Entries from November 2009

November 19, 2009

Tips for Today

There are so many great sources of info out there—I have my RSS feed pulled into my iGoogle page, and it’s great for procrastination.
It’s also pretty great for getting snippets of info. Here are just a few from today:

50 Social Media Tips for NPOs from Chad Norman’s ‘Webby Things’
Connection Cafe’s notes about non-traditional & [...]

November 12, 2009

Web-Based Meeting & Presentation Glom

Over the past six months, I’ve experiemented with a number of tools for both web presentations and virtual meetings (and even learned to think about the difference between the two!). I’ve used ReadyTalk, GoToMeeting, AdobeConnect and Skype (with a plug-in).
GoToMeeting was dismissed in one instance in favor of ReadyTalk’s larger capacity, recording capability, and [...]

November 4, 2009

Free Knowledge

Well, yes, free knowledge IS what the Internet brings us, but here are some free online learning opportunities:
MIT OpenCourseWare publishes all of their course materials. For free. Special section for high school instruction and subject index available.
iTunes U offers If you’re an iTunes user, you’ve probably seen the mortarboard icon that links [...]

November 2, 2009

Leaf Peeping

The Internet allows us a glimpse at an ever-expanding world, and as Michael Pollan precociously noted in his 2002 Botany of Desire, might actually be a viable industry some day :-). Its pervasiveness into our everyday lives makes a good ol’ fashioned glimpse out the window seem like a whole new revelation.
In [...]