23 Mobile Things: 7. Content Saving & Sharing #23ThingsMN

Thing 7 talks about the challenge of saving and sharing digital content: “ideas, essays, pictures, blogs, news sites.” This is was one of my big challenges as I stepped into the role of a Technology Integration Specialist. I was finding so much information, saving it to multiple locations, and I wanted to be able to pull it up when needed.

In this post, I’ll discuss Pinterest and Bit.ly, but I’ll also discuss the main bookmark tools that I have used: delicious and Diigo.

I was late into the Pinterest game. It was not that I didn’t see the power in Pinterest. I knew that, once I started digging into that world of ideas, I may not be able to pull myself out. I created an account and let it sit for months. I first started pinning ideas for making metal jewelry. When my daughter became a fan of Rainbow Loom projects, I created board for that. And, recently when I found a house to dream about, I have explored decorating and organizing ideas. I know that there are professional Pinterest boards, but I’ve kept most of my Pinteresting to personal ideas.

Bit.ly is a site that allows you to save links, create short urls, and create QR codes. This is one short link creator that allows you to easily customize the URL. This helps to make sharing URLs so much easier. My favorite part of the site is that analytics that come with the links. I can see the traffic of when links have been accessed. I don’t use it, though, as a place to store my links. This would be quite overwhelming.

When I first started organizing my professional links, I used Delicious. I loved the ease of use, the tagging capabilities, the tag cloud, and many more unique features. But, Delicious was bought and after that acquisition, many of my favorite features went away. It was then that I exported my bookmarkes and brought them into Diigo.

Diigo was actually my very first post in my 2012 366 Blog:  Day 1 of 366: Diigo, the Power Tool. Diigo is a powerful bookmarking tool. With Diigolets in my browsers, I can add a link to my collection in one or two clicks. I have over 2,000 links in My Library. I do have to admit that I have over 150 that are untagged because I have simply entered them into Diigo. I love that I can categorize the topics. My top tags include Reading Research, Science, Interactives, and Web 2.0. This collection is about five years old, so the original Web 2.0 tools may be out of date. But, at least I know that I won’t be sitting at my work computer looking for a link that I had saved at home.

There’s a lot more to Diigo that simply bookmarking, though. I do not take advantage of many of these features. Diigo allows a user to track highlights and notes on websites. It is a very powerful research tool. Diigo is a social network, so that one can look at other’s bookmarks, share links with groups, and connect with other bookmarkers.

Look for my Diigo links at https://www.diigo.com/user/jenlegatt 

Do you have a Diigo account? If not, how do you organize your bookmarks?

 

 

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