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Millennials will route around IT departments
According to a new report by Accenture, a large number of
Millennials expect their companies to accommodate their IT preferences,
including their preferred computers and applications. More than a third of
Millennials also indicated that they were dissatisfied with the technologies
their employers currently provide. ReadWriteWeb, 18 November 2008
18 Nov 2008
How not to build your Twitter community
Here are a few tips on what not to do:, by Sarah Evans,
Mashable, 17 November 2008
17 Nov 2008
Twistory
twitter+history. Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favourite calendar
and browse through your personal twitter diary.
More Twitter
applications
17 Nov 2008
Twitterspeak: 66 terms you don't need to know
Never read a twiller? Having twissues with your
twerminology? Welcome, then, to the unforgivable abuse of the English language
that some call Twitterspeak.
16 Nov 2008
7 things you should know about Ustream
From Educause. Ustream is an interactive web streaming platform
that lets users broadcast their own channels on the Ustream network or on a
third-party website,
Ustream is one of the 25 FREE Tools
More Ustream readings
16 Nov 2008
Soocial
provides a one address book solution to contact management. No matter
where you add or change a contact, it will be changed in your other connected
devices or web applications
15 Nov 2008
Taglocity
is a non-disruptive email overload and
information sharing solution for agile enterprises. Taglocity for Outlook
just released - free
15 Nov 2008
One minute languages
where you can learn the basics of a language in a matter
of minutes
15 Nov 2008
Sales Development Zone
is an online learning management system with a huge sales training library and
e-learning modules, designed to deliver a cost effective, flexible & personal
solution to managing the development of your sales force
More course/learning management
systems
14 Nov 2008
PrepHub
Test prep community
14 Nov 2008
Twitter Mail
you can
post status updates to Twitter and receive tweets sent to
your username
More Twitter
applications
14 Nov 2008
Popacular
a list of the most popular bookmarks
from Delicious
14 Nov 2008
Ubiqq
Ready-to-use video conferencing system
14 Nov 2008
Learning Technologies Conference
28-29 January 2009, Olympia 2, London
As the field of workplace learning and
development grows, so does the Learning Technologies
conference and in January 2009 more than 40 speakers and
over 350 delegates will gather to share experiences on
organisational learning and the ever-changing technology
used to support learning in the workplace.
14 Nov 2008
Twingr
14 Nov 2008
Gmail launches voice and video chat
It's free and installs in seconds
12 Nov 2008
Onestopclil
The site
is focused on ready-to-use resources for English teachers,with PowerPoint presentations, animations, and
an online subject based
dictionary
as well as interactive white board
materials. New content is added to the site on a
regular basis.
12 Nov 2008
Corporate Twitter accounts and online reputation,
As with blogs that went before, the question
of whether companies should use “corporate” Twitter accounts
still polarises opinion. There are those who believe that
“social” media should be exactly that, and others who think
it is fine for companies to use any channel as a marketing
channel.
Niall Cook, Social Media Today, 12 November 2008
12 Nov 2008
10 uses of Google Alerts for a freelancer
Here are a few ways to use the service to
save time
10 Nov 2008
FutureTweets
is a free service that lets you schedule your
Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future
or send a recurring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly
10 Nov 2008
Intersquash
Turn your site into an optimised iPhone/iPod
Touch site
9 Nov 2008
Twuffer
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a
list of future tweets, and schedule their release
More Twitter
applications
9 Nov 2008
Blogging grows up
Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered
the mainstream, Economist, 8 November
9 Nov 2008
Events on LinkedIn
LinkedIn announces Events
8 Nov 2008
Teach the People
Teach the People is an educational platform
built on top of Facebook.
3 Nov 2008
TamTamy
a solution for creating your own Enterprise
Social Network, quickly, easily and tailored to your needs,
following Web 2.0 trends
3 Nov 2008
Enterprise Microsharing Tools Comparison: Nineteen
Applications to Revolutionize Employee Effectiveness
19* applications vying to bring Twitteresque
networking and communications inside the enterprise.
3 Nov 2008
Vizzual Forms
Collect information online: from online
surveys to job applications. See results as your forms are
filled out. Get reports and detailed statistics about your
data
3 Nov 2008
Glue
Glue enables you connect with your friends on
the web around things you visit. Glue is powered by semantic
recognition technology that automatically identifies books,
music, movies, wines, stocks and more. Glue works hard to
make it easy for you to find out what your friends think
about things you visiting online.
3 Nov 2008
How to use Yuuguu for training
Yuuguu allows up to 30 people to engage in instant chat,
telephone conferencing and screen-sharing and control. All
these features can be used to host and manage training
sessions. Key to the effectiveness of Yuuguu as a training
solution is the screen-sharing option. Users do not need to
have Yuuguu downloaded – all they need is web access – to
view a common screen, hosted by the trainer
1 Nov 2008
Intuition
E-Learning Studio
A new course authoring tool that provides all the
interactions and pre-programmed script in order to allow to
anyone to develop elearning programmes rapidly. Available in
English, French, German and Spanish
More course
authoring tools
1 Nov 2008
25th Anniversary of the Annual Conference on Distance
Teaching & Learning
August 4-7, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. [Call for
Proposals available: November 24, 2008; Call for Proposals
deadline: January 20, 2009; Registration open/program
available: May, 2009)
1 Nov 2008
Turn your name into a face
Online avatar generator
1 Nov 2008
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