Comments on: Personal tech configuration as steward’s springboard

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:21:29 +0000

Sorry for my slow response to comments (too much travel!)

Suzanne, I think you hit on something important in terms of professional development. This “password” thing is challenging because it is functionally simple (remembering A password) but then gets complicated when we have multiple passwords, different sites having different password requirements and little or no interoperability. What appears to be simple is not.

But professionals, in my experience, don’t like to appear to be incompetent at anything. Especially “simple” things. So even THINKING that knowing how to manage these things may appear “beneath” value in professional development. Still, we see managing across platforms as a significant barrier.

Yigal and Grace, thanks for sharing your picks – I love hearing about what people prefer (and why!)

By: Grace Morton

Grace Morton — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:12:43 +0000

The following are my picks

Blogging – WordPress
Business email, collaboration, scheduling – HyperOffice
Notes – Evernote
Personal email – Gmail
Social networking – a href=”http://www.orkut.com/”>Orkut, Facebook
Professional networking – LinkedIn
Video – Youtube

By: Gianni Marconato

Gianni Marconato — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:16:54 +0000

I have posted on my blog about the book
http://www.giannimarconato.it/2009/08/digital-habitats-il-nuovo-libro-di-wenger/

By: yigalc (Yigal Chamish)

yigalc (Yigal Chamish) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:41:47 +0000

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By: Yigal Chamish

Yigal Chamish — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:36:53 +0000

Hi Nancy,
Now, with all the social features added to Google Reader (and to Delicious), you may consider use GR as your RSS reader, since it gives you many options to collaborate and share.
However, it ois a little social battlefield with the user in the center of it…
I wrote about it here: http://yigalc.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/social-media-as-a-dynamic-battlefield-is-it-really-social/.
Thank you, impressive list!

By: The Knowledge Management and Storytelling Blog

The Knowledge Management and Storytelling Blog — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:32:38 +0000

Is the Media – Social, or the People?!……

Many of us are within what what is called ‘Online Presence Management’, i.e. plan, create, build, maintain and broaden their online presence over the web as well as connecting dots to networks. People want to go back to the old town square…

By: saurili (Suzanne Aurilio)

saurili (Suzanne Aurilio) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:45:42 +0000

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By: Suzanne Aurilio

Suzanne Aurilio — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:34:11 +0000

Thank you Nancy! One thing my colleagues and I wonder about in our work with university faculty is what I call “dashboard competencies.” When I observe myself, I see ways in which I optimize my various dashboards (e.g. having a master password in FF, and saving all my web-interface passwords) so that I can actually do all this stuff fairly easily.
I haven’t quite been able to figure out where to fit this conversation into our professional development endeavors; there are so many seemingly more important skills to learn.
I would argue though, that an awareness of these basic skills has the potential to bring some folks over the hump that’s most often expressed as “I don’t have time for all this.”

By: feedbacktools (Yancey Thomas)

feedbacktools (Yancey Thomas) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:34:34 +0000

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