Highlights will stay on page and can be revisited; even from any device with capability.

Great for active e-reading and better retention of information.

2) TAKING NOTES - Press on "Diigolet" button on bookmark toolbar (after one has installed it via the website), and press the ANNOTATE button.

Click "highlight" and then highlight text and click "sticky note" tab to add own notes.

Can post publicly/private.

Can move "sticky note" beside text.

3) SCREENSHOTS - Once Screenshot is installed (once again, in toolbar; under Diigo tab), click screenshot.

A user is able to click and drag over area of text that is to be highlighted!

One can adjust the size of it and even draw attention to certain parts that you want to stand out (Highlight).

Once that's done, the user can click the "Save" button.

A user also has options of "Tag as stand-alone item" or "Attach it to the page URL".

A user can also go back to "My Library" and see what it looks like!

Both link and Screenshot shown together and Red Square present to access certain information.

4)SEARCHING

Go to "My Library" - search bar's available there.

Click drop-down arrow for "Advanced Search" e.g. "all words anywhere"; click "search" after all is entered.

Almost always, just search the tags and click "Search".

Results will show up with tagged word highlighted in the entire search text.

5) COLLABORATING AND USING GROUPS - Head up to Toolbar and click "Send" tab.

Options appear on screen where one can avail of several options:

- Email and "diigo" friends - Blog - (to) Twitter - Facebook (Also in selection): - Get Annotated Link - Extract Annotations.

By sending link, people who are not on Diigo can actually view specified Annotated page.

Basic way of collaborating with people = is if we take a look at any Sticky Note.

Therefore, we can leave comments.

Just makes sure that you set your comments to public.

If you want to start connecting with other Diigo users...

The easiest way to do so is to click on another Diigo User's name and this will bring you back to their Diigo profile.

On specific profile, have option to follow user.

By following this person, one'll automatically receive automatic feeds at public updates and highlights Annotations.

(To actually follow someone)...

head to "My Network"...

(UNDER THIS):

You can find all of bookmarking, note-taking etc. that's done by the people that you're following.

(To take Collaboration a step further)...

head to "My Groups":

(HERE)Diigo allows you to set up a group where you can then collaborate and bookmark webpages together.

Can see all Bookmarkings and Annotations created by group.

Have options to invite more people and change settings here.

6) BIBLIOGRAPHY

Go to main tab and go to "My Library"...

(HERE): you will have all the posts that you need to write out your BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Go to a speicfic website where you will be able to compile all of your sources...

Go to site and copy URL of the list of particular sources e.g. EasyBib.com and they will automatically fill out a BIBLIOGRAPHY for you.

7)SHARING

Click on "Diigolet" button and proceed to "Bookmark/Share" tab.

An area will come up where one can enter URL, TITLE, TAG, BOOKMARK PRIVACY etc.

Can also change around "comment privacy" to either private or public.

Save results by pressing "Submit and Close".