By the way, there’s nothing wrong with a bit of “vanity” searching. I actually have a Google Alert feed for my name so I see it right away when anyone mentions me. I think you’re smart to keep track of what your students will see when they search for you–and I’m sure some of them will Google your name.

As for Diigo – I have to confess that I’m using it exclusively now. I do have it set up to auto send my links to my Delicious account though. So many of my friends aren’t ready to step over to Diigo. I’m so glad that Diigo gives us the option to keep both open with out doubling up the work.

I hope your workshop goes well!

I’ll be posting the workshop on Technology for Learning under Web 2.0 Tools Workshop.

Many thanks!

The search feature on either service will give you that result though. Just use search and type in “communication OR marketing”; both services support Boolean operators. That actually will bring up everything that has communication or marketing in the title or tags, but having the search a little broader rather than too narrow seems to be what you want. A broader search lets you browse yourself. If OR is the right operator, sometimes NEAR works (Diigo supports NEAR, but del.icio.us doesn’t).

So, I suppose you have to use the search to initially filter it somewhat, but I think you can get what you want using either service. If there’s a specific search you use often, you can bookmark it so you don’t have to go through search each time.

Or maybe I’m still misunderstanding. You said that “some software” does this. I’m not sure what “Adobe” product you’re referring to–Acrobat Reader maybe?

Do you want the search to do the full text of the actual website instead of just the title and keywords, like Reader’s full-text search? If so, Diigo’s a better choice because it caches each page as you bookmark it and does the full text search. If you highlight the relevant sections in Diigo, you can expand the entire list of annotations within your search result, which would let you skim through the actual content more easily. Is that more like what you want?

Communication:

List all the sources with communication tags

Communication Research

List all the sources with communication+Research tags

Marketing Communication

List all the sources with these two tags.

All of these could then be skimmed through rather than me doing a search every time. I like skimming through all my resources (I am a very efficient skimming reader) so I can pick out if there are any two or three that sources that keep coming up if I were doing a project on Marketing communication resources for example. Maybe they would come up under Marketing, maybe under marketing and communication, maybe all three. I guess it is just a preference I have to be able to skim through all the resources, but to also give them some categories. It is somewhat like the indexing capabilities of some software or the search function in adobe that allows you to see the word in context.