Karen is the E-learning Manager for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in the UK.

Karen's Top 10 Tools as at 19 February 2008

1. Google Search - This is like my first cup of tea of the day. I couldn’t do my work without it…

2. Google Maps - Whether its for business or leisure, map reading isn’t one of my strengths so I couldn’t be without the route planner to get me where I need to go.

3. Blackboard - I like this as a learning environment as many of our programmes have a very collaborative approach to them and this VLE works well.

4. Centra - I like the varied functionality this provides as an enterprise solution. You can do ad hoc meetings, group sessions and then more formally organised events.

5. Facebook - I just like that there is so many things that you can do with it and share things with friends around the world.

6. Wikipedia - It’s just a great reference site..

7. RSS - It allows me to keep up to date with a cross section of news on a daily basis so easily.

8. Outlook 07 - This is my organiser, I share this with my colleagues. It is synchronised with my Blackberry. I couldn’t be without it..

9. PowerPoint 07 - Very simple tool to use for presentation creation

10. Internet Explorer - Along with Google Search and Outlook, IE is a tool I use all day every day and wouldn’t be without it.