Curating online

 This 14th Thing is looking at 'online curation', using tools like Pinterest and Tumblr. How institutions and  the public can use various websites and tools to curate collections around their chosen topics and, using mobile apps, do this anytime and anywhere.
Pinterest allows users to create virtual pinboards of images and videos according to their interests. The library's Pinterest board features local images with a history emphasis.

Tumblr allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog, littered with hashtags.Tumblr's visual appeal has made it ideal for photoblogs that often include copyrighted works from others that are re-published without payment Tumblr users can post unoriginal content by 'reblogging', a feature on Tumblr that allows users to re-post content taken from another blog onto their own blog. 

The dashboard allows the user to upload text posts, images, video, quotes, or links to their blog with a click of a button displayed at the top of the dashboard. 

One of the Tumblr 'Discover' tasks was This is What a Librarian Looks Like that has the tagline “challenging the librarian stereotype one post at a time” which appears to cover the whole gambit of expression.


Must admit that it frustrates me that with some Tumblr images, you can't track back to where some photos originate from.

Which is why I feel that Pinterest has it over Tumblr when comes to organisation and descriptive curation.

Interesting pin

Have to give a gong to someone using the moniker mulzi. Seems mulzi is the hundredth person to follow my Pinterest page.

My Pinterest Page

 While your Pinterest boards are personal - your likes/interests/hobbies - its great to see how universal they can be, when people follow you, or repin, or like your pin board/s. 

Interestingly my pin with the greatest interest has been the librarian t-shirt (more kudos to librarians everywhere) - 82 people have repined it, and 14 have 'liked' it.

The pinners I've 'encountered' are from all over and unknowns - none are people I actually know or have met - it's a bit weird to know of people with similar interests.
So it is back to my pinboards and the next milestone - maybe my 30th board or 5,000th pin?