I don’t know what it is with me and RSS readers. I seem to switch every few months. I’ve been Google Reader for a while and would still recommend it for new users but…
But well, I just have to wonder if I’m missing out on something. I’m a restless RSS soul I guess. The newest […]
I saw this a few days ago and have held off writing about this Skype for Blackberry app until I had some time to play with it:
IM+ for Skype Software by SHAPE Services is a mobile client for Skype Software. It enables voice and text communication with other Skype users as well as cost-effective calling […]
If you use SharePoint, a powerful but hard to master product I’ve found, you should stop now and read this:
Microsoft SharePoint is garnering much attention in organizations, with Microsoft’s business partners, among the analyst community, and in the press. It is now a fundamental element of Microsoft’s Office suite and servers. The technology of SharePoint […]
Raise you hand, how many of hate setting up conference calls? Great, thanks. Now, how many of you have been on conferences calls that you’ve set up (and often paid good money for) and have someone just forget to attend (or you’ve done this yourself)? Really this should be most of you by now, except […]
Man I’ve been dying to blog about this for over a month. I’ve been in the private beta test of the new MindManager 7 Pro. If you’re a MM fan, this is a good upgrade. Must upgrade? If you use Office 2007, I’d say yeah.
The new MM 7 Pro is officially coming out May 30. […]
Twitter is hot among us bloggerati, geekerati, digerati, etc. All day long I get “tweets” (a message in Twitter) from my friends and other information sources (like CNN and the BBC). Before I get into how you really can use Twitter in your business life, let me explain it (if you don’t know about it).
Twitter […]
Sometimes you just need a little ad-hoc network to get something done at a meeting. Maybe you’re at a coffee shop with buds and want to push a file back and forth. Maybe you just need to share something fast. Vista has this capability built-in, and I got a chance to play with it a […]
Sometimes you just can’t be there. Sometimes you aren’t at home and you have one of those "oh no" moments. You forgot something. A document, a link, an address. Or you just want to get home and finish up work stuff. That’s where remote access software comes in. EdTechPost relies on Hamachi and Unyte, LifeHacker […]
Although I still don’t have an invite into Scrybe, I still watch for it in the news. DownloadSquad reports that Scrybe has added a new feature to their already powerful lineup of tools.
In Scrybe there is a Planner pane which contains your calendar and tasks, and now the ThoughtPad pane which contains web clippings, or […]
Another good post from WebWorkerDaily. They list the core tools for distance collaboration.
Email
Phone
Text chat
VOIP
Web Conferencing
Document collaboration
Group online document sharing
Wiki
Shared calendars
Message forums
video chat
No doubt that these are extremely important. I use all of them, except for wikis. No doubt as well that video and web conferencing has made use strides since I first tried them in […]
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