Garr Reynolds/PresentationZen - Authors @Google talk

Duarte Design's Five Rutes for Presentations

How to use Blogger

Create your own TAG CLOUD

Wordle is a great online site that creates TAG CLOUDS. You can design your tag cloud for font choices, color and layout. Go to http://www.wordle.net

Facebook Quiely Sets Facebook.com as Default Email

All Facebook users now have a default @facebook.com email address until it's manually changed.
Zoom
Facebook has decided to make the @facebook.com address the default email destination for all users whether they want it or not. more...

Google announces online course to make you better at searching the web

Google wants to help you become a power searcher. Today the company has unveiled a new, free online course called Power Searching with Google that aims to teach users some tricks and best practices for using the search engine more effectively. more...

Mashable

Great source for everything Social Media. Welcome to my new bloggers!
http://mashable.com/

A Google BLOG about BLOGing

Blogger Buzz is a BLOG about BLOGing. It includes tips on how to use blogspot.

BLOG

Storytelling Lessons from Bill Cosby via Presentation Zen

Following up on the last post below concerning good graduation speeches, here's one more from the great Bill Cosby. Now 73, Dr. Cosby many not be on the radar screens of a much younger generation, but ask any successful comedian  read more...

Socializing in the world of Social Networks

Courtesy : Openviewpartners

Today, blogging and social networking often go together (well, blogging is tied to social networking, but social networking is not about blogging) (I mean to bloggers and blog readers – today bloggers tend to be the blog readers – most often if you are blogging about blogging). Interaction plays an important role in social networks. In twitter, Interaction takes the form of many different thing.  read more... 

Assignments - June 20 - July 30, 2011

Assignments over the next 5 weeks:

1. do your research and post on your BLOG a minimum of 3 times each week for at least 15 by our next weekend

2. read and comment on your team-mates BLOG weekly and also read and comment on every other class member's BLOG during the 5 weeks

3. read and review our class BLOG - I will be making a couple of entries every week so check it weekly - http://inforesearching.blogspot.com/

4. review info on Creative Commons, (posted on class BLOG)

5. review PresentationZen material: book, video, info posted on http://www.inforesearching.com on class web page

6. gather at least 25-30 images that are related to your topic for your BLOG and preparing for your presentation

I will also be reviewing and commenting on your BLOGs. If you have any questions, be sure to let me know.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons licenses provide simple, standardized alternatives to the “all rights reserved” paradigm of traditional copyright. more...

Summer Session 2011

New class, 7 fabulous students. Check out their BLOGs.

CommonCraft - BLOGs in Plain English

Common Craft is a small company owned by Lee and Sachi LeFever in Seattle, Washington, USA. The company was founded by Lee in 2003 as an online community consulting company. We started making videos in 2007 with our first video: RSS in Plain English. Since then, we've published two kinds of videos:

1. Educational Videos - Videos we create to sell on this website (our current focus)
2. Custom Videos - Videos we were hired to create by companies like Google, Ford and LinkedIn.

CommonCraft has posted a series of different short videos on various aspects of technology. There is a good one on BLOGGING. Each video is around 2-3 minutes.

About Blog-Jet

BlogJet is a Windows blog client for managing multiple blogs, with features no web-based blog editor can match. What makes using BlogJet a lot more comfortable than posting with browser or other blog clients?

http://www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/

New BLOGGING Group

Roche Brothers Executive Development Graduate group is beginning to BLOG this evening. They will be creating companion BLOGs to their ILP (thesis) projects.

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Web 2.0 Summit

Discovering the Web's Edge
Web 2.0 Summit focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future. What began as a focused gathering on the implications of the Web becoming a platform has transformed into an industry event focused on the latest Internet innovations—the services, applications, businesses, and models—that are redefining the way companies do business and how people live.

This Summit will be happening in San Francisco Oct 17-19, 2007. The kinds of things we have been discussing: BLOGGING, social networking, etc. will be the theme and I am hoping to attend...more

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/62/about.html

Technology, Entertainment, Design

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

Talks are available free more...

ClustrMap

Linda's suggestion for ClustrMap is great.

See at a glance where your site's visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! Visitors don't need to click on anything: just viewing your page is sufficient. One thumbnail map on your site shows it all. ClustrMap for this site posted on right vertical bar. Take a look at who has been here from where.

http://www.clustrmaps.com/