Diigo Tutorial

comprehensive overview of Diigo's features

1. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING &
ANNOTATION WITH DIIGO
Jennifer Carrier Dorman
http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/socialbookmarking

2. Social Bookmarking in Plain English
http://snipurl.com/delicioustutorial

3. Diigo
Diigo = Digest of Internet Information, Groups and
Other stuff
Diigo is two services in one
it is a research and collaborative research tool on the
one hand,
and a knowledge-sharing community and social content
site on the other.
http://www.diigo.com/

4. Social Bookmarking Evolved - Diigo

5. Get the Most Out of Diigo
Introduction to Diigo
http://snipurl.com/diigointro
Diigo Tutorials (text & video)
http://snipurl.com/diigotutorial
Help Center
http://help.diigo.com/

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

11. REGISTERING FOR DIIGO
Creating Your Account

12. Join Diigo

13. Create Your Account

14. Use the Gmail Trick
Create a legitimate gmail account at
http://mail.google.com/. (e.g. [email protected]).
Then, you can use that base account to "trick" web
applications that require e-mail address to create user
accounts.
The way it works is that you add a + and a student
name/alias after the gmail user name (e.g.
[email protected], etc.)
For instructions visit:
http://snipurl.com/googletricks

15. Create Your Profile
Create a Diigo avatar

16. Avatar Options for Students
http://www.befunky.com/
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
http://www.myoats.com/
http://www.picnik.com/
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
http://www.dumpr.net/

17. Add Basic Information
Add some basic
information or
elect to skip

18. Find Friends
Search you e-mail address books for friends already
using Diigo or skip

19. Activate Your Account
Diigo will send you an e-mail requesting that you
click on a link to verify your account

20. Activate Your Account
Click on the link or copy/paste the URL address to
verify your account

21. GETTING STARTED WITH
DIIGO

22. Getting Started With Diigo
After verifying, you
will be invited to
install the Diigo
toolbar and learn
more about Diigo’s
capabilities

23. Installing the Toolbar
Download the toolbar.
Click the "Install Diigo Toolbar" button.
Run DiigoToolbar.3.0.exe.
Restart your browser.

24. Not Allowed to Install Toolbars?
Diigolet is not as feature-rich as the Diigo toolbar, but it can
be set-up by simple drag-and-drop - no download or
installation needed, and it works for all major browsers.
Diigolet is a "super bookmarklet" that allows you to highlight and add
sticky-notes, in addition to simple bookmarking.
http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet

25. Post to Diigo Browser Button
http://www.diigo.com/tools/post_to_diigo

26. Import Bookmarks from the Web
Already have bookmarks hosted on another social
bookmarking site? Diigo will import all your
bookmarks.
http://www.diigo.com/tools/import_all

27. Import Bookmarks from Browser

28. Export Bookmarks
http://www.diigo.com/tools/export

29. Cross-Post Your Bookmarks
Aren’t ready to give up that Del.icio.us account? Diigo
will cross-post all your bookmarks.
https://secure.diigo.com/tools/save_to_others

30. BOOKMARKING AND
ANNOTATING CONTENT
WITH DIIGO
Processing the Web

31. Using the Toolbar

32. Annotating with Diigo

33. PUBLISH YOUR
BOOKMARKS
Share Your Research Across the Web

34. Daily Blog Post
enables you automatically post entries to your blog(s)
every day containing your latest Diigo annotated
bookmarks
http://www.diigo.com/blog_this/daily_blog

35. Adding Blogs to Your Diigo Account
You can add multiple blogs to
your Diigo account

36. Creating Blog Post Jobs
Select your job
preferences and submit

38. Blog Directly from Diigo
So now as you browse along, you simply highlight and add
sticky notes on anything that interests you, and, afterwards,
you can easily incorporate your highlights and notes to your
blog with one-click "Send to Blog".
http://www.diigo.com/blog_this/config
All you have to do is add your blog to Diigo

39. Send to Blog, Twitter, Facebook

40. Twitter This
When you check “Twitter
This” when bookmarking,
you can cross post to
your Twitter feed

41. Widgetize Your Diigo
Diigo has built-in widgets to broadcast your Diigo
Tags and Links

42. Diigo Tagroll
http://www.diigo.com/tools/tagroll

43. Diigo Linkroll
http://www.diigo.com/tools/linkrolls
Display links that are tag(s) specific and/or with your
annotations only.
When clicking on the bookmarks displayed, your
readers will see your annotations (if any) overlayed on
top of the original web page, making it a very
effective way to share your findings and views.

44. Customizing Diigo Linkroll

45. “Add to Diigo” Widget
Encourage people to add your page / blog post to
Diigo, and help to increase exposure for your site /
blog posts and drive more traffic to your site / blog!
http://www.diigo.com/tools/add_to_diigo

46. DIIGO FEATURES
Tag & Site Communities, Searching

47. Site Communities
http://www.diigo.com/community/sites
Aggregate users who annotate the same website &
build meaningful reader communities
Discover and connect with other readers interested in
the same site.

48. Site Communities
Watchlist &
WebSlides View

49. Tag Communities
http://www.diigo.com/community/tag
Aggregate users who annotate sites with the same
tags
Discover and connect with other readers interested in
the same site and explore related tags and groups

50. Tag Communities

51. Searching with Diigo
Diigo has a built-in search engine that lets you search
for bookmarks, people, and groups

52. Diigo Search Results

53. DIIGO FEATURES
Contacts, Contact Lists, & Messages

54. Contacts Lists
You can organize your contacts to lists to make it
easier to share resources and conversations
http://www.diigo.com/contact/new_list

55. Contact Lists
Add contacts to a list

56. Messages / Conversations

57. DIIGO FEATURES
Discover New Learning

58. Discover New Content
Use the Discover features to track your friend’s
bookmarks, your site Watchlists, and bookmarks
recommended to you by your learning community

59. Watchlist
Use the Watchlist to subscribe to
tags, sites, and users

60. Grow Your Learning Network
Find other users who are similar to you based on
bookmarking and annotation patterns

61. DIIGO FEATURES
Lists and Groups

62. Diigo List

63. Create a List

64. Publish a List

65. WebSlides Presentation View

66. Interact through WebSlides View

67. Create a WebSlides Presentation
http://slides.diigo.com/
To create WebSlides, users simply enter a feed or list
of bookmarks and add background music or voice
narration.
By clicking button, the list transforms into a
slideshow, bringing Web pages and user comments to
life.
All you and your reader need is just a web browser.

68. Ways to Create a WebSlides

69. WebSlides for Bookmarks

70. WebSlides for RSS Feed

72. Diigo Groups
Diigo Groups Video Tutorial
http://snipurl.com/diigogroups

73. Diigo Group

74. Group Bookmarks

75. Joining and Creating Groups

76. Create a Group

77. Management
Group moderators can
customize the level of
privacy and
accessibility for the
group

78. Managing Group Members

79. Invite New Members

80. Managing the Group Forum

81. Tagging Protocols
Diigo Groups Video Tutorial http://snipurl.com/diigogroups

82. Group Tag Dictionary

83. DIIGO TEACHER CONSOLE
Security Features for Teachers and Students

84. Teacher Console
http://www.diigo.com/teacher_entry/console

85. Class Group

86. Ad-Free Status for Class Groups

87. Add Members

88. Adding Students WITHOUT E-Mails

89. Add Students with Diigo Accounts

90. Print Member Login Information

92. Manage Members

93. Student Account Security Settings
Students added to a class group by the teacher automatically
become friends to each other
No one else (except their friends) is allowed to send a friend
request or message to them
essentially Diigo presets the privacy setting at
http://www.diigo.com/profile/edit/other for these student accounts
Although each student account has a profile, the top portion
(about me / info) won't be shown.
The teacher can instruct students to mark everything private (only
shareable by the group)

94. How Are Educators Using Diigo?
Annotate curriculum documents and add stickies to show where
tech integration is happening and could happen. That could be
annotated for a group of curriculum writers.
Annotate state education agency memos for your
administrators. Among a team, share the implications of the
ideas in the memo, the most important points, and so on.
Create a slideshow of clickable web sites grabbed from your
bookmarks.
Publish your annotations/comments to your blogs or embed
linkrolls and tagrolls onto a wiki or website.
See http://tinyurl.com/5k4yqw for more integration ideas

95. What’s Coming Up with Diigo?
Educational domain for Diigo
Reviewed and approved teacher-plus accounts
separate from the main Diigo site
Only students invited by teachers will be able to join
EduDiigo groups