Bookmarking

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Delicious: []
Delicious is an easy to use bookmarking tool that allows its users to gather and arrange web resources. Users can save videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or articles into themed stacks for easy access or sharing. Delicious can be added to the browser bar which makes additions quick and easy. Stacks can be kept private, or published and shared. Because there is no limit to what a stack theme can be educators, non-educators, students, non-students, etc. can use Delicious to organize any topic and share and collaborate on said topic. This would be handy for student research, or great for librarians to guide patrons to/through subjects/topics.

Diigo: []
The image above says it all… Diigo is a bookmarking tool very similar to Delicious. It can be used on any device. Everything is saved to the cloud. With the browser bar addition, users can include digital highlighting and sticky notes to web content. Diigo is definitely user friendly and convenient. Bookmarking is organized by tags. The snapshot feature is great, because it saves the page “forever”. No more frustration when you realize the page you were reading has been changed, or removed. I can see many students and educators doing homework with Diigo. It seems like a great tool for sharing notes!

Evernote: []
Evernote is a great organizational tool. It helps organize your life digitally like a planner would. If you’re a techy then this is even better than a calendar or planner. Like Delicious and Diigo, Evernote can be accessed from ANYWHERE, even your phone. Evernote can be saved on your task bar. Images, web content, etc. can be “clipped” and added very easily to your Evernote account. It even recognizes hand written word… pretty handy for scanned contributions (keep in mind people still write on paper). This resource would be handy for smartphone users and/or people who work with computers frequently. I see this tool being the paper organizer’s replacement.

Google Bookmarks []
Google Bookmarks is okay in comparison to the resources mentioned above. I use Google Bookmarks because I’m a Google user, but I don’t see the appeal for non-Google users. It is very much like adding to your favorites folder, but managing and organizing is a little more user-friendly. One thing I HATE about bookmarking with Google is that titles can be the exact same, but if you capitalized the first word in one and not the other, then they are different categories.