Yesterday
Instagram, today Flipboard!
As our
world as a whole becomes more technological with more “new” toys to play with, these
new applications make their way into our genealogy community.
Let’s talk
about Flipboard. It’s a way to create a
magazine by using content already on the web (and probably via other methods
not described here).
I opted to
get started by installing
a Chrome extension. This extension
allows me to just click on the icon for a page of interest (in this case, posts
from Upfront with NGS) and “add” that content to my magazine.
I just
created this magazine based on
Upfront with NGS posts. Each included
article has its graphic and beginning text visible. The headline for each article is a clickable
link to the original article. Each page gives you an option to “subscribe” to or
“share” the magazine you are reading.
The
presentation is very lush looking. So,
if you are a visual person – you might find this media appealing. I think this magazine format also makes it
easy to “catch up” on Upfront with NGS
if you’ve missed a few posts since you can see more headlines in a horizontal
fashion. We’ve actually talked about
that for the blog – that it would be nice to have a “more visual” method for
quickly seeing the most recent news titles. Might Flipboard be the answer?
What do you think? For Upfront
with NGS which format do you think is preferable? Real-time e-mail, 3pm EST
digest mode, FB post, Google+ post or Flipboard?
Editor’s Note: please post your
responses on FB, Google + or via a comment to this blog post for this informal
survey
There are some
in our genealogical community who have been playing around with this
technology. I suggest you check out
these recent examples ...
+ Power Your Genealogy Research with Technology (Caroline
Pointer)
+ Using Historic Maps for Genealogy and Family History (Lisa
Louise Cooke)
+ Using Newspapers for Genealogy and Family History (Lisa
Louise Cooke)
+ Boost Your Genealogy Research With Newspapers (Kenneth R
Marks)
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