2.0 – Mike Taylor

My Modern Professional Learners Toolkit

Jane Hart has derived a framework for the Modern Professional Learner’s Toolkit, based on the results of her Top 100 Tools for Learning survey results. After reading Harold Jarche and Clark Quinn’s personal toolkits, I was inspired to share my own. Trusted Web Resources This one could get quite large and is ever evolving butContinue reading “My Modern Professional Learners Toolkit”

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12 Apps of Christmas-Day 11 – Feedly

Day 1 – Hemmingway App (Writing app) Day 2 – PollEverywhere (PowerPoint audience participation add-in) Day 3 – The Great Suspender (Memory Manager – Chrome add-in) Day 4 – Grammarly (Writing -Chrome add-in) Day 5 – Dropbox for Gmail (Chrome add-in) Day 6- Canva (online graphics tool) Day 7- Google Drive for MS Office (Office add-in) Day 8- PowerContinue reading “12 Apps of Christmas-Day 11 – Feedly”

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12 Apps of Christmas-Day 6 – Canva

Day 1 – Hemmingway App (Writing help) Day 2 – PollEverywhere (PowerPoint audience participation add-in) Day 3 – The Great Suspender (Memory Manager – Chrome add-in) Day 4 – Grammarly (Writing – Chrome add-in) Day 5 – Dropbox for Gmail (Chrome add-in) Canva: Professional Graphic Design for Everyone Do you ever need to create graphics? Virtually everyone does atContinue reading “12 Apps of Christmas-Day 6 – Canva”

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Buffer

I do a lot of reading and try to share a lot of the best stuff I find via twitter. Usually this resulted in a big mass flood of tweets in the dark hours of the morning when most people here in the U.S. are still sleeping. Recently I discovered a much better way toContinue reading “Buffer”

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Getting Started with RSS & Google Reader

I’m giving a webinar tomorrow on RSS & Google Reader. These are the handouts for the session.

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New technology threatens our information?

I really like this..makes me thing how many times these arguments have been levied against the lastest new technologies?

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# things in # minutes

I’ve seen this concept now in a variety of variations. This is a great way to give quick, introductory view of tools. I really like, and totally agree with the point in this one that “it’s NOT about the tools.” The thing that is paramount is what you DO with the tools.

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Like a garden, any social network needs to be carefully nurtured…

http://www.corporatetraining.ie/spies-twitter-gardening-social-media-meets-learning.html David Armano at Harvard Business blogs takes the gardening metaphor further, suggesting that there are three steps to go through in creating a vibrant social network, whatever its purpose: Seed Feed Weed Suppose you are setting up a social networking site where people from within your organisation can set up a profile, get inContinue reading “Like a garden, any social network needs to be carefully nurtured…”

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Nice YouTube Interface

YouFlow – The ImageFlow, Highslide and YouTube Mashup. I like how this finds and presents the results of your YouTube searches with a nice thumbnail preview. Now only if YouTube wasn’t blocked from work. 8-( Maybe someday!?!