My name is Liz and I am in the Master’s of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Science (started the program in January 2014). I am writing this blog as part of an assignment for LIBR 559M: Social Media for Information Professionals.<\/p>\n
I use a variety of social media in my personal life each day. I have had personal blogs in the past but have ended up deleting them all at one point or another.\u00a0I use Goodreads to track and share all of the books that I read. I also use Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram. I know that Pinterest has its critics, but I find it quite useful for organizing things like recipes, things that I like about particular cities, and even historic photos. 99% of the time spent on Facebook seems like a waste (or worse<\/a>)—but I know that if I didn’t have an account I’d also miss out on a lot of information and updates from friends and organizations. I “follow” a lot of organizations including libraries.<\/p>\n I have a twitter account that I have tried using intermittently but I have never really enjoyed using twitter. For jobs past and present (including for a museum and libraries) I’ve used the following social media platforms: blogs, facebook, twitter, and flickr. I actually really enjoy using social media for organizations\/professionally, much more than using it personally.<\/p>\n In my personal life I use Feedly to keep track of various blogs that I follow, including a variety of library blogs and library job sites. For this class I plan to set up a hootsuite account to keep track of blog postings. I’ve heard hootsuite mentioned a lot and it seems like a good thing to know how to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Liz and I am in the Master’s of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Science (started the program in January 2014). I am writing this blog as part of an assignment for LIBR 559M: Social Media for Information Professionals. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libraryliz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}