Posts under ‘Resources’

My son, Justin, is at a conference in mid-town Manhattan. Around supper time, he called on his iPhone from Times Square. As we were chatting about his day, he asked if I’d search Google for best free wi-fi near his hotel.
Where do you look for good solid local info about restaurants, realtors, doctors [...]

I remember when Justin encouraged me to start using social bookmarks. In our basement home office, he very patiently tried to explain del.icio.us to me. I didn’t get it. This was a couple of years ago.
Then a couple months later, I started playing with the web-based program and I looked at how [...]

Are the different levels of government–local, state, federal–adopting blogging?
I’m learning the answers to that from a report (PDF)–“The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0”–which I just cracked open from the IBM Center for the Business of Government. It includes links to blogs by state legislators, members of the U.S. Congress and [...]

Have you ever tried explaining how a wiki works to somebody who’s unsure about computers and the web?
Lee Lefever of Commoncraft has hit another communications homerun with his short and entertaining and useful video about a wiki and how it works.
If you get the concept, you can use this powerful tool and make it work [...]

If Twitter is getting old for you or if it’s not husky enough in its performance, I have four free invites to the new Pownce. Nice way to share files, links, comments in a cubicled situation or with friends and associates who are not nearby. Just ask for one by sending e-mail to [...]

Want some fun?  Try to explain RSS to your buddies during your coffee break and watch what happens.
I’ve tried to simply explain this relatively new way of delivering blog posts and just about any other message and I usually see the iron curtain come down in a person’s mind with reminders that they don’t understand [...]