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Thing 10 - Productivity from ME?!?

So I broke down some real reluctance barriers, and decided to try some new ways of using tools that I had tasted before, and, like Brussels sprouts, had decided that I really didn't like or need!

 Although I have Evernote on my iPad - (hey - it was free!) - and love tools that I can access on all devices, I hadn't really seen a need or want for it.  I am a Devoted Delicious user, and can pop a bookmark into Delicious with the touch of a button.  But I tried Penultimate, and it allowed me to store and index handwritten notes, and add pictures, and have them at my fingertips in Evernote, so I explored some more...

By linking Delicious and Evernote through ifttt (If This Then That) - I sent my current Delicious bookmarks to Evernote.  Where my notes are.  Writing a review with the links handy and in the same place was a little easier, I will admit.   And I can see how, if I were a student just starting out, I would want to use Evernote to collect, index and create content. 

So then I got braver, and linked my Twitter feed to HootSuite.  Dang -- I had missed a few posts in which I was tagged, and a couple of questions that people had asked, and a picture that I really liked seeing now, two months after it was posted!  I was a little leery when HootSuite said that it wanted permission to post to Twitter on my behalf...but I do so little posting that I figured at least someone would be using my account this way, and it would make me a little more social, maybe?!? 

So now I see the benefit of tying familiar, totally useful and productive tools to new tools, and I may even find that I use the new ones more, as I explore them more deeply.  I will definitely introduce students to Evernote before I show them plain, single-function tools (the old question of why a person would wear a watch - a single-purpose device pops to mind....!) and I will monitor my Tweets more quickly and hopefully more faithfully with HootSuite.

And oh yes -- I tried broiled Brussels sprouts.  And they are delicious!

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pollyalida said…
Yummm... sprouts! Great post. :)
March 27, 2013 at 7:28 PM
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