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Social Media Bookmarking

We are proud to introduce ‘social media bookmarking’, the newest integration into Diigo.

This is the age of social media platforms. The way we consume information from the internet has evolved, and so has Diigo.

Just about everyone is on a couple social media platforms, whether to consume or share online content. Managing all your favorite pieces of information throughout all these platforms and apps becomes very difficult once you are using a few sites together. In the case of heavy social media users, the task of managing all this content becomes overwhelming.

Social media bookmarking from Diigo helps you store, find and organize all your favorite pieces of content from these platforms all in one place; your Diigo library.

Connect the platform or your choice to your Diigo account, and your ‘likes’ and ‘favorites’ will automatically be sent to your Diigo library. Default tags can be added to saved content from each separate platform, or you can add/edit them manually from your library. From your library, you can also easily add them to Outliners for further organization, or share them to your Groups directly.

Setup a free Diigo account and give social media bookmarking a try! All Diigo accounts can connect one social media platform for free, while upgraded accounts can connect all the platforms we support simultaneously.

https://www.diigo.com/aggregation

Many more platforms are planned to be added for Diigo integration. Check out our currently supported platforms below!

Twitter - ‘Favorite’ a tweet to send it to your library

Pocket - Choose between ‘favorite’, specific tag/s or ‘all’ for what to send to your library

Instapaper - Choose between ‘favorite’, a specific folder, or ‘all’ for what to send to your library

Github - ‘Star’ a repository to send it to your library

Stack Overflow - ‘Favorite’ a question to send it to your library

Youtube - ‘Like’ a video to send it to your library

Tumblr - ‘Like’ a post to send it to your library

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Automatic Bookmarking for your Twitter Favorites

Regular to heavy users of Twitter have long had a need for a simple method of saving and organizing their favorite tweets. By only using the provided features within Twitter, users end up with a long, unorganized list of favorites with no real way to structure them. Therefore, we built a feature within Diigo that automatically saves your favorite tweets to your library, where you can organize them by adding tags or sending them to Outliner. 

This “save favorite tweets” feature has actually been around for quite a while, 5 years to be exact. We built this feature to use within our own staff, who all loved this function so much that we integrated it into Diigo. There wasn’t a big announcement, and we didn’t promote this function much. However, through the years we’ve come to find that many users really like this feature, so I’m going to take you through the process of integrating Twitter to your Diigo library. 

https://www.diigo.com/tools/save_tweets

Sign into your Diigo account and head to the link above. You can also access this page by signing into your Diigo library, mouse over your account avatar on the top right corner, and selecting the “tools” option. This page is not easily reachable in it’s current state, which is an issue we are going to address when we revamp our site. From here, make sure you are signed into your Twitter account and hit the “Connect Twitter to Diigo” button. You’re set!

From the same page, you can access a few options on how Diigo handles your saved tweets. Options include saving only favorites with links, privacy settings, and automatically adding tags to your saved tweets. Your favorite tweets are updated daily, set and forget.

As we are in the process of a complete web site revamp, more integration with social media is definitely in our pipeline. Let me know what you think of this feature, and If you would like to see it’s functionality expanded to other major social media channels as well. Leave your input in the comments below our drop us a note via [email protected]!

The “save favorite tweets” feature is currently limited to premium users. This will change once we release our revamped website, coming soon!

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Diigo’s Shared Outliners

The method of creating outlines as a form of preparation before starting on a research paper,  literature review, thesis, or any formal document where structure is important is a common practice. Almost every time you structure an outline of your thoughts and research before putting it into a formal document, the results will be better than if you skipped this process. This is the reason I want to share Diigo’s “Outliner” with you and show you how outlines can not only be used for written documents, but also for your online information.

https://www.diigo.com/outliner/5ogljf/Strategic-Foresight-for-Diigo?key=yulmrsj8si

This is an Outliner I created regarding strategic foresight. We are in the process of working with a consultancy specializing in strategic foresight, so research into this field was needed since we were not familiar with this specialization. 

As most people do now, I started with a simple Google search for “strategic foresight”,  This turned into many more searches, each one more specific than the last. During this process, I added the sites with relevant information into Diigo, and the sites that struck me as very informative were thrown into Outliner. 

The text in the Outliner linked above is almost completely generated through the “convert” feature. What this does is it automatically converts the text you highlighted in any link you insert into Outliner directly into text structured under the web site link. Adjusting the structure and adding short notes were the only actions that needed manual input. This gave me a great overview of the best pieces of relevant information I found on the web in one document with simple access to the original links. I can also easily share it with anyone, like I’m sharing with all of you, through a share link within Outliner.

Feel free to check out my Outliner, or start your own over at www.diigo.com. We aim to make the process of organizing your online knowledge simple, Outliner is an important factor towards reaching this goal. Be sure to leave a comment if you have any questions or suggestions. 

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Why do you need you own online knowledge library?

You have probably heard of numerous online productivity tools during your online adventures. Websites such as Evernote, Workflowy, Wunderlist are a few that claim to save you time and increase your efficiency. A few of these sites have become quite popular and are widely used. However, most people do not use these tools much, if at all. While we don’t focus on lists or note taking, our goal is to help you create your own online knowledge archive. What’s the benefit for someone to have a personal online knowledge library like Diigo? 

If you’re like me, you’ve probably tried a productivity tool at some point. It might have been online or an app, but you didn’t stick to it due to not seeing immediate value from it. This is the most prominent issue we face as well. To build a library, you need to fill it with information that’s relevant to you, and organize it in a way that you can find the pieces of information you stored away easily and quickly. That’s what Diigo strives to achieve, providing you with a simple method to store all the important pieces of content you find online, organize it and be able to access it from any internet connected device. The ability to easily share parts of your collected content to friends or colleagues is also a huge part of our goal. 

We live in a great time full of useful tech that’s begging to be used. 

If your ventures and pursuits require a decent amount of research, or if you just can’t stop learning, give Diigo a try. Instead of trying to stuff all that information into your brain, stuff it into Diigo to streamline your workflow and have all your stored content on hand anywhere. I know there’s always a mini barrier when it comes to picking up a new tool, but tools are made to help you save time and increase efficiency when used right. 

So stop filling your browser with links that you’ll never find again. Give Diigo a try and create your knowledge library today! 

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What is Diigo, & what does it do?

Diigo (pronounced dee’go) is an online platform with the goal of helping you create your own personal online knowledge library. Sounds pretty vague right? 

Diigo is actually an abbreviation for “Digest of Internet information, Groups and Other stuff”. Yeah, I didn’t come up with the name. If it were up to me the name would have been something similar to other products in social bookmarking “when it was cool” like Delicious or Digg. The net overall has moved away from using social bookmarking as an SEO tool since the big G changed their algorithm and social bookmarking stopped being an effective way of increasing site rankings. This change also effectively killed many sites based on that function. 

This is an aspect that differentiates Diigo from all the other sites though, as we are still fully operational and have tried our best to adapt to the ever changing needs of our users. I cannot call Diigo a startup, as we have been active for almost 10 years. We are a boot strapped company, and have never looked for external funding. We’ve never been acquired. We are not from Silicon Valley. We’ve had the same CEO this whole time, with team members that have been with us for 6+ years. 

Some members of the tech community would consider a company in our position in “startup purgatory”. The way we look at it is that we really want to see our small vision of filling in what we view as a missing feature from the world wide web, “your own personalized layer of the internet”. 

There are some sites now that are pursuing similar goals in terms of a personalized, annotated layer of the internet. Did you know this was a crucial part of the original vision the web was supposed to have? Some have made decent progress, more have kicked the bucket. Our goal is to evolve from “social bookmarking” to allowing users to easily create their own personal online information library. 

This vision is what keeps Diigo going. Social bookmarking is still a big part of Diigo, Highlights and on-page notes are staple features in this product genre. More and more products are implementing an outline based platform for online information management. What we aim to achieve is bringing all these functions together into one, simple online learning platform. That’s why we are working on a complete revamp of our entire website/UI and adding features that meet users’ current needs. We know this has been long over due. We appreciate all of our users, old and new alike. Let me know what keeps you using Diigo, and what you would like to see us evolve into. 

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In-Group Videos and Group Content Exporting Now Supported for Diigo Groups!

New Features for Diigo Groups!

Diigo Groups now supports in link videos from Youtube and Vimeo. Play videos you link directly from Diigo Groups. We have also implemented CSV/Excel format content exporting from any Diigo Group.

Give our new features a try and let us know what you think. Diigo still has many more improvements in the pipeline, be sure to check back for updates

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Annotating The Web With Diigo - Summer Academy 2015

A slide set to accompany a face to face work session during Summer Academy 2015 in the North Kansas City Schools...

Check out this great slide share presentation by Sean Nash at the Kansas CIty school district. Some really deep insight on how to use Diigo for education.

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Diigo Revamp Phase1 Complete!

We are happy to announce that we have completed phase 1 of our website revamp. 

Our new homepage and extension tutorial are now live.

Check out our new homepage @ www.diigo.com

A complete website/UI revamp is still in the works. Check back oftem for updates!

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Diigo Deal @ onthehub.com

We are happy to announce that we have teamed up with onthehub.com which allows students and educators to gain discounts on academic software.

If you are a student or educator, subscribe to the website to gain 50% off Diigo's standard plan, which includes advanced features such as unlimited annotations, image captures, and permanant website/PDF archiving!

Check it out and give it a try!

http://onthehub.com/perks

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Diigo: Your Personal Learning and Knowledge Platform - TechAcute

Knowledge is power, especially in the technology filled world that we have today, and the more we read the better.

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Diigo Revamp Phase 2

Diigo is continuously making improvments to the user interface of the website to ensure that users experience a better, easier and more streamlined service. Take a look at our next stage in the design process, the tutorials!

Tell us what do you think, are they clear and informative enough?

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Diigo Revamp - 1st Stage!

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are currently working on big changes for the Diigo UI, bringing you an easier, modern and streamlined version. The first stage we want to share with our users is the new homepage. Let us know what you guys think before it goes live!

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Welcome to Diigo!

Streamline your online browsing and bookmarks with our advanced online knowledge platform. Collect, Store, Organize and Share your research easily and efficiently!

Features such as highlighter, outliner, sticky notes and tags will help make your online learning more efficient and enjoyable!

Please do check out the website to start your learning today!

www.diigo.com