Collaborating and Social Bookmarking

Hey Everyone!

Today in our tutorial for Document Management 1, we were looking at social bookmarking tools such as Diigo, Delicious, CiteUlike, etc. and also collaboration through Google Docs with our group members. My group, Suzanne, Luisa, Nouf, Kate, Christina and myself had already set up a google doc at the beginning of the semester in order to help each other with any issues we were having with our blogging assignment. Therefore, in today’s tutorial we extended this document to include discussions on the social bookmarking tools we were exploring and helping each other with them as well. It is handy to have a central document through which we can ask questions and get help from our other group members.

We also came up with a group name through suggestions and voting and came up with the name: Bloggers Anonymous!

So, in exploring social blogging tools we were mainly focused on Diigo during today’s discussion, although, I am sure there will be more discussions on other tools later on. I was able to create a Diigo account and add some of my most used websites into my library of bookmarks. I have previously used the bookmark tool on Google Chrome to collect and organise my bookmarks, however, Diigo will allow me to share them with others if I choose to. At the moment I have set all my bookmarks to private as I don’t really want to share them, however, at a later stage, if I found an interesting website or article, etc. I might do so.

Having the Google doc to discuss diigo was helpful particularly for issues that we face, for example, I wanted to import all my bookmarks from Google Chrome to Diigo. Kate discovered a good way in which to achieve this and wrote about it on the group’s Google Doc and thanks to her message I was able to import all my Google Chrome bookmarks.

So far in my short experience with Diigo I am finding that it is quite handy to have all my bookmarks in the one location and are easy to organise into lists, etc.

Update: I have added the link to the group Google Doc in my links list under: 'Bloggers Anonymous - Google Doc'.

Lisette