Diigo for Educators
The social bookmarking service, Diigo, enjoyed some good exposure with a Robert Scoble interview this past July. Diigo features quite a few tools and one that I’ve appreciated the most is the annotation tool (e.g., highlighting, sticky notes) and this is one area in which I think they really distinguish themselves from Delicious. Another distinctive feature to Diigo is that one of its target audiences has been educators and this makes sense given the popularity of social bookmarking tools among educators.
Now Diigo is offering special Educator accounts where teachers can create social bookmarking groups for their individual classes. As a complement to this, they offer some helpful privacy features in which preferences can be configured to limit communication to just those in the class. It doesn’t cost anything and the ads that appear are limited to education-related sponsors
. Depending on the kind of reception they get with this new move, there might be a significant percentage of educators out there who would be more than willing to pay a small, reasonable fee for an ad-free option.