Diigo describes it's purpose as an..
online community for learning people, where information, knowledge and community come together. The new Diigo network creates global communities around information, topics, and knowledge. These communities connect people through the content they collect, while also enabling people to discover and share information that matters to them with others in the network.
Diigo is ideally suited to telecollaborative projects. Geographically dispersed groups can create, via Diigo, an online learning community where conversation takes place on a given topic, photographs and data are shared, and bookmarks are compiled and shared on topics of common interest to the particular group.
The combination of social networking and shared bookmarks is a powerful tool. People with shared interests, or a shared telecollaborative project, can come together for discussion and to share collected (and vetted) websites on that particular topic.
For example, students from the USA and students from another democratic country could each research and share relevant and worthwhile websites on their respective country's election process. Conversation and questions could be posted on Diigo as would the collected bookmarks for websites of interest.
Sites like Diigo (whose logo shows the two lower case letters "i" as facing one another and holding hands) pull together powerful web 2.0 technologies and simplify the process of collecting and sharing information - the perfect ingredients for effective telecollaboration.
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