TOP 10 TOOLS 2007 & 2008
Tim Schlotfeldt

Tim is a German based e-learning specialist with a strong focus on informal learning. He works for the consulting company Nitor in Hamburg where he is responsible for building up the e-learning division.  Tim blogs at E-Learning-Blog: .

Tim's Top 10 Tools as at 9 September 2008

1. Linux based root server: Most of my communications and personal nformation management is done by this server. Webserver, Mailserver, Jabberserver, Wiki Engines, Blogging, Subversion repository... are examples for how important the server is. From any part of the world I can log into the machine to use it.
2. Mutt: E-Mail still is the most important part of my communications.Mutt is a mail client that simply >sucks less<.
3. Tkabber: Jabber rocks! And now Tkabber is my favorite client for Instant Messaging over the jabber network because it has some nice features like a built-in whiteboard
4. Firefox: The Webbrowser, of course.
5. Vim: In my daily work writing is an important tasks. Writing E-Mails, writing wiki and blog entries, do some configuration or coding. Vim is the one editor I can do with most of my daily writings.
6. Drupal: A wonderful system for building up community-based platforms. I use it on my own and for our customer projects.
7. Oddmuse: Oddmuse is a small but powerful wiki engine I prefer this engine to all the other wiki systems. And it's Perl!
8. Identi.ca: Open Source Microblogging. Great Idea.
9. And I'm still on Twitter.:
10. IRC: I'm a lot on the Internet Relay Chat not only operating the Channel #E-Learning on Freenode. Meeting people from the whole world is interesting and fun. On IRC we're talking and we're planning for example wikiwednesdays, webmontage and barcamps.

Tim's Top 10 Tools as at 18 February 2008

1. Linux based root server: Most of my communications and personal information management is done by this server. Webserver, Mailserver, Jabberserver, Wiki Engines, Blogging, Subversion
   repository... are examples for how important the server is. From any part of the world I can log into the machine to use it.

2. Mutt: E-Mail still is the most important part of my communications. Mutt is a mail client that simply »sucks less

3. Psi: Jabber rocks! And Psi is my favorite client for Instant Messaging over the jabber network

4. Firefox: The Webbrowser, of course.

5. Vim: In my daily work writing is an important tasks. Writing E-Mails, writing wiki and blog entries, do some configuration or coding. Vim is the one editor I can do with most of my daily
   writings.

6. Drupal: A wonderful system for building up community-based platforms. I use it on my own and for our customer projects.

7. Oddmuse: Oddmuse is a small but powerful wiki engine I prefer this engine to all the other wiki systems. And it's Perl!

8. IRC: I'm a lot on the Internet Relay Chat not only operating the Channel #E-Learning on Freenode. Meeting people from the whole world is interesting and fun. On IRC we're talking and we're planning for example wikiwednesdays, webmontage and barcamps.

9. Twitter: I don't no why. but I'm on Twitter ;-)

10. OpenOffice: Still using it ;-) The great thing on OpenOffice is that the windows version is exactly the same as the Linux version.It doesn't matter on which system you are.

Tim's Top 10 Tools as at 29 July 2007

1. Linux root-based server: Most of my communications and personal information management is done by this server. Webserver, Mailserver, Jabberserver, Wiki Engines, Blogging, Subversion repository... are examples for how important the server is. From any part of the world I can log into the machine to use it.

2. The Mutt E-Mail Client: E-Mail still is the most important part of my communications. Mutt is a mail client that "sucks less". It helps me to communicate quickly and to archive the communications in an easy way.

3. Gajim:  Jabber rocks! Gajim is a easy to use client for Instant Messaging over the jabber network

4. Firefox:  The Web browser, of course.

5. Vim: In my daily work writing is an important tasks. Writing E-Mails, writing wiki and blog entries, do some configuration or coding. Vim is the one editor I can do with most of my daily writings

6. Drupal: A wonderful system for building up community-based platforms. I use it on my own and for e-learning projects

7. MoinMoin: An easy to install but powerful wiki engine. Because of the integration of a GUI editor and access control features it is a good choice for setting up corporate wikis.

8. IRC: I'm a lot on the Internet Relay Chat not only operating the Channel #E-Learning on Freenode. Meeting people from the whole world is interesting and fun. On IRC we're talking and we're planning for example wikiwednesdays, webmontage and barcamps.

9. OpenOffice:  The great thing on OpenOffice is that the windows version is exactly the same as the Linux version. It doesn't matter on which system you are.

10. FreeMind:  A java based mind mapping software. I like to use mind mapping on my project work. FreeMind is a tool that works on Windows an on Linux.