Exercise #5 — Setup and Configure Social Bookmarks

Manager for Social Networking — (Rev. 2/22/11)

The best way to understand how social bookmarking works, is to set up a social bookmarking tool and start using it. The goal of this lesson is to introduce you to some basic to advanced ways to configure Diigo for managing web links as well as some ways to integrate it with other tools that you have studied.

The Goal:   To set up and configure Diigo for social networking.

·         Control + left-click the links in this tutorial to follow them

·         Checkboxes indicate tasks to complete

• To get started, get an account: Go to http://diigo.com and follow the instructions to create a new acchttp://sloanotc12.onmason.com/exercises/exercise-3-diigo/ount. You will be emailed an activation code with your password.  Try to choose a username that lets me know who you are.
  • Educators might want to apply for Diigo Educator Accounts – these are special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators:  http://www.diigo.com/education
  • Videos and Tutorials:  http://help.diigo.com/home/get-started
  • http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/share/index.php?n=Anthology.Diigoway (see K-12 links on this page)

Diigo Support Resources

General Guidelines

• Tag each of your bookmarks with the class tag: “edit772sp11” so your links will be aggregated and viewable at:  http://www.diigo.com/user/rreo22/edit772sp11 (Whenever possible enter a short comment or description along with your keywords).
• For problems or to share experiences and discoveries use the course Bb9 discussion forums.

Exercise Checklist

o  Create Diigo account and post link to archive

o  Install Diigo bookmarklet in your toolbar for easy bookmarking

o  Bookmark 5-10 links and tag them with the course tag

o  Create/Edit your profile

o  Subscribe to the RSS Feed of your Diigo bookmarks library in Google Reader/Shared Items.

• Request to join my group Edit772 Class and save a bookmark to this group.
• Create a group of your own, make it Public and invite me to join.
• Add me to your My Network by Following Me
• Create a List, make it Public, and send me the link.
• Share your Diigo bookmarks with others

o  Put a Diigo tag roll in your blog sidebar using a Text widget

Exercise Outcomes
Rick’s public bookmarks archive:  http://www.diigo.com/user/rreo22
Edit772 Web2.0 Tools List:  http://www.diigo.com/list/rreo22/edit772_web2ools

Basic Sharing Tasks

o Edit your profile:

Add information that will appear with your picture on your My Networks page. It’s a good way to give the readers of your bookmark library a little more information about you – the collection author- and the groups you belong to.

1.      Scroll to bottom of any page to Edit profile or Account settings

o (OPTIONAL) Import browser bookmarks: http://www.diigo.com/tools/import_all
Diigo uses your folder names as tags to categorize your bookmarks. You can just import a single folder.

o Bookmark and Tag Links: (tag some of the links you have added to the course so far)

1.      Install Diigo bookmarklet or use the one built-in to Firefox browser, if present.

2.      Go to a webpage, then click the Diigolet you installed in browser

3.      When the Add Bookmark window appears, you should tag the link. Your current tag list will appear and you can choose from existing ones, but if you are new you will have to type new tags in the field called tags (separate by space and put multi word phrases in parentheses). Be sure to include our course tag “edit772sp11” with some of your bookmarks so we can all see how the bookmarks from many people can be aggregated.

4.       Apply this to some of the links you have found in this course so far.

1. Find the URL for your Diigo Public Library and add the link to the front page of the course wiki. Mine can be found at:  http://www.diigo.com/user/rreo22 Yours will be at http://www.diigo.com/user/<yourname> Replace the <yourname> with the name you used to sign up for Diigo
2. 2. Subscribe to your Diigo RSS feed with your Google reader account.  Click the RSS icon at the top right of your MyLibrary page to subscribe to the feed there.  My feed is http://www.diigo.com/rss/user/Rreo22 — you could just replace my user name with yours and paste the URL into Google reader Subscriptions. *Please add it to your Shared Items so I can view it.

• Create a List – Lists are another way to organize topical lists of bookmarks.
  • Create a list of your own by going to your Library and find My Lists in the left side bar.
  • Use the Create new list at the bottom of the sidebar, or click the Edit link by My Lists and use the Create a List button next page.
  • Fill out the fields and make the list Public so I can see it on your Profile page.

 

• Check out my Edit772 tools list: http://www.diigo.com/list/rreo22/edit772_web2ools
  • Click the Play as Webslides on the top right of the screen.

Misc. Diigo’s Functionalities

• Public/Private bookmarks
• Tagging – one-word descriptors
• Snapshot – You can upload a snapshot while bookmarking using the Diigo toolbar.
  This is best for important or temporary pages that you really want to preserve, and also for pages that are behind password. PDF and other file formats can also be uploaded. Once submitted, you should see the snapshot in your library within seconds to a minute. You can take snaphots of the same url at different times if you are interested in how the page changes over time.
• Highlighting & Sticky Note (Location Specific, w/ability to get annotated link) Users can highlight webpages with multiple colors and annotate directly on the web (private & group annotations only) as they read online. By seamlessly integrating bookmarking, tagging, highlighting, clipping, sharing, web annotating, archiving and full-text search, users can collect, organize and share online information quickly and effectively.

Other Features:

• Cross-post to Delicious.
• Support Twitter/Facebook and Blog login
• Teacher Console / Firefox Toolbar

Social Networking Tasks

Groups — You can join (or apply to join) groups within your area of interest. Doing so will mean that you can be notified by email of any new bookmarks that other people in your niche have made. It’s like doing research, or continuing professional development while you sleep.

• To begin, go to http://groups.diigo.com/group/edit772-fall-2010 and APPLY TO JOIN MY GROUP named Edit772 Class. Then once you are given access, save a bookmark or two to this group.
• Create a group of your own, make it Public and invite me to join by going to my Profile (http://www.diigo.com/profile/rreo22) and clicking the Invite to Group link.
• My Network (a stream of bookmarks and annotations from people that you choose to follow).
  Go back to my Profile and click to the Follow Me button (top right) to follow me and add me as a Professional to your network.  This is a link to very short, useful screencast of how this network feature works.

• Setup groups to share resources over a period of time (from experts or between students)
• Collect online source materials for research (tag to rate or add to description)
• Cross-post to blog or Twitter for broader distribution and commentary

Your network might be empty. Go ahead add me to your network.  You now have a stream of my bookmarks entering your network page. You have a sense for what I’m reading. Your bookmarks + my bookmarks.

Here’s where things get viral. Notice that after you add me to your network, you have the option view Rick Reo’s network of followers. Go ahead. These are the streams of bookmarks I’m paying attention to.

Once you have added a host of other people to your network you can share links directly to them via the tags you add when you bookmark a site.

It started with your bookmarks. Went to my bookmarks. Now you can begin searching through my network of bookmarks. If that person seems to be bookmarking things interesting to you, add them to your network. Choose your own adventure. Go back to my network or visit the networks of the new people you had added to your network. (Slightly adapted from David Muir tutorial –David Muir’s Simply Delish guide)

o Put a Diigo tag roll in your blog using a Text widget

1.      Login to Diigo, go to Tools menu at the top of screen, then to Diigo Tools side panel and click more tools link. Find the Tag roll menu: http://www.diigo.com/tools/tagroll

2.      Follow the instructions to set up the kind of tag roll you want.

3.     Copy the Javascript code provided and paste into a Text widget in your onMason blog (or a wiki or Blackboard site, right).  I have put an example up in Bb9 Course Resources and see my onMason blog sidebar.

onMason Directions

1.   Login in to the dashboard of your onMason blog

2.   Go to Appearance menu> submenu= Widgets

3.   Choose the sidebar you want to add your Diigo tag roll to.

4.   From Widgets list, choose Text widget and Add it/Drag it to the sidebar.

5.   Click the Edit link on the widget to configure. Paste the script from Diigo tag roll screen to the textbox and click Save.  Preview your blog.

NOTE:  Currently, I use Diigo and delicious.  I use two social bookmarking apps because I’m transitioning from one to the other. Fortunately, I can save to Diigo and it will automatically add a copy of the bookmark to my delicious account.

Appendix A:  Educational Uses (for reference only)

1. Diiging digital annotated bibliographies with Diigo

Shelley Rodrigo (rrodrigo@mesacc.edu)/Mesa Community College
Diigo V4: Research ~ annotate, archive, organize from diigobuzz on Vimeo.

 

1. Annotation Assignments for Teachers: http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Social-Bookmarking-and-Annotating
2. How to Blog using Diigo:  http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2009/11/2/10-reasons-to-use-diigo.html