Rudai Twenty three : Making it all work together

Social media management

I ignored Flipboard as its strictly a mobile app and went straight to Hootsuite. I had heard of it in passing before but never knew what it was or how to use it. 

I tried out sending a scheduled post to twitter and then tried to send a post across my Facebook and Twitter accounts. They both worked. I can really see the usefulness of this app for organisations. It would be make the handling social media aspect of work much easier.  Events can be advertised across a wide spectrum and reach many more people than would say an email or poster. 

The scheduled posting on twitter is something I came across before at a conference. The speaker had prearranged tweets to sent during her speech. I found this a bit odd. I see this better used to send out reading material or examples after the conference. 

The only thing I would say about it is that for personal social media accounts it can be difficult to invoke permission of access. Which could be a security risk for your data. For work organisations such as a library's this may not be too much of a problem. 

Hootsuite is a great way of managing your organisations social media output at a reasonable price. 

 

Rudai eight : Curation tools

Pretty Pictures

I heard of curation tools but never used them before now. The first tool I tried was Pintrest. It seems strange to have something made up almost entirely of graphics and pictures. Its very visual and pretty. I can see the use if your building or converting room space and want design ideas. There is lots of ideas for colour schemes and shelving and furniture. 

I use it now for reading materials I can put together lists of books that I saw reviewed and can get an image of their cover so I can recognise them.  

But other than images there is not a lot else there. Some context maybe missing as there is few accompanying words.

anyway I had a go and created a few boards of my interests

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I had a go at flipboard too. I liked this though I had some trouble setting up my magazine as the articles I had "flipped" never appeared till I had logged out and in again. I think this is very useful as it can be used to collate notes and interesting articles for projects or about an area for public libraries. It also is very visual with large pictures and lots of images that link to the article. There is a large amount of library related articles for professionals on a range of topics library design and nation library collections. I had a go at creating a magazine and just flipped some articles that piqued my interest that I'll come back too.


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The only one of the tools discussed I had some experience with was the last one. I've read some Storify pages after some missed libchats. I've found them a great way to have followed a discussion or debate. As often what appears in my feed is only half of the story. 

I enjoyed learning how to use these tools. I'll definitely be using them again for any course I do.