Brandon Greenberg @Disasternet published a blog post today on the value of using Evernote to capture and collate notes, articles, and knowledge collaboratively and from a variety of sources into a virtual filing cabinet.
Evernote's sharing features allow me to share notes via or social media and share notebooks with collaborators and the public. Working on my capstone project for my MPA, our team decided to dump our research, articles, thoughts, meeting notes, etc. into one shared notebook for easy reference. This comes in handy as we all have access to the material for related blog posts and conversations that we will create or have over the duration of the project. The search features combined with tagging also allow us to hone in on what we are looking for very easily.
If you are intrigued but still don't know where to start, check out any one of a number of video tutorials on YouTube or on Evernote's own site.
The key takeaway for me isn't specifically about Evernote, which I love and use daily. Rather, Brandon's comments underscore the importance of regular experimentation with myriad new platforms available for increasing our ability to teach ourselves.
Evernote is just one tool whose purpose is to help us sort and remember increasing quantities of content. Other tools like RSS feeds and blog aggregators and podcast directoris help us find new content. Then there are productivity tools to help us manage things like email and communications so we have more time to learn. And I'm falling in love with Google docs all over again after one too many "version control" problems in trying to collaborate on authoring documents.
As we explore how to develop our individualized curriculum and understand how innovation is changing the sectors about which each of us are passionate, it is incumbent to dig, search, and explore for ourselves. Maximizing our ability to do so well depends upon identifying the challenges that impede us from learning well. If only there were an app to create more hours in the day!
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