Teemu is a partner and CEO at
Dicole Oy,
a company focusing on understanding the role of social
technologies in knowledge work and networked learning in
organizations. Teemu blogs at
Tarina
Timu's Top 10 Tools as at 27 July 2007
Dicole - The
software my company
has been working on
for the last four
years. It integrates
wikis, blogs, RSS
aggregation and
private/open working
areas that I use to
communicate with my
colleagues and
customers. It also
integrates some
online productivity
tools I can't live
without like
Toodledo and
Google Calendar.
Perl - One feat opening
unlimited doors to creativity is programming.
I'm a programmer by heart, having exercised it since
I was 13 years old. I've tried tens of languages but
I always come back to Perl, the duct tape of the
internet. There are not many things out there you
can't do with it.
Web Developer
toolbar - Great
extension for
Firefox that should be
available in every other browser. It's useful for
debugging XHTML/CSS sites. Greatest timesaver is a
feature that allows me to create CSS quickly LIVE
without reloading pages.
ScribeFire - It's an
extension for
Firefox
that allows me to blog
to the 10+ blogs I'm
writing to, enabling
drag & drop of text and
images for quotation. If
my computer crashes, my
unsaved entries are
always retrieved.
Scrapbook - Another extension
for
Firefox. There is no better way to come
back to articles or snippets of texts while I'm
doing research on the internet. Great for offline
reading on the road, too.
Keynote - Previously I used
OpenOffice but after switching from Linux to Mac OS
X it became apparent that there is no match for
Keynote if you want to create incredible visual
journeys rather than endless boring lists of
bullet-points. My audience loves it
Adium- Several IM clients in
one. I'm in so many different IM networks that I
just can't use a separate application for each one.
Unfortunately Skype is not yet available for it.
Jaiku - It runs on my mobile
phone and notifies me what my friends are doing,
where they are and if they are available for a call.
It also serves as a quick way to post small ideas or
just get some lunch company in the true spirit of
serendipity. The web interface connects my online
presence into a single stream I can browse to
understand who I really am.
APT GET - Originally orginated
in Debian Linux and later also found as "Fink" in
Mac OS X, apt-get allows me to install a solution to
any problem from the command line in no time.
del.icio.us
- Quick post to del.icio.us button in my browsers allows me to send
the current site of interest to an universally
available pile of neural network waste to be found
later by luck or recall.
What are your
Top 10 tools - for
your own personal working and learning
and/or
creating, delivering or supporting others' learning?
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