Diigo is a social bookmarking and annotation tool that allows users to research, share, and collaborate on web content. It combines social bookmarking, clipping, in-situ annotation, tagging, full-text search, and sharing capabilities. Diigo offers powerful personal tools and a social platform for knowledge sharing and turns the entire web into an interactive and participatory media. Founded in 2005, Diigo is focused on research and knowledge sharing and is the #1 browser extension for annotating and bookmarking webpages. Diigo provides educator accounts to facilitate classroom research, sharing, and collaboration among teachers and students.
1. Research, Share, & Collaborate
Presented By: Krystle Robinson & Jason McKay
October 24, 2011
2. What is …
• The name "Diigo" (dee'go) is an abbreviation for "Digest of
Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff."
• Diigo is about "Social Annotation". By combining social
bookmarking*, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text
search, easy sharing and interactions.
• Diigo offers a powerful personal tools and a rich social
platform for knowledge users, and in the process, turns the
entire web into a writable, participatory and interactive
media.
* Diigo doesn’t refer to its service as social bookmarking
but rather as a research and knowledge-sharing tool
3. Creators and
Innovators
• Founded in 2005
– Wade Ren, Executive Chairman
– Maggie Tsai, Vice President of Marketing
• Lunched July 24, 2006
– Diigo is the #1 extension for annotating, archiving and
bookmarking webpages
• Corporate Offices
18124 Wedge Parkway Suite 1073
Reno, NV 89511-8134
United States
4. With this easy-to-use tool, you can:
• Bookmark links to archive webpages or to read later
• Attach highlights & stickies to a webpage as a reminder
• Share pages with annotation via Twitter, Facebook, Google
Buzz
• Access anywhere:
– iPhone, iPad (http://bit.ly/e2ujpL)
– Android (http://goo.gl/tvbuq)
• Create groups to pool findings, share resources or curate
content
• Automatically cross-post to social bookmarking site Delicious
(optional)
5.
6. Educator Accounts
• www.diigo.com/educators
• Provided to K-12 and higher education educators
• Create student accounts for entire class
• Automatically set up diigo group for students that
allows group bookmark, annotations, and group
forums
• Pre-set privacy settings for student accounts that allow
communication between teachers and students only
• Limit the content of advertisements to education
• View student activity in Teacher Console
7.
8. Student Accounts
• Classmate are automatically added as friends to
facilitate communication
• The library view can show a student all of his/her
bookmarks and annotations
– The teacher can view this data in Teacher Console
• Students can only communicate with their friends and
teachers and comment on each others postings
– This is a great way to give feedback and ask questions
• Student profiles WILL NOT be indexed for People
Search, nor made available to public search engines
