Thing 7: Content Saving and Sharing
Thing 7 is especially
interesting for me because I work regularly for two different counties and
infrequently (subbing) for a third county. As part of Job 1, I work as a
traveling associate librarian so I travel to 2-3 job sites weekly. Job 2 I am
anchored at one site, but am only there 3 days a week. In a typical week I work
3-5 different job sites for 2-3 different county library systems. While I love
the travel and variety, this means that often nothing can be stored on a
computer and needs to be “in a cloud” somewhere so that I can have access to it
no matter which job site I am at for the day. I use a lot of email to do this
and while that works well for certain items, for others it is just clunky, so I
was excited to explore different “cloud storing” options that I might be able
to use on a daily basis.
After reading through
both apps, I decided to try Pinterest. This is an app that has received a lot
of hype in recent years and I know a lot of my friends use it because they have
their Facebook and Pinterest accounts linked. Nonetheless, I was kind of
excited to try it and see what it is all about and see how I could incorporate
this into both my personal and professional life.
Conveniently, Pinterest is connected with Facebook so all I had to do is link my accounts for log in information (I chose not to publish my Pinterest items to Facebook). After a few minutes doing a general account browse through I decided to start checking out some categories and utilize the search feature to find topics that might be of interest to me. I must say, it's a lot of fun and I can see how a lot of people can easily spend a lot of time on this site!
I think it's great
because there are a lot of things offline that I look at, go "oh
cool!" and want to file away for future use (gift ideas, decorating ideas,
crafts, DIY projects, etc.), but then have a hard time getting said idea from
book page to some place safe AND actually remembering to consult said spot when
I actually am searching for the idea some umpteenth month later. Pinterest is
convenient because all the ideas can be stored in one place (boards can
separated into categories such as “crafts,” “cooking,” “DIY” etc., but it's all
under the same account and the same website) and are easily accessible in the
future so long as I have an internet connection.
Also, it's just kind of
fun to browse and see what ideas are out there for library bulletin board, book
displays, crafts, story times and other library orientated services as well as
browsing for some personal interests of mine such as crafts, DIY, creating
natural beauty products and healthy cooking.
I'd say that Pinterest
is a useful website/app that is fun and useful for both pleasure and
professional ventures. While I may not be able to pin things that are not
connected to Pinterest, the number of items on Pinterest are quite a few that I
could easily see myself browsing and saving pins and then just resorting back
to email or Google Drive for other “cloud” saving like I do now.
If you’ll please now
excuse me I have some “pinning” to do!
