Saturday, January 30, 2010
Note: This month EditMe's Twitter user name was changed from @EditYourWeb to @EditMe.
The following are links of interest to customers from EditMe's Twitter feed that flew out during November. Follow @EditMe and/or become a fan of EditMe's Facebook page to stay in the loop.
On Wikis...
- RT @ Want to play a role in the development of Standards? Visit
- Resolved: Improve Wiki Use in 2010 | ITBusinessEdge.com - Nice nod to Mader's 21 Days of Wiki Adoption
- HR Wikis: "How many hours have you spent wading through an endless labyrinth of emails searching for a piece of info?"
- Event Planning Tools - Wikis "offer immediate engagement for those interested in your event"
- "Wikis are protected not by code, or by law, but rather by the participation of an active wiki community."
- Cloud Culture: Replacing Textbooks with Wikis - Wiki discussions as a corollary to classroom participation
- Wiki as Internet meme:
- "Use wikis to gather competitive intelligence"
- Wikis for technical documents - interview with Alan Porter
On Tools Worth Checking Out...
- - Vimeo's beautiful sign-up screen. Nicely done!
- If this works, hats off to the developer. Sounds too good to be true. JS library to make IE6 "standards-based":
- See which of your tweets have been favorited and by whom
- MailBrowser: Xobni-like plugin for GMail. Check out the "see all recent attachments" feature.
- Loving - No more suggesting 3-4 meeting times via email and going back and forth. They should be charging for this.
- Google Reader Can Now Track Changes to Any Website - Even if it Can't Find a Feed via @
- Just launched by a friend of mine: SaaS mobile grassroots campaign management. / @
On Content & Knowledge Management...
- 10 ways to motivate employees to use your CMS - "people are motivated by enticements, not reward"
- Last sprint, first step | Just Write Click - Some sage Agile advice that can be applied to life in general.
- - "the real value is in creating new knowledge, rather than simply 'managing' existing knowledge"
On Education Technology...
- Some specific wiki project ideas for teachers
- More specific ideas for wiki projects in the classroom:
- What is the most important idea that teachers should keep in mind when using wikis in the classroom?
On Businesss...
- Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - - Some very sound advice here.
- Take customer input for what it is: “If I had asked customers what they wanted, they would have said ‘Faster Horses’” - Henry Ford
- Great idea: keep a list of personal FAILs and review weekly to work on 80/20.
- Google stands up against Chinese gov.: "We are no longer willing to continue censoring results on Google.cn"
- Never Mind the Valley: Here's Boston - ReadWriteStart
- What's the business process for developing business process?
- Using the Web and Social Media to Create More Effective Events via Web Worker Daily
- The decade in management ideas - Interesting list. No. 6 should be "Collaborate to innovate."
- "a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model"
