Diigo

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1. The name of this tool is Diigo. Diigo stands for Digest of Internet Information, Groups and other stuff.

2.Diigo is used to bookmark websites and highlight web pages for work and school. You can also share bookmarks with friends, colleagues, and co-workers, as well as point out where on the page you think they should look, with highlighting and sticky notes. A sticky note comes up as a little yellow square on the page, when you click on it, a larger box that you can type in appears. There can be comments and other things on the sticky notes, you can edit what is typed on the sticky note as well.

3.You can access this tool by going to www.diigo.com. It has a toolbar which anyone can install. There are different forms for different web browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It comes up on the right side of your toolbar next to "customize google chrome" (if you are using Google Chrome). The toolbar can be used on most of the web browsers. It will help you access all of the tools that are on diigo.

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5.Diigo is a helpful and useful tool! It helps people to have an easier way to navigate the internet. Diigo makes going to sites on separate computers is so much easier. You just need to sign in and you can access all of your bookmarks, comments, and notes. It also has a social networking system. You can send messages to your friends, colleagues, and co-workers, and comment on their pages and notes as well.

6.Diigo Groups are another of the many great things that you can do with Diigo. There are groups for many things; you can be in a group for Dinosaur fans, or History teachers, or even Astrologers. Once you have joined a group, you can chat with other people who are in the group and can make new friends and meet new people and collaborate on projects. Groups can have different privacy settings. Some groups can only be accessed by people who are invited into them by the person who made it; these are "private" groups. Other groups are open to anyone who wants to join them; a person can just click on "join group" and they will be a member of the group. These are "public" groups.

7. Diigo tags are categories that certain bookmarks, pictures and videos can fall under. You can customize tags, or you can use the ones that have been provided by Diigo. Some tags are: funny, sports, electronics, food, and landscapes. With tags you can search a tag in your pictures or bookmarks or videos and it will narrow down the options on the page. This way you do not need to scroll through hundreds of pictures, and you can just find a few that have to do with what you need to find.

8. Webslides are an easy way to make your bookmarks and feeds a live web page in a slideshow format. This way you can take web pages straight from their original location and make them into slides to create a fast and easy slideshow with a lot of information.

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