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By Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultant, 1 July 2009sarah.currier@gmail.com ©2009 Higher Education Academy
SHEEN Sharing Diigo TrainingPreparation Notes
In order to prepare for attending one of the three SHEEN Sharing Training Sessions, it is importantthat you follow the steps laid out in this document. These steps take you through creating your ownDiigo account, installing the Diigo Toolbar, and getting your existing favourites or bookmarks intoyour Diigo account on the Web. Links are given to further help on the Diigo site should you need it.You can also email or telephone Sarah Currier or Cherie Woolmer if you have any problems.
1. Get yourself a Diigo Account 
1.
 
Go to Diigo’s website: 
http://www.diigo.com/. 2.
 
Click “Join Diigo” (top
-right of screen).3.
 
Create your user account by filling in the form.a.
 
Choose something you will remember for your Username.b.
 
Please use some version of your real name for First Name and Last Name so that othermembers of the ECN will recognise you when they look at your bookmarks andcomments etc.c.
 
Take note of which email account you give them as you will need to go check it later!d.
 
NB there is an introductory video you can click to watch on the right of the screen, aswell as options to use your Facebook or OpenID account in Diigo. These are entirelyoptional-
no need to bother if you don’t have the time or inclination.
 e.
 
Fill
in the rest of the form and click “Continue”.
 f.
 
The next step gives you some options for adding more information about yourself. You
can add a picture to identify yourself to other users if you want; it doesn’t have to be a
photo of yourself. All items on this page are optional- fill in as many as you want and
click “Save and continue”
at the bottom.g.
 
The next step is “Find Your Friends”. This step logs into any of the popular Webmail
accounts like Hotmail, and has a look to see if any of your contacts already belong toDiigo. Again this is entirely optional. Only do it if you think it might be useful for you!
Otherwise, click “skip” near the bottom right.
 h.
 
The next step you will see is “Activate Your Account”. You need to go to the email
account you gave as your email address above. Use a different browser tab or window if you are using Webmail, as you may need to look back at the Diigo page you are on.i.
 
There should be an email in your inbox from Diigo entitled “Activate Your DiigoAccount”. If there isn’t, wait until it appears
-
it may take a few minutes. If it doesn’tappear, follow the instructions given under “Didn’t Get the Email” on the Diigo
page youhave left open in another window or tab. j.
 
Open the email and click on the activation link given i
n it. If that doesn’t work, copy and
paste it into your browser (again, a new tab or window).k.
 
Once you have clicked the link, you will be taken straight to a page that gives you theoption to install the Diigo Toolbar. This is very easy to do, however, we will be coveringit in the training as well. If you wish to try installing it now, go ahead.
2. Installing the Diigo Toolbar
In order to use Diigo effectively, you need to have the Diigo Toolbar installed on the computer orcomputers you use for work or other bookmarking activities. The Toolbar sits in your browser (i.e.
 
By Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultant, 1 July 2009sarah.currier@gmail.com ©2009 Higher Education AcademyInternet Explorer or Firefox), near the top of the screen; if you regularly use more than one browser(e.g. Internet Explorer
and 
Firefox) you should install it in both.Anyway, it couldn
’
t be easier to install the Diigo Toolbar. You can only use the full Toolbar if you useInternet Explorer, Firefox or Flock. You need fairly up-to-date versions of whichever one of theseyou use: the Diigo Toolbar help page will let you know which versions are OK:http://www.diigo.com/tools When you got your user account as noted in the previous section, you will have been invited toinstall the Diigo Toolbar. You may have even done it without realising! To check, look at the top of your browser window; you should see a bar with the Diigo logo, and buttons called
“
Diigo
”
,
“
Bookmark
”
,
“
Highlight
”
etc. You should also see an option in the very top of your browser called
“
Diigo
”
.If you don
’
t see any of this in your browser then you haven
’
t installed the Diigo Toolbar. To do so, goto http://www.diigo.com/tools and follow the very simple instructions. If you have any problems contact Sarah Currier.
3. Get your existing bookmarks and favourites into your Diigo account 
You can do this whether or not you
’
ve installed the Diigo Toolbar. If you have installed the DiigoToolbar, you can import bookmarks or favourites from your browser by going to the
“
Diigo
”
buttonin the Diigo Toolbar and selecting the option
“
Import My Bookmarks
”
or
“
Import Bookmarks
”
.If you haven
’
t installed the Diigo Toolbar, or you want to import bookmarks from Delicious or someother Web bookmarking tool, follow the instructions below.These instructions cover Favorites in your Internet Explorer browser, Bookmarks in your Firefoxbrowser, and Bookmarks in Delicious accounts. You can bring in bookmarks from other browsersand tools: please check the Diigo Tools page here: http://www.diigo.com/tools/import_all
 
,or emailSarah Currier for advice.
3.1 Get your Favorites from Internet Explorer into Diigo
NB: The instructions given on the Diigo page for exporting your Favorites from Internet Explorer
aren’t really adequate to cover all possible versions of Internet Explorer. So the instructions may
look unfamiliar. If they are OK for you, follow them, otherwise...1.
 
... go to this page and find the correct Export Favorites instructions for your Internet Explorerversion, and follow them: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211089 They should lead you to an Export Wizard that will easily take you through exporting your Favorites.2.
 
You should finish up by saving a file called
bookmark.htm
to your
own computer’s filesystem
 somewhere- make sure you note where you have saved them to exactly before you exit theExport Favorites wizard.3.
 
Go to http://www.diigo.com/  4.
 
Sign in using the username and password you gave in the steps above in
Section 1: Get Yourself a Diigo Account 
.5.
 
Click on “My Bookmarks” in the row of tabs just under the blue
header at the top of the screen.
 
By Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultant, 1 July 2009sarah.currier@gmail.com ©2009 Higher Education Academy6.
 
Because you are a new user, you should now see a screen saying “You don’t have any
bookmarks yet. You can import your bookmarks
”
.7.
 
Underneath there are two buttons: one to import bookmarks from your browser
(“bookmarks”
are
called “favourites” in Internet Explorer)
, and one to import from Delicious.
Click “Importbookmarks from your browser”.
 8.
 
If you have installed the Diigo Toolbar already, and feel confident to try proceeding with the firstoption to import using the Diigo Toolbar, go ahead, following the instructions. However, I
’
ll
assume you haven’t done this!
 9.
 
Scroll down to the
“Import via browser export bookmark file”
section10.
 
Go down to step 3; browse to and select the
bookmark.htm
file you exported from I.E. in step 2above.11.
 
You can add optional tags at this point which will be applied to all your bookmarks. You may like
to add something like “myIEFavorites_230609” just to identify them to yourself later as ones youimported today. However, it’s entirely up to you wh
ether you add tags at this stage or not.12.
 
Most importantly 
, you must decide whether to make your bookmarks
 public
or
 private
at thisstage. If you import them as
 public
then anyone using Diigo can see them. It might be an idea toimport all your bookmarks as
 private
initially; you can go in later and make the ones you want toshare with the ECN and others
public. We’ll cover that in the training; you don’t need to worry
about it now.13.
 
Finish by clicking the import button. Once you’ve done this, you’ll see
a screen saying:
Task is being processed. You will receive notification by email when it is done.
Importing may take some time to complete, depending on how many bookmarks you haveand how many other people are trying to import at the same time.
Your tag cloud may require more processing and will be available later.
14.
 
Experience so far tells us it can take a few days for your I.E. Favorites to appear as DiigoBookmarks. Please be patient and wait for the email from Diigo; you can also go back and checkin
your Diigo account to see if they’ve arrived.
 
3.2 Get your Bookmarks from Firefox into Diigo
NB: The instructions given on the Diigo page for exporting your Bookmarks from Firefox
aren’t really
adequate to cover all possible versions of Firefox. So the instructions may look unfamiliar. If theyare OK for you, follow them, otherwise...1.
 
... you need to find the “Import and Backup” menu. In my version of Firefox, you click the“Bookmarks” menu at the top of the page, then “Organise Bookmarks”. At the top
of the
resulting popup is an option “Import and Backup”.
 2.
 
Select “Export HTML” –
you want to end up with an HTML file saved to your
own computer’s
filesystem somewhere- make sure you note where you have saved them to exactly before you
exit the “Import and Backup” menu
.3.
 
Go to http://www.diigo.com/  4.
 
Sign in using the username and password you gave in the steps above in
Section 1: Get Yourself a Diigo Account 
.5.
 
Click on “My Bookmarks” in the row of tabs just under the blue he
ader at the top of the screen.
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