Today, I want to talk about my experience using the social
bookmarking service Diigo and Delicious.
I had once used it during another course. But did not get into its use,
in other words I did not see its value. I understand now the concept of
bookmarking and it makes lots of sense and it can really make a student’s life
easier. Easier because as a student you have lots of assignments that require
doing research and both of this sites Diigo and Delicious are great tools for
researchers. Bookmarking articles, books, periodicals easy to organize, file,
and retrieve when you are ready to use them. Bookmarking is also a great tool
for the reference librarian. Reference Librarian are constantly asked the same
reference questions and this tool would be great for tagging and bookmarking
reference responses for future use.
But it can also a great
tool for personal use. Let’s just say
you are putting together a list of books that you want to line up for reading.
You can bookmark the title of the book and also a brief the description about
what the book is about. This is important for the user as they can go back and
read and decide if they want to read this book next. I honestly think that Diigo and Delicious are
great tools to use. However, I found that Diigo offers better features than
Delicious. When I started using Diigo
for this course at first I needed to go back and try to retrace my steps to get
an idea on how to use it. But then it became so simple to add bookmarks and
even edit my bookmarks with Delicious it became a little trickier it was not
that simple to add bookmarks, I could not figure out how to add an icon for
bookmarking, and then it was not easy to find the “library” that had all of my
selected articles. So it was a challenger at first and then it went smooth. But
I also found that Diigo was visually more organized, it looked better. So, If I
would have to choose between both social bookmarking services. Diigo would be
the winner! Until something else new and better comes along.
