Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Social Bookmarking

During my experience with Social Bookmarking tools, I learned that such tools help alot with organizing yourself and keeping everything saved somewhere where it will not be hard to find. It makes everything very simple, which is a very good thing when you consider the time you want to spend looking for something. With such helpful tools, one is able to keep track of all the information that is being gathered and is also able to organize everything in a very little amount of time. These tools are not time consuming and help the user alot. Diigo is one of the best tools a student could ever ask for. It helps a student alot because say for example the student is asked to do a research paper and needs the works cited, if he or she forgets to cite something and wants to go back to see where it was that they got the information from, all the student does is type the sentence and Diigo will automatically find the exact website that it is from. Unlike Google or Yahoo, Diigo takes you straight to the website and highlights the sentenced you have typed. Google and Yahoo give you millions of sites which include the same words, or many times just a few of those words and not in order. It is much harder and time consuming to use those sites to look for something. Diigo facilitates the work of people and it also saves you alot of time, which is a great advantage to students considering the fact that they sometimes have more than one assignment to complete.