Recycling Content for Fun and Profit!

One dishonest posting tactic frowned upon by the HIVE community is sometimes known as "recycling," where someone copy/pastes an old post and shares it as if it is new content. It's not technically plagiarism if it's your own work, but it is an attempt to double-dip on the same content without any new effort. Don't do it, OK? Maybe we need a good way to keep older evergreen content from fading into obscurity, but just copying your old stuff as a new post isn't cool.

With that in mind, though, I want to draw attention to this old post from fall of 2018 when I was working on a craft program I could share in my library.

Recycling craft content isn't such a bad idea in this library outreach and education context. Popular crafts and programs might even become an annual tradition, but re-running a successful program after a hiatus of a few years can still bring in fresh participants with a tried-and-true process. This time, it's a grab-and-go kit with twenty clothespins, a sheet of instructions similar to my old blog post, and a QR code and link to the tutorial video I made when we last offered it as a COVID quarantine activity in 2020.

How do you feel about content recycling, and what do you think can be do to improve visibility of old posts? I plan to go through my old posts (over 2000 of them so far) and create a pinned archive post I can keep updated, but that will be a lot of work. Let's not think about how the task grows the more I procrastinate... I need to edit out the old Steemit links, make sure images are properly cited from the early days, tweak the odd formatting and spelling issues, and so forth anyway to bring it all up to my current standards as much as possible.

Meanwhile, have you tried any quaint crafts you would like to share as a how-to blog post? Drop a link to your latest project tutorial, or write a good post and then share it below. I may even pass out some $PIZZA tokens!