Emily Barney has made this awesome youtube video about Social Bookmarking and diigo. It’s a great companion to our V3 intro video and answers many “why” and “how” questions for some users. Check it out! (Thanks Emily!)
Add comment April 13th, 2008
One concern of Diigo 3.0 users we hear about is this: ” I already have trouble keeping up with all the other social networks such as Linkedin and Facebook. Why should I maintain yet another social network on Diigo?”
First of all, it is completely ok to be anti-social on Diigo. In this “anti-social mode”, Diigo as simply a great research tool that can really enhance your productivity ~ it is the best web bookmarking and annotation tool you will find. No other social network can make the same claim.
Second, and more importantly, most of the “social” things happening on Diigo do not require any extra effort from you — they are just there to augment your information discovery and sharing. Say for example, you are now browsing the web to learn more about the subject of elearning. You found a few resources on the subject, which you annotated and tagged “elearning”, and now reviewing your findings by the tag “elearning”, you see that you can also view the popular and most recent resources on e-learning from the entire Diigo community. You can also see who are the top contributors on this subject, and what groups are interested in this subject. You can then add these top contributors as your friends or to your watch lists so you will automatically get the latest information they find on elearning. Think of how powerful a “knowledge filter” this aspect can be given the quality of content searched.
If you choose to invite some friends to Diigo, you can keep in touch with them without any extra effort. You will automatically see what their latest interests are from their most recent public bookmarks, which of course can also be an excellent source of information for you. If any associate makes any comment on pages you also bookmarked, you will be notified, giving you a chance to learn their opinion and interact with them as you choose.
In a sense, Diigo is more like “unintentional social networking” that requires minimal effort, as opposed to “intentional social networking” such as Linkedin and Facebook, which do require a lot of effort to maintain. Diigo simply integrates people and knowledge seamlessly making socializing a choice rather than a condition.
1 comment March 28th, 2008
With the launch of Diigo 3.0 to rave reviews, some people also wonder if Diigo has become too social, too “facebookish.” Regarding this concern, we would like to make the following points:
Bottomline? Diigo is a new kind of social network centered around information and knowledge, and is perhaps best referred to as a “social information network“.
Diigo is evolving and innovating rapidly. So stay tuned, as lots more exciting things will be forthcoming!
PS: In this new V3 release, we do provide a Facebook widget. For those who have a Facebook account, click here to check it out!
2 comments March 27th, 2008
Here is a good overview for the new Diigo, a powerful research tool and a knowledge sharing community. “Don’t just read. Highlight, Annotate and Share the Web!”
Please let us know what you think of the new video. If you like it, please help us spread the words and share it with your friends. Thanks!
Add comment March 23rd, 2008
The entire Diigo team is pleased to announce to our readers, and the rest of the world, the new Diigo Version 3 goes live today! In our passion to make Diigo the best in its class, we’ve added features, made our existing features easier to use, and come up with what we think you’ll find is an even more incredible platform than before. Before we give you a peek at all Diigo now has to offer, though, we want to thank each and every one of our users and fans, especially those who helped so much in our beta testing phase.
Thank you Diigo Community!
Despite all that we’ve done to make Diigo really useful, it wouldn’t be what it is today without every one of you. Your help, encouragement, suggestions, ideas, and even the bug reports 
all helped us make sure we stayed on the right track. We added tons of cool features & new innovations, but we needed you to help us make sure those features were easy to figure out and simple to use. So, in a very real sense, all of you who take an interest in Diigo are a valuable part of the Diigo team, and you have as much reason to be proud of today’s launch of Version 3 as we do.
Diigo puts the Social into Bookmarking
We’ve also made a lot of new friends, which, of course, is part of what Version 3 is all about, connecting with people through knowledge and common interests. From the beginning, Diigo has been about more than just social bookmarking, but with this version we also put a real emphasis on the “Social” in “Social Bookmarking” or “Social Annotation”. Social is a big buzz word these days. But different from the typical social networks, Diigo is going “social”, not just for the pure sake of being “social”. In fact, the uniqueness of Diigo’s new social features is the fact that you don’t necessarily need to have a lot of friends to begin deriving the benefits of Diigo. While our users can actively interact with other users if they choose, Diigo’s advanced algorithms and carefully thought-out UI design unobtrusively harness the power of the Diigo community for each individual user and give you the benefit of social information networking with no extra effort on your part!
Our goal was to enable our users to enjoy a greatly increased potential for meaningful and productive discussions anywhere on the Web, and to fully unleash the power of the “writable Web”. We have built upon Diigo’s foundation as a powerful personal research tool with features designed to improve the ease and productivity of collaboration within the office or even across continents to offer our users all the benefits of social networking without the drawbacks.
Harness Collective Wisdom
With every Diigo user tagging and annotating resources online, the Diigo community has collectively created a repository of filtered, annotated content on nearly every subject imaginable. In many cases, you may be able to find resources on a specific subject more quickly by searching Diigo than by using one of the major search engines. In addition, you will have the opportunity to gain unique insight from the public notes and comments of others interested in the subject. Finally, our system recommends news and resources based on your personal interests. This makes it simple for you to keep up to date in any areas of special interest to you.
Share & Discover
When you find something interesting, funny or amazing on the Internet what do you do? You forward it to friends. Diigo offers several methods for sharing bookmarks and notes, so you can also keep in touch and connect with friends effortlessly. And, whenever you want to, Diigo offers multiple ways to help you find people with common interests as well. You can easily form your own community within the larger Diigo community, one focused on the ideas and issues you care about. Whether you hope to increase your productivity at work, promote a cause that is special to you, or just pursue a hobby or passion, a community of users dedicated to the same goal can help you.
You are what you annotate
Remember, you are what you annotate. The sites you find interesting, the public highlights and notes you leave, all these help show your interests and expertise. That helps you to connect with exactly those people who are most like you. Once you’ve found others who share similar interests, you can share resources, benefit each other, and make everyone’s life easier. In other words, Diigo provides social information networking through knowledge-sharing, letting you benefit in a real and practical way.
So with this new release, going beyond web annotation, social bookmarking, and existing social networks such as MySpace, Linkedin, etc, the new Diigo provides a uniquely knowledge-centric social network facilitating knowledge management, sharing and discovery, as well as building social connections and community through content and knowledge. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and we are excited about the possibilities. Going forward, we will relentlessly continue to innovate to make Diigo the best knowledge sharing and management platform for individuals, work groups, and companies.
How to start Diigo-ing
There is a lot to explore in the new Diigo. So make sure you check out our new intro video, what’s new, install the latest toolbar and check out the cool new sidebar, and of course, delve into the new site. Also if somehow you cannot find your favorite feature right away, don’t worry. It has probably been re-arranged somehow. Just check out our new Help section, or come join us in our user forum. Bugs reporting - we’ve tried hard to test through the system as thoroughly as possible. Please do let us know if we have overlooked something. Also, let us know your first impression, likes / dislikes, feedback and suggestion. Lastly, if you like what you see, make sure to help us spread the word!
That’s it for now. Enjoy! And thank you for your continued support to help us make Diigo better and better!
Sincerely,
The entire Diigo team
March 20th, 2008
We’re delighted to learn that blogger, and one of our enthusiastic users, Daniel Hope, has been invited to present at SXSW Interactive and will be featuring Diigo in his talk this Sunday. The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties, and it certainly has become THE event to watch…
Daniel’s session is called Blog on Company Time Without Getting Dooced (note: Dooced = getting fired for your blog) and it will be in Ballroom E at 11:30am, more details here. Daniel and co-presenter, Matt Gierhart, will discuss the various ways they use Diigo’s tools on their personal and client blogs.
A sampling of what will be featured can be found in these articles:
How to Use Diigo: In this article he shows us the many ways he and his team use Diigo to collaborate on stories. In it he demonstrates how a team can use the Daily Blog Post to create stories and link lists simply by browsing and bookmarking the Internet.
How to Blog without using Company Time - or - The 2 Minute Blog Post: In this article he shows us how to use Diigo’s Blog This tool to create a 2 minute blog post.
We’re excited that more and more users are sharing their Diigo experience in various workshops / conferences! if you’re going to be at SXSWi and you would like to see Diigo in action, then drop by Daniel’s discussion.
What is it?: SXSW session Blog on Company Time Without Getting Dooced
Where is it?: The Austin Convention Center (500 E. Cesar Chavez)
What time?: 11:30 am -12:30 pm on Sunday the 9th
Add comment March 6th, 2008
Sorry, haven’t blogged for so long …
Although this blog has not received some “tender loving care” for a while, you can still see us active in user forums (a great place to interact with us.) In fact, for the past many months, the entire Diigo team has been working hard on developing the next generation Diigo, which features substantially improved user experience, and a slew of innovative and powerful functionalities. The new site has incredible amount of details. For those who participate in our closed alpha, million thanks to all of your kind help, constant feedback and encouragement! You guys are awesome!
Just a few more finishing touches. we cannot wait to unveil and share the new Diigo with you all soon!
January 29th, 2008
We are starting to make a whole series of Diigo videos. And we’ve got “attitude” ~ the Diigo’s way
This is an overview of what Diigo is today. There will be a lot more coming as Diigo continues to evolve. Let us know what you think. If you like it, please help us spread the words and share it with your friends. Thanks!
Add comment September 22nd, 2007
We had a blast at Office2.0 Conference last week - a very classy conference. Bravo, Ismael!
While Wade attended sessions and meetings, I spent most of my time around the demo pot area where every station has a new iMac and an external 19″ flat panel displays used for logo and mounted on arms clamped to the table. No setup required - that worked out very well.
Of course, there is the traffic: we met a lot of people and had many great conversations. It is especially awesome to have people come up and introduce themselves as Diigo users. Thanks for stopping by. Very sweet to see more and more Diigo fans out there and we’re meeting you in person.
Among juggling many tasks, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling and talking to a lot of folks lately, so don’t have much time to write blog and interact in our forums (but we do read every single comment, especially with our timely alert now ) Joel has been picking up the slack helping out our users with feedback and issues. He is just super…
I notice that in his IM customized signature he wrote: “every complaint is really a wish”. I think it sums up our team’s spirit quite well - it’s important that we constantly stay in tune with our users, as we are trying to listen and embrace our users’ input, and driving ourselves hard to create a super awesome service that delivers innovations, good user experience and value to them.
cheers,
~ Maggie
Add comment September 14th, 2007
Announcing preview of WebSlides - another exciting innovation by Diigo:
WebSlides is an incredibly easy way to convert your bookmarks to slideshows. You can experience WebSlides at slides.diigo.com. You can also see fresh reviews here.
If you like what you see, we would appreciate if you can share Diigo with your friends, and help get Diigo & WebSlides noticed by blogging, bookmarking, digging. It is the appreciation by our users that keep our entire team working day and night, and weekends too
With WebSlides, Diigo is adding another innovative service to our portfolio of leading-edge tools and services in the area of online knowledge management, sharing and discovery. I promise you will see a lot more innovations from us as we embrace our users’ input and continue to think out of the box and push the envelope.
cheers,
~ Maggie
Add comment September 10th, 2007
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