Trillian is a great tool that many IM users still don’t seem to know about. You can monitor IM accounts on all the major IM services, view your email from your webmail service, monitor RSS feeds, AND connect to Macs (and other Trillian clients) via Rendevous. This is a tool that is the swiss army knife of collaboration.
In my just completed “Leadership for Instructional Design” course at Capella, my final project was a business case for creating an e-learning system. Here is the summary:
The Yale School of Drama is working with Yale’s School of Music, Art Gallery and British Arts Center to implement a comprehensive box office, fundraising, marketing and customer relationship software system (CRM). The system provides extensive new functionality to these departments, and represents a significant opportunity for interdepartmental coordination. The process of implementing the new system, and migrating information from existing systems has begun. But there is currently no plan for a program to address the increased staff training needs presented by the new CRM system. This business case proposes the creation of an e-learning system which provides a common repository for all system documentation. This documentation will be readily accessible, updateable, and allow custom training modules that can provide employee training in a flexible, cost-efficient format.
This is the first reference I’ve seen to the “Participation Age.” I like it. The term certainly conveys a better sense of the concept than web 2.0. The version idea makes sense to us geeks, but actually incorporating a verb into the term should work better for normal people.
I use CSS Zen garden often for design inspiration. Alessandro has a post where he provides an inspiring list of inspirational sites:
For the past several years I have volunteered to assist the Summer Cabaret with their web site design. Each year I have used this opportunity to explore some new web site ideas.
This year’s site utilizes web 2.0 elements. The main site is a fairly standard, css - standards-based design. But the home page lists recent posts from a Summer Cabaret blog set up for free on blogspot. This linkage is via the blog RSS feed. A free flickr account was created to share production and rehearsal photos. They set up the blog and flickr sites themselves and I added the links into the official website.
Here is an interesting way to categorize one’s online "stuff" — tagclouds:
I saw this mentioned on a blog a couple of days ago and immediately saw a possible solution to my poor site categorization. I first added the RSS feeds from my existing categories on this blog. Then I realized that it would be really cool to widen the net, and include some related sites too. So I added my FURL feed, my Flickr feed, as well as some searches I created on PubSub (another cool web service.)
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