During week 4, my group explored different social bookmarking websites. Social bookmarking is a completely new concept to me and so looking at online tools such as Diigo, Delicious and Mendeley has been an interesting experience.
Diigo
I had never even heard of Diigo prior to this exercise but upon discovering it, I have found it to be a handy website, allowing you to bookmark different webpages and save them in one safe place.
Thanks to my group members I was able to export all my browser bookmarks/favourites so that they are all accessible via the Diigo website. This tool will be particularly useful when using multiple computers/devices.
Diigo also allows users to organise bookmarks using metadata- particularly via tags. Using tags enabled me to arrange all my bookmarks according to subject. This has been particularly helpful when sorting through my RMIT bookmarks.
Alas, upon trying to log back into Diigo a week after setting up my account, I realised that I have forgotten my password and the particular email I used to set up my account. I will now need to backtrack and try to find my password or else I will have to create a new account and start all over again!!
Mendeley
As a group, we also explored the social bookmarking app, Mendeley. Mendeley is a fantastic little app! Not only does it allow you to export your references from Endnote as well as other sites but it also enables you to find scholarly articles regarding the topic you are researching. It is as simple as right clicking a particular reference and then clicking 'related documents.'
What I am having trouble understanding is whether or not Mendeley could be used to replace Endnote for referencing. Mendeley certainly is much simpler to use than Endnote and I would definitely recommend it to those who are unfamiliar with Endnote. Knowing this, I will need to explore Mendeley a bit more before I could comfortably say that it could potentially replace Endnote.
Despite the ease of use of bookmarking tools such as Diigo and Mendeley, due to privacy issues I still find myself rather weary about storing such information on the internet.
Hey Christina! Great discussion of both Diigo and Mendeley! I have found it hard to remember both passwords and usernames as well to some of my accounts! The disadvantage of having too many accounts! Hopefully you will be able to find your password! :) I love the little cartoon you put up in your post as well!
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ReplyDeleteLove the cartoon - it is definitely testing the memory remembering all the passwords and which email address we have used.
Mendeley sounds like a good resource to use especially that it leads you to other relevant resources- great tip to share
Keep up the amazing work
Hi Christina! you had posted lovely cartoon, I think we are suffer from the same problem which is we have many account for different tools. This leads to forgetting our password, but if we write the details of our account immediately it could be useful way to save the account. Moreover, I believe mendeley is important tool for us in our study.
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Hi Christina, Luisa, Nouf and Lisette, I haven't tried Mendeley yet, but will do because our group did really well with it. I've tried Diigo before and still have an account, but found that using the interface was harder that it probably should have been. I do like to bookmark physically though, just click on it on my tab and there it is, Susanne
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