So I am new to tagging and all that, but i did watch the video on del.icio.us and thought that it was cool. Awhile ago, I signed up for the Diigo account that Marie had recommended to us, but through the semester I never had much of a chance to look through it. I did more today. ( I didn't end up setting up the del.iciou.us account because i don't want too many bookmarking sites for myself...hope thats cool)
I love this tool! I think it is extremely useful! As I was browsing around the internet, killing time, it was so easy to mark cool or interesting sites and articles using Diigo. I installed the little button in my tool bar: Diigolet, and when I click it a little thing asked me if I want to highlight, book mark, etc. Then, when I was all done I could just go to my Diigo account's Library and voila! There were all the sites that interested me throughout the morning.
I am totally going to be using this in the future as a research tool. I can't believe I didn't this semester, I guess I was just too overwhelmed with the amount of Web 2.0 tools out there. Regrettable. But whatever, this is going to be my new way of researching for sure. Or not even researching for a paper, but of cool library things. I've joined a few groups on the site, and could definitely see joining more as I find more interesting things, especially in the library profession. I'm pretty much in love with Diigo right now :) I love that there's a feature for "read later" and ways to organize all the information you save. I honestly can't say enough about what a great tool this is going to be for me later on...
An extra cool thing that I found: (which may be a bit of a "duh" for anyone whose been doing this type of stuff before)
-Once you tag a cool website, it goes into your "library"
-From there you can click on any of the tags and see what else has been tagged with that same word
-This led me to a ton of awesome sites, some that I had heard of or looked at before, but it really draws connections between information for me!
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