{"id":10,"date":"2010-07-18T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-07-18T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T01:42:00","slug":"discovery-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/2010\/07\/18\/discovery-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading the affordances\/contraints of different social media tools posted by my class mates I was sold on creating an account in Twitter<\/a> and Delicious<\/a> for the discovery exercise. I find time management an issue when devoting time to social media tools, such as microblogging or social networking, but I am happy to try these tools for this class and hopefully keep up after too. I have an extensive “favorites” collection in Firefox and in my Zotero<\/a> account so did not see the value of Delicious until now. Also, if my Firefox ever crashes again then I can have my websites in the cloud so that I won’t lose them or can access them from anywhere.<\/p>\n

I already have an account in LibraryThing<\/a> and GoodReads<\/a>. I use LibraryThing to catalog my personal books and to get recommendations for leisure reading. I just signed up with GoodReads as a way to network with others and explore the world of reading at large. This account is still in the starter stage.<\/p>\n

I also use Google Docs<\/a> and PB Works<\/a> (wiki) for school and personal activities. I created a Slideshare<\/a> account, but have to admit that I never took it beyond the starter stage. Maybe now that I am managing my social\u00a0 media accounts I should get on that too. Even though I don’t manage my account as I would like to I still use Slideshare to access others work.<\/p>\n

Flickr<\/a> is my favorite choice for finding great images. I also use Picaboo<\/a> to create online photo albums that I can share with others. This is definitely a leisure activity. I’ve seen how libraries use Flickr to post images, but if a more extensive photo project was required then Picaboo is the way to go.<\/p>\n

I manage my RSS feeds using Bloglines<\/a>. I quite enjoy the organizational aspects of this RSS aggregator so that I can access everything in one location. I’m actually very thankful for this Discovery Exercise because it allowed me to access my accounts and analyze the value of them. Of course I am also trying new ones like Twitter and Delicious!<\/p>\n

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Image retrieved from http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/silvertje\/3582297307\/ and is licensed under the creative commons by Anne Helmond’s photostream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading the affordances\/contraints of different social media tools posted by my class mates I was sold on creating an account in Twitter and Delicious for the discovery exercise. I find time management an issue when devoting time to social media tools, such as microblogging or social networking, but I am happy to try these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[9199,162,9196],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","tag-exercises","tag-module-1","tag-social-media-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/manhas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}