Digital curation tools: Personal, professional and what?!

Reading the content in ETL523 Module Three: The digital learning environment, has prompted me to consider the range of digital platforms I use personally and professionally.

Personal

I too love using Pinterest for personal use, although I have a few professionally relevant boards within my persona account too. The share option when using other social media such as Facebook, or news sites makes it easy to pin and curate resources for later.

Facebook has a save function that allows you to save articles and photos as your browse your feed. This is a useful tool, but I must admit to forgetting to check back and update (or even use) the interesting items I have saved.

I frequently use the bookmarks and reading list functions within Safari, and use this to keep track of favourite blogs or specific articles.

I use my personal Google account for some documents, music and photo files, but also use iCloud for my media library. Then there is that unwanted Twitter account... Phew, this is getting messy!

Professional

I have used Google Keep and more recently Diigo and Weava (a Chrome extension) to try and curate useful resources for my postgraduate studies. All are useful and powerful tools, especially Google Keep and Diigo which allow sharing and collaboration between colleagues. All three options have tagging functions, but require a disciplined approach to label, file or tag content as you go along for content to be easily discoverable later!

I primarily use my professional Google Account for all my work related documents and these are filed within individual and team Google Drives. This makes anytime, anywhere access possible, which has created a huge improvement in my my workflow. I also use Microsoft 365 for my postgraduate documents and assignments, and this doesn't always gel well with Drive, so they remain largely seperate.

I had forgotten about some of the tools I had used previously, such as a Blogger account I had used for a class blog while on teacher exchange in 2011. There are some happy memories there, so I hope I can archive rather than delete that account.

...and don't even get me started on my email inboxes!

Like you suggest, using so many tools can get messy... Don't even get me started on my email inboxes!