The Best Blogging Platforms for Beginners
By: Casey Botticello
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Journalism, Writing, Technology

23. Diigo

Diigo’s primary function is to help you organize bookmarks to your favorite web pages in an online repository. You can make the bookmarks public to share with others or keep them private. You can also annotate and highlight the pages you’re bookmarking. It also lets you make screen captures of full or partial pages, send links to email, Facebook, and Twitter, and even write a blog post from it.

Diigo has a featured called Enhanced Linkrolls that lets you create a list of bookmarks, filtered by the tags you’ve applied to them.

You can read more effectively with annotation tools as you browse around the web. Add digital highlighters and sticky notes whether on PC, tablets, or mobile, and have them always be where you left them when you return! Print to mark-up? No longer necessary.

Build your personal library in the cloud, with links, pages, notes, pictures etc, never to be lost, and ready to be accessed anywhere. Of course, those digital highlights, sticky notes and screenshots you added while going around the web automatically go into your library.

Say goodbye to broken links and lost treasures The web is dynamic — valuable content you found earlier is often no longer there when needed. Diigo archives the webpages for the links you save. Better yet, the archived pages are fully searchable. So do not just bookmark, save to Diigo!

Provide feedback and catch attention with annotation or screenshots Want to draw attention to a particular paragraph to your Twitter followers? Highlight it and tweet. Want to comment on a student’s writing? Use sticky notes for inline commenting. Want to provide feedback on a web design? Capture the page and mark it up.

Organize your information as little or as much as you want. Since Diigo provides powerful search capabilities, the simple act of saving or annotating something, often with just one-click, will enable you to find it easily later. But of course, when you do want better organization, for easier review, for connecting the dots, for better sharing, for presentation, or whatever, Diigo provides unsurpassed organization capabilities, with both tagging and lists, to suit different needs.

Share information as much or as little as you want One advantage of storing information in the cloud is that you can share them easily when you want to. Each piece of information can be set as private or public on Diigo. If you are an extrovert and like to share your passion and showcase who you are, make public as the default! If you are introvert, keep them all private! Want to send a whole collection to someone? just a few clicks away.

Enable better collaboration on information for any group, large or small. Too little or too much sharing with email? Build a group knowledge repository for your family, your class, your team, or your entire company; each group member can add and subscribe to it, and browse and search it. Better yet, group members can interact with on-the-page annotations. So imagine your class are all reading the same Wikipedia article, and commenting and discussing right on the page!

Pricing:

Diigo offers a straightforward enterprise pricing structure with four plans:

Free — $0

With Ads

Standard — $40/year

No Ads

Unlimited webpage highlights

Unlimited PDF highlights

Unlimited cloud bookmarks

Unlimited cached pages

Unlimited image storage

Import kindle notes and highlights

Professional — $59/year

Everything in Standard

Unlimited outliners

Unlimited PDF storage

Business — $10/user/month

Everything in Professional

Admin console dashboard

Collaborative PDF annotation

Collaborative web annotation

Unlimited team library for images, PDF, and webpages

Advantages:

Read more effectively with annotation tools as you browse around the web. Add digital highlighters and sticky notes whether on PC, tablets, or mobile, and have them always be where you left them when you return.

Great for collaboration

Diigo archives the webpages for the links you save

Disadvantages: