Diggo Blog

Diggo is is a type of social bookmarking,  With Diggo you can mark bookmark something but and retrieve it on any computer without having to stay on the same computer you found it on.  This is a good thing for students because as high school or college students we use many different computers.  Alot of people use the ones at school, they use their lap tops, and if they have a separate one at home they might use that.  Businesses may use these bookmarks/tags for other co-workers to look at when both working on a similar subject. This will help the all see the same information easily.  This same thing can go for students when working on a project together.  Another feature for Diggo is the ability to highlight things which is very helpful because when you save an entire sight you might only need a paragraph or a few sentences of the sight, and the high lights help you to reach and see those more easily.  With Diggo you can send sights to different groups that also hold Diggo that they might find helpful or interesting. This helps you stay connected through sites you might have in common with other people. These tools are also helpful to the people using it because it keeps your information attainable and easy to navigate through/find.  So with Diggo, people of any education setting or business setting can use Diggo to stay in communication through common interests in sights and keep themselves organized.


-Kirsten

Digital Communication

The use of digital communication, in my opinion, is being used more today than ever.  I know that for me and my friends text messaging and Facebook are our biggest outlet on communication with one another.  Some even Skype or just video chat with one another to keep in touch at a more personal level. Although my friends and I use these to contact each other, many business's use video chats to be able to contact other business's to have meetings. This has cut spending and costs of travel because we don't have to go all  across the country or the world to see someone face to face anymore. Working and socializing through digital communication has helped and harmed the world we live in today.  It's helped with costs (as i mentioned before), ability to communicate with people you would have never been able to communicate without it, and keeps people in contact with one another more easily than ever before.  Its also made some people very socially awkward when it comes to talking to people in person.  This is because its much easier to talk behind the words you type or behind a screen/ camera than it is to keep a conversation with a person face to face. Making some people so used to talking through technology that they almost forget how to talk to someone in person. All in all there are some amazing things that digital communication offers but at the same time we have to make sure we don't replace this type of communication with real in person communication.

-Kirsten