More thoughts on Diigo and Social Bookmarking

As I have gone throughout the week, I have experimented more with using Diigo and further contemplated the idea of social bookmarking. Reading the posts in the class discussion board this week introduced me to many more ideas regarding both. I have to say that the more that I am using Diigo, the more that I think that it will be a helpful tool for many of my future classes. It was suggested to me through the discussion board this week, to take a look at the public feed on Diigo to gain access to many popular bookmarked sites. After taking a look, I discovered a good number of resources that I was previously unaware of. In addition, I also found that by searching for various tags I was able to find information/ websites that I would certainly never have found through my own research. I think that this is what I like the most about the idea of social bookmarking. It allows me to gain access to a wealth of resources in a shorter amount of time because other users have already discovered treasures that they were kind enough to share. Another advantage that I had not really considered regarding social bookmarking, is the fact that should your computer or device fail, all of your bookmarks are saved within "the cloud" and can be easily accessed with another computer or device. This is something that many people in the class discussion board touched upon due to the fact that at one time or another, they have lost valuable information due to a device failure or had to spend a considerable amount of time transferring information/ bookmarked sites from one device to another. Diigo eases the worry of loosing bookmarked information/sites and makes the process of transferring bookmarks from one device to another unnecessary. While I am certainly no expert yet when it comes to using Diigo and social bookmarking, I can definitely say that it is something that I will continue to practice using and I anticipate it being an extremely helpful tool for my future classes.