Diigo the Social Bookmarking Site on Steroids.

What is social bookmarking exactly and why do we need it?  Bookmarking sites help to solve a huge problem on the internet. Did you know there are over 16 billion WebPages? How do you make sense of all that information? Of course you can add sites to your favorite’s folder in your web browser but soon that list grows long and messy.  Then you make folders to group sites together but the same thing happens. I long messy list of folders full of long lists of WebPages.   How do you remember which folder you put something in?

Sites such as Digg and Delicious can help somewhat with this problem. You can bookmark a site and then add tags so it will be easy to find later. They are web based tools so you can find the WebPages from any computer and your friends and colleagues can access them using tags as well.

This is a good start but what if you want to highlight or take notes about a certain webpage? You could do a screenshot then save it and email to your colleges. But the problem of how to organize the information remains.  

This is where Diigo shines! It is a social bookmarking tool and so much more. Not only can you bookmark a  webpage and enter tags, you can also highlight text and make notes or annotations, as they call it, right on the webpage. 

Those notes stay with the bookmark for you and for your friends to look at later. If you want to you can email the page to your colleagues directly from Diigo itself. The webpage is added to your favorites plus you can make custom lists which are like a folder except you can use your tags to search through the list later.

You can also create and join groups based on your interests and pool your resources for specific projects. This truly is the perfect research and collaborative site or Social Bookmarking on Steroids. Let the inquisitive of the world unite!

First here is a video that explains in very simple terms the concept of social bookmarking.

Next here is a video that gives an overview of Diigo and explains all the possibilities. Check it out then head over to www.diigo.com for your free account. Spend the extra time to fill out your profile and add your contacts so the email function works correctly. And then start researching and bookmarking and sharing.