In going through this assignment, I realized how much my online self is like my actual self. Most of my bookmarks were things that I would classify as "happy", "funny" or "optimistic" which are three things that I try to be on a daily basis. Additionally, there is very little, if any, semblance of organization in my web browser and on my computer. Up until this point in my life, I have managed to survive without setting up a strong system of keeping careful track of things, but I believe that needs to change now. As we start this program and as I realize the duties of my hopeful profession, it's time for me to "grow up" in that sense. And this website, which was only brought to my attention because of this assignment, will play a huge role in that organization. All in all, I'm grateful for the opportunity to discover such a helpful tool and I'm excited to see what others have to say about their websites.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Organizing Your Online Life
If you are anything like me, your bookmarks are completely overflowing with useless pages that you thought were interesting three years ago. And with half of these bookmarks, you can't make any sense of why you felt it was worth marking in the first place. Occasionally you find a gem, (20 year old Casey bookmarked a page about "the 35 manliest mustaches of all time") but most of these pages have long since eclipsed your interest. For this reason, I was super excited when I got matched with my website for this assignment. Diigo, is an incredible useful tool for anyone that spends a reasonable amount of time using the interweb. Through it, you can bookmark pages, add sticky notes to websites to remind yourself of something on a later visit, and highlight passages that you would like to remember among other things. The most convenient thing about the website, is that anytime you do one of the above functions, it automatically puts it into a very sortable and accessible library on Diigo's website. Best of all, the website is free to use and starts with a fantastic instructional video explaining how to do everything. An accurate comparison of how I felt when discovering this website, is how Michael Scott feels about Wikipedia.
In going through this assignment, I realized how much my online self is like my actual self. Most of my bookmarks were things that I would classify as "happy", "funny" or "optimistic" which are three things that I try to be on a daily basis. Additionally, there is very little, if any, semblance of organization in my web browser and on my computer. Up until this point in my life, I have managed to survive without setting up a strong system of keeping careful track of things, but I believe that needs to change now. As we start this program and as I realize the duties of my hopeful profession, it's time for me to "grow up" in that sense. And this website, which was only brought to my attention because of this assignment, will play a huge role in that organization. All in all, I'm grateful for the opportunity to discover such a helpful tool and I'm excited to see what others have to say about their websites.
In going through this assignment, I realized how much my online self is like my actual self. Most of my bookmarks were things that I would classify as "happy", "funny" or "optimistic" which are three things that I try to be on a daily basis. Additionally, there is very little, if any, semblance of organization in my web browser and on my computer. Up until this point in my life, I have managed to survive without setting up a strong system of keeping careful track of things, but I believe that needs to change now. As we start this program and as I realize the duties of my hopeful profession, it's time for me to "grow up" in that sense. And this website, which was only brought to my attention because of this assignment, will play a huge role in that organization. All in all, I'm grateful for the opportunity to discover such a helpful tool and I'm excited to see what others have to say about their websites.
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I enjoyed reading yet another great post. Maybe the humanities people should tutor the stemmers on how to improve our blogs :)
ReplyDeleteDiigo sounds like a very useful tool. I too have bookmarks from years ago and cannot part with them because I am afraid I will never find them again! Hopefully someone in my group has Diigo and I can learn how to use it.
Great post-
__I can really relate to the bookmark problem. Part of that problem was losing some really important ones because of a brash spring cleaning or losing something forever because I didn't want to add another thing to my task bar.
ReplyDelete__There will be so many websites and links that people give me for ideas. Using Diigo should at least help me categorize them so I can ignore them if I want, but not have to dig through thousands of emails to find a nifty one I forgot about. I've also got a bad habit for crashing computers, so I tend to lose a lot of bookmarks. :(
__I love the way you work in the office to your postings.