I’ve been using WordPress for a good number of years. Before that I used a now ‘dead’ service.
All up I’ve been ‘blogging’ for about a decade – but didn’t really call it that for five or six years until Judy set me straight. In fact in the first half of the naughties, I wasn’t in education — and in the future, who knows …
Times obviously change, and I seem to spend more time ‘encountering’ things than I once did and spend a great deal of time reaping information from networks, that often I just flick back to the network. Judy’s written about her changing use of media — so once again, I’m late to the party.
I’ve been looking for something to suit. I use Posterous, but mostly it’s a digital-dumpster for me. I fire things from Twitter and Facebook to it that I might (and don’t always) want to go back to. I use a few gadgets on Twitter to fire RT links to Diigo and Delicious, which is more like a teenager’s bedroom floor. In productivity, I’m a massive user of Evernote which is a collection of cave-wall scratchings of ideas and half-finished notes. When I want to get more serious I use Mendeley and Open Office – simply because it’s really easy to store, organise and obligingly cite research in an attempt to support my suppositions.
The new kid on the block is Amplify. I’m told people have to join to comment – but I’m finding it a great light weight way to actually write a weblog of thoughts, ideas and encounters. I like that I can harvest from it, so fire posts to secret-gardens that I have intention of sharing – but use as a sort of archive – just in case Amplify disappears. That is a bit like never backing up your hard drive to me, having lost much of what I was thinking in the early part of 2000s, I’m conscious of the fragility of Web2.0ism.
I’ve added a link over to the right – and guess it will probably contain more unfinished thoughts and observations than the trusty WordPress blog which I’ll continue to write – but perhaps less frequently.
I find it – and so I imagine others do – really hard to put borders around writing. I totally get that may über blogs are positioning pieces or revenue generators — and are written in that way. I don’t think I’m there yet, and still enjoy writing things down, that later I revisit and have another subconscious argument with myself. I may have caught myself trying to do/be something I’m not that good at recently, so the voices in my head are telling me to try something new.
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I’m curious about your comment that Diigo and Delicious are like a teenager’s bedroom floor. I’m trying to set up bookmark sharing for a work group and am wondering about pluses and minuses as well as if there is anything else out there to consider. Which of those would you choose if you had to pick one?
Your blog is still in my Reader and I used to read regularly but as a new teacher, I get overwhelmed and somethings fell by the wayside.
Diigo as you can flick all your Diigo links to Delicious anyway. For L&T efforts, Diigo has a stronger toolkit for educators. I’d suggest Diigo/Evernote/Slideshare three simple tools that have a big impact on managing that messy bedroom floor, and a core set of tools that teachers can use very well, with ease.
Thank you! I toyed with both of them a while ago but am ready to jump to a better organization system.