Trevor OwensInterview
Librarian, historian
Adapted from Trevor Owens's interview on Uses This, published 4 August 2021. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I have a 13-inch MacBook Air from 2012 that has 8 gig of memory and 120 GB of storage on it that I use for a lot of writing and teaching.
Communication
I contribute to a blog that runs on WordPress, and my personal blog and the site I use to teach my digital history course also run on WordPress.
As I find interesting stuff in Feedly, I use Buffer to queue it up to roll out at times when it's more likely to get seen and shared further.
Productivity
For my job, I mostly work between the standard set of MS Office applications, some Atlassian tools, and a range of internal applications that support digital content management.
I also end up spending a good bit of time with spreadsheets pivoting tables and sorting and filtering in Excel.
Both of the universities I teach for run instances of Canvas as their platforms for teaching.