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Twitter – IM Meets Social Networking
Nov 23rd
If you haven’t heard, Twitter is a micro-blogging application that allows you to send tweets (updates – limited to 140 characters) to the Twitter website and your twitter friends. You can find and interact with people with similar interests. You can follow them, and others can follow you. It’s an instant-messaging-meets-social-media-networking tool.
http://twitter.com/Kent_Beatty
This screenshot shows my twitter page & tweets from some of the people I follow (tweeps)
If you haven’t already signed up with twitter, go here and get your free account and start tweeting with your tweeps!
After you join twitter and pick a user name you will have a URL like this: http://twitter.com/Kent_Beatty
The Top Ten Most Irritating Phrases
Nov 4th
Which of these phrases do you use?
My tally: used daily – 1; often used – 2; seldom used – 4; never used – 3
I absolutely believe that these irritating phrases are fairly unique at this moment in time. I personally submit, with all due respect, that it’s a nightmare 24/7 for those who at the end of the day shouldn’t of endured these phrases and it’s not rocket science!
The top ten most irritating phrases:
1 – At the end of the day
2 – Fairly unique
3 – I personally
4 – At this moment in time
5 – With all due respect
6 – Absolutely
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Social Media – Username Check Tool
Nov 3rd
Do you lay awake at night worrying about whether you have your username registered with every site that you should? Did someone take your username before you registered it?
This is very handy, see if the new username you’ve dreamed up is available without visiting each site!
Provided by: Jon Sykes
Penzu – Your Life & Your Journal
Oct 9th
From About.com - “Journaling is a great way to reduce stress, process your feelings, better understand yourself, and have a catalog of your life’s events.”
From cnet.com – “I’m not kidding when I say Penzu is the most realistic re-creation of paper I’ve seen on the Web. The service has a serious leg up on its pulp-born competition with a slick looking college-rule that holds all your thoughts (intelligent or not) and saves them to the cloud. When it comes time to print them, they’ll come out just like they look like on the page, sans rulings of course.” – May 29, 2008
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Like eBooks? – Try Plastic Logic Reader
Oct 3rd
This reader will ship in first half of 2009.
- It is an 8.5 x 11 form factor
- with a large readable display
- it’s thinner than a pad of paper (7-mm)
- lighter than a business periodical
- offers a high quality reading experience
- low power consumption & long battery life
Recorded Sep 8, 2008 with Flip Video camcorder
The Plastic Logic reader supports a full range of business document formats, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and Adobe PDFs, as well as newspapers, periodicals and books. It has an easy gesture-based user interface and powerful software tools that will help business users to More >
Desiderata
Sep 15th
Wordle Word Clouds
Aug 31st
Check out Wordle.net
Wordle was created by Jonathon Feinberg who blogs at Wordle Blog. Wordles are created from words, text or URLs that you provide. You can change colors, fonts, orientation, etc. You can then print your wordles or grab them with a screen capture program – I highly recommend snagit for that. This is a word cloud i made at wordle called individuating. I pasted in the text from two slides from a slidedeck by Konrad Glogowski who has a blog called “blog of proximal development – teaching, blogging, learning.” He has an excellent post on blogging here.
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Individuating – Word of the Day
Aug 30th
1 : to give individuality to
2 : to form into a distinct entity
Do we seek to find ourselves or to repeat dysfunctional patterns?
Autonomy – “…self-governance through free volition, not separation or independence from others.”
Two types: individuating autonomy and relating autonomy. “…two distinct of autonomy—individuating and relating—each with superior function in a specific domain of individual functioning. Individuating autonomy represents a volitional capacity to act against social constraints and offers a route to achieve an independent self-identity by expressing individualistic attributes and distinctions.” – from: “A cross-cultural comparison of the coexistence and domain superiority of individuating and relating autonomy” at InformaWorld.com
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