*Cue the sound of fans cheering and me doing a victory cry*

I got my first choice: PearlTrees! Now a name like that is very ambiguous so let me delve a little deeper. PearlTrees is a site that lets you share your interests with your online community. From a visual standpoint, it looks very similar in set-up to Pinterest; however, PearlTrees allows you to organize your categories however you wish.

When setting up your Homepage, you’re given the option to add: A Collection (of images – similar to a gallery), A Webpage, A Note, A Photo, A File, or a miscellaneous. Once you have items uploaded you can organize them and categorize them however you choose.

I chose this app for a rather selfish reason. Yes, we have a grade on this project and I’m exploring the site in order to present the resource to my classmates, but I chose PearlTrees because I really need help organize all the *crap* I’m involved with on Virginia Tech’s campus – so why not kill two birds with one stone? It’s one thing to write a list of what you’re involved with and the things you’ve accomplished for those respective organizations, but I think it’s really cool to be able to SEE everything placed together! I’m really excited to get started with this project!