Groups

(A) Set up your own group

Under Communities » Groups, or Home » My Groups, click "Create A Group" button:

Tips: Pick a good name for your group Proper Keywords and Category will help others to easily discover your pubic group Choose your group URL carefully - this is the only field that cannot be edited later Explore several privacy and membership admission control options available. Should you change your mind on any of these settings, edit under "Manage Group"

(B) Invite people to join group

During the Step 2 of creating a new group, simply enter your friends' email, or you can choose from your diigo Address Book (see Friends section for more details), or Import Email from external address book source. Check off the invitees and click "Invite" to send.

Or, once you've finished creating a group, you can also easily invite others to your group by going to Home » My Groups;
In each group, select "Invite Others":

(A) Within the Group View

As you browse through your group » Group Bookmarks in expanded view, you can easily interact with other group members by adding your page comment or append additional comment to the group sticky notes:

(B) Within Annotated Page View

As you browse through any group annotated webpage, not only you can see all the group highlights / sticky notes superimposed right on the original page, by mousing-over the highlight or floating note, you can also add and follow-up with additional comment. It’s like carrying on a threaded discussion with other group members right on the page!

In addition, if you open up the sidebar, This URL » Annotations tab, and use See » select Group view filter, you can also see all annotations by the group at a glance and directly add your comment there as well. Click the highlight in sidebar will lead you directly to the original page in-situ sticky note.

For group member

• Subscription to group email alert: see Monitor Group Activities
  

  

  
  
• Group Widget: codes to display your group in your blog/ site

For group owner

There are many options and controls to manage your Diigo group.

• Group Overview: Edit all group description, group avatar, and privacy / membership / alert setting.
  
  
  

• Manage Members: You can grant any number of members as a moderator with editing right, ban any member, or restore their membership.

  If you set the group that requires members to apply for membership first, then review any pending requests at "Pending Members" tab

  
  

  Note: Through Group » Members, you can also get a good overview of group members' activities sorted by activity, bookmarks / posts count, join date & alphabetical listing:

  
  

• Manage Forum: see Group Forum for more details
• Group Tag Dictionary: see Group Tag Dictionary for more details.

Explore groups

• Browse through public groups by category: “Browse by Group Category” in View Groups
• Full text search support to search a group: “Find / Join a group” search box in View Groups
  (note: private group owner has the option to allow his/her group to be searchable. Of course, even if the private group is shown in the search result, the group access will be restricted according to the membership requirement set by the group owner.)

• Find “Related Groups” by your or community tags:

  As you pull up any tag-specific result within Diigo, we will dynamically analyze the content and randomly show some “Related Groups” based on those public groups’ expressed interest. Nice way to explore interesting public groups!

  
  

Join A Group

• When you see a public group that you’re interested, simply click “Join Group”.

  Depending on the group setting, you will either be automatically joined as a new group member, or your Join Group request will be pending and await for the group owner’s review and approval.

• To join a private group, you will receive an email invitation or you can also check your Dashboard for any group invite status.