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By Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultant, 28 June 2009sarah.currier@gmail.com ©2009 Higher Education Academy
SHEEN Sharing Diigo TrainingBookmarking using Diigo Toolbar
Start by installing the Diigo Toolbar:
Diigo Toolbar requires Internet Explorer, Firefox 2.0+, or Flock 0.9+ as a browser; WindowsVista/XP/2000 SP4+, Red Hat Linux 9.0+, or Mac OS X 10.2+ as operating system.
If Diigo Toolbar doesn’t work on your
set-up you should still be able to use the Diigolet button:http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet- this is not as feature-rich as the toolbar.
Log into www.diigo.com and go to your Dashboard, s
croll down and click on “Download NewDiigo Toolbar”
, and follow the instructions from there.
1. Bookmarking Web Pages
1. Hover over the Bookmark button in the toolbar near the top of your browser,
and see text: “Saveand tag this page to Diigo.com”
. (NB: This means you will be saving it to *your* bookmarks in Diigo).2. Click the button: a pop-up window will appear. Look at and try the options:a.
You can
change the page’s title to make it more meaningful to you and others who you
share it with;b.
Check the “Private” box if you don’t want anyone else to see this bookmark
in your useraccount;c.
Check “Unread” if you want to add this to your list of unread book
marks to read later;d.
Check “Twitter this” if you’
re a Twitter user and you want your to followers see thepage;e.
Add a textual description which will be stored with the bookmark and shared withanyone you share the bookmark with;f.
Add tags so you and others can find the bookmark (more on tags later);g.
Add the bookmark to an existing list in your Diigo account (more on lists later);h.
You can share the bookmark with one or more groups (more on groups later);i.
Click “Save”, “
Save & Send
” or “Cancel”:
i.
“Save” means the bookmark will be saved to your
Diigo account, and all
of the sharing options you’ve selected so far will be auctioned;
ii.
“Save and Send”
means the bookmark will be saved to your Diigoaccount, AND it opens another pop-up window with further options:1.
You can share the bookmark with all of your Diigo friends2.
You can select some friends to share it with3.
You can select “No one. Just a note” I’
ve
no idea
what this does!4.
You can mark the bookmark as “Private”, “Important” and selectto “include quotes”.
a.
Include quotes we’ll
cover later
–
you can bookmark
Web pages with bits of text highlighted or “quoted”.
5.
You can type a message that explains to the recipients why youare sending them this link.iii.
“Cancel” means you can stop trying to save this bookmark and startagain. You’
ll lose any
options and descriptions you’ve entered so far.
By Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultant, 28 June 2009sarah.currier@gmail.com ©2009 Higher Education Academy
2. Bookmarking Flash Content & One-Click Save
Just on the right-hand edge of the Bookmark button there is a small black down arrow/triangle.Click this to see a drop-down menu of options:1.
Click “Bookmark this page” to get exactly the same options in a pop
-up window as above.
2. Click “Collect Flash” to bookmark any Flash content embedded in a page.
This option existsbecause you could have a number of Flash videos or other pieces of Flash content in a single Web
page that don’t have their own URLs. This option means you can bookmark them separately.
a.
You’ll see a little “collect” hyperlink near
each piece of Flash content, with a filmstriplogo by it.b.
Click
“collect”
and you’ll see a small tick appear on the filmstrip logo; the “collect”hyperlink text will change to “collected”.
c.
The Flash content is now bookmarked in your Diigo account.
3. “Remove this bookmark” lets you delete a bookmark from your Diigo account: this will only be
clickable if the page you are on has already been bookmarked by you.
4. Click “One
-
Click Save Options” to set default settings for using the one
-click save button to the leftof the Bookmark button.a.
A small pop-up window will open giving you some options:i.
You can add some default tags. For instance, if you are about to bookmark abunch of employability resources from Southampton University, you could
add “employability” and “Southampton University” as default tags. Then,
you can use the One-Click Tag button (see below under 3. More on One-
Click Save”)
to quickly tag all of the resources one after the other.ii.
You can choose to mark all the bookmarks you use One-Click Save on as
“unread” so they go into your “unread” list on Diigo.
3. More on One-Click Save
To the left of your Bookmark button there is a small book icon with a green + sign. This is the One-Click Save button. Clicking it will save the Web page you are currently looking at as a bookmark inDiigo without having to go through the steps in section 1.a.
This
also means you can’t add tags or a description –
but you can add these later in yourDiigo account or using the toolbar to edit the bookmark.b.
You can add default tags as explained in section 2.4 above.c.
If the page you are on is already bookmarked in your Diigo account this button will appearred.
If you click it now, you can edit the bookmark’s settings and tags using the same pop
-upwindow as noted above in section 1.
4. Finding Bookmarks Again
You can find bookmarks that you have previously saved in a number of ways:
Go to your Bookmarks in your Diigo account on the Diigo website:
,log in, and go to your Bookmarks or
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