Organizing Bookmarks and Information on the Web

There are benefits to using both DIIGO and Scoop.it. I think both sites are great ways of storing information based on certain topics. However, there are also some advantages that the sites have over each other.

DIIGO allows you to highlight text within the webpage. This is an interesting feature that Scoop.it does not have. What is cool about this too is that when you open DIIGO in another tab or on another computer, what you had highlighted will still be highlighted. This makes finding information on the webpage much easier. Instead of having to re-read the page and find what you were looking for you can simply just look where you highlighted. Another feature that DIIGO has that Scoop.it does not, is the ability to tag the webpages you find. After collecting so much material on different subjects, it would be extremely difficult to look through all the different pages just to find ones that are relevant to what you need. The tagging that DIIGO allows you to to makes a list on the side of your library. All you have to do when you are looking for a specific subject or theme is go through and click the tags that are relevant to that subject. The webpages you found and tagged are then easy to find.

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Some of the benefits of Scoop.it are that you can create specially themed "folders" to hold the webpages that you found. You become a curator of the information that you choose to find. I also like that people can comment on the pages that you have found. This allows for people to communicate how they feel about certain materials or if they have any materials that are relevant to what you have posted. I also think finding relevant and worth while material can be very time consuming and difficult, so it is nice that they offer suggestions based off of what you are looking for.

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These sites both allow for users to follow each other. I think that they are both great sites to have because they give you a place to put all that information that you couldn't possibly hold in bookmarks or saved material. I also like that you can access these libraries anywhere and are not held down to just one computer. I believe that instead of bookmarking like crazy, which I am thoroughly guilty of, I will use these sites to create a neat and tidy space for my saved materials.