Social Bookmarking & Excel vs. Google Docs

Social bookmarking is a way to save your bookmarks online and share them with others. All your bookmarks and tags are made public for easy sharing. Of course, you can make them private but there is really no point to that. Making your bookmarks public, allows others to use and benefit from your tags and makes sharing very simple. Sharing the bookmarks contributes to the social networking purose of a site like diigo or delicious.
I created a diigo page last semester and I use it for my job all the time. I bookmark my favorite websites and can find them no matter if I am at home, work or school because I can access my diigo page anywhere, anytime on whatever computer I am currently on. It helps me as a student becasue I have bookmarked all the websites for standards and lesson plans and I can access them anytime I need them. I have several different websites bookmarked for worksheets and lesson plan ideas that help when I am developing lesson plans for a class.
As a teacher, social bookmarking can help me because my collegues and I can share the latest websites we have found and it makes doubles or even triples our resources without me personally spending hours and hours trying to find relevant websites. The tags make it easy because I will be able to see all of my coworkers tags and be able to search for the websites on the subject or content area I need at the current time.

If my school district was switching to google docs, I would have to argue against it. I am just recently getting better on Excel and I think google docs makes using a spreadsheet so much more confusing. It is hard to navigate around google docs spread sheet. I do like that it can be shared easily with others but I think taking the extra step with using Excel and emailing it to others in an attachment is worth the little extra work. I am not a fan of google docs. For example. when I had to do a project in google docs last semester, I choose to do the pet pictograph and I could not figure out how to put a picture in my bar graph to create a pictograph. Excel was so easy to figure out how to insert a picture into the bar graph and make a pictograph. I wasted a lot of time on google docs trying to figure out how to do something as simple as insert a picture. Google docs is not as easy to work on as Excel and I do not think any school district should switch from Excel to google docs.