Monday, September 21st, 2009
Read the Harvard Business Review’s Death by Information Overload
Less is More!
Avoid the Wikipedia Effect.
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Read the Harvard Business Review’s Death by Information Overload
Less is More!
Avoid the Wikipedia Effect.
- iGoogle
- Delicious
- LastPass
- Organizational Schemes
- Email
- ToodleDo
- Data Backup and Synchronization
- get a good, cheap, highly-rated external hard drive (Newegg provides useful data)
- practice using your drive with some test data (a copy of unimportant files)
- delete test data from your computer and find out how you are going to get it back, seriously
- Once you are satisfied that you understand the nuances of the routine and scheduling, back everything up
- finally, ask yourself what would happen if your computer and the backup were compromised simultaneously
- Useful Websites:
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
This post is a supplement to Tuesday’s workshop on creating a web presence. Happy reading!
Blogs shown during the workshop:
Where to get a blog:
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Twitter Lingo, Basics:
Making Twitter useful to you
Twapplications:
Find Tweeple
Broader questions:
Now that you’ve seen what Twitter can do…
What are the benefits of being so connected?
What are the drawbacks?
Can Twitter benefit higher education? Can it possibly improve pedagogy?
Publicity:
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing
Tim says:
- Any web application is a cloud application in the sense that it resides in the cloud. Google, Amazon, Facebook, twitter, flickr, and virtually every other Web 2.0 application is a cloud application.
- People use the term “cloud” more specifically in describing web applications that were formerly delivered locally on a PC, like spreadsheets, word processing, databases, and even email.
Examples:
Online Office software:
Resources:
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