Wonderful thing to come across in my Monday Morning reading. An article on the HBR Blog reminding us of a few things we can do as staff and managers to be our most humanly productive — and it’s NOT multitasking! Read an excerpt below: If you’re a manager, here...
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You’ve found this blog post, so you’re obviously enjoying whatever Internet access you’ve got, right? Do something good for a family in need this holiday who may not be able to manage the mondo cost of high-speed, perpetually-on Internet access some of us enjoy — let them know this...
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Found this comment rather interesting… “Require a social network login to access your website. You request permission to access visitors’ social profiles and, when approved, you’ll have an opportunity to build a wealth of knowledge on the individual user. Learn about their hobbies and interests, friends, likes, age, marital...
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The top-seven tools that people reported using, in order of most use to least, are: Adobe Captivate Articulate Presenter Articulate Engage Adobe Connect TechSmith Camtasia Adobe Presenter Harbinger Raptivity via learningsolutionsmag.com I find it quite interesting that Adobe holds THREE spots on this list and Articulate TWO spots as...
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via fastcompany.com Read further and see what you think about the prospect of Google owning the Motorola mobile hardware manufacturing practice and resources, and what that could mean for those of us who own Motorola Droid phones. It sounds like something I’m certainly looking forward to if what is...
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Keep your team up-to-date with Sparks Another great feature that differentiates Google+ from Facebook is Sparks. It lets users define an interest (robotics, for example), and then trawls the web looking for articles related to that interest, making it easy for users to find relevant articles to share. This...
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via kno.com OMG… I WANT ONE! This is the one reason I haven’t taken the iPad dive yet — because it doesn’t really cater to the needs of an education professional or career student like myself. Not enough textbooks on the iPad platform, and that’s where it’s real usefulness...
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Google not doing the Wave anymore: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180161/Google_drops_Google_Wave
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Visualize Everything: 32 Free Tools To Create Different Diagrams via 1stwebdesigner.com I’m always on the lookout for free and opensource ways of getting things done, so here are some more links to some free and inexpensive ways to create graphs and charts for class, for business, for whenever you...
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via blackboard.com According to the feedback left at the Chronicle website (http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Blackboard-to-Buy-2/25357/?utm_source=feedburne…), this may or may NOT be a good thing for lovers of Wimba or Elluminate: “Today Blackboard Inc. announced plans to buy Elluminate, based in Alberta, Canada, and Wimba, based in New York, both of which sell...
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One of the hottest sessions at ISTE 2010 this year was the annual free tools smack-down hosted by SIGMS. Here are a few of the sites that we found particularly interesting: via isteconnects.org Sites cited: The Week In Rap, Tagxedo, Google Search Stories, Voki, ZooBurst, Xtranormal, Gale Apps, Pulse...
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