A mind map is a great tool, and mind maps should be a key part of any knowledge/concept worker’s tool kit. To supplement the hand drawn maps that are scattered throughout my notebooks and across whiteboards, I primarily use two pieces of mind mapping software: MindManager (Pro 6) and Personal Brain (5). (In the interest [...]
Tagged Concept Work, Knowledge Work, Mind Maps, mindmap, ToolsThis is a repost of The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow, which I originally posted in April 2008. – – — — —– ——– The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow At the end of a brief history of human communication, Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the [...]
Tagged 2.0, learning, play, Social Media, Tools, VisualBack in November ’07 I signed up for Shelfari, the self-described “premier social network for people who love books.” Up till that point I had been keeping a book list in my handy-dandy notebook (I’m still a bit low-tech in some areas). This was about the time I was jumping into the world of social [...]
Tagged Books, Social Media, Social NetworkingThe topic of search engines came up during a recent conversation with Tony Karrer. I told him I use Google some (Google News is actually my browser start page), but that I’ve set the default in the Firefox search engine list to GoodSearch. “Why use something other than Google?”, he asked. “When do you use [...]
Tagged 100 conversations, fundraising, GoodSearch, Google, non-profit, T&TAfter 10 days on Twitter I have 31 followers, am following 19, and have posted 74 updates. As one of his 100 conversations, Tony Karrer is interested to know how I use twitter for personal learning. I’m not sure I’m to the point where I’m doing any real learning through twitter yet, but here are [...]
Tagged 100 conversations, TwitterIt has taken me a while, but I’ve finally joined Twitter. The catalyst behind getting me to join at this time is an event being organized by Bonnie Sayers called Autism Twitter Day, scheduled for Tuesday 16 December, a week from today. Mark your calendars! (Thanks to Kev and his post Autism Twitter Day for [...]
Tagged Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, TwitterUsing the Cynefin framework, which I’ve also discussed here, Shawn at the Anecdote blog takes a look at the question of When should we collaborate? It’s always useful to define your terms before starting this kind of discussion, and Shawn obliges with the following: So what is collaboration then? It’s when a group of people [...]
Tagged Anecdote, collaboration, Complexity, cooperation, coordination, Cynefin, Work, Work LiteracyAs someone who loves technology and gadgets, and loves figuring out how to make them useful, I’ve had a long interest in how the technology of the information age could change the way people – especially children – learn. This interest is compounded by the fact that I have two teenage sons, now in high [...]
Tagged children, Education, learning, Seymour Papert, technologyIn Communications During Terrorist Attacks are Not Bad, Bruce Schneier calls Twitter a “vital source of information” during the recent attacks in Mumbai. But not everyone agrees, as there were reports that Indian authorities were trying to get people to stop posting information, apparently fearing that the terrorists would be able to use this information. To that, Bruce [...]
Tagged 2.0, Flickr, Mumbai, Schneier, Security, Social Media, Tools, TwitterRecently, Dave Snowden and Jack Vinson have both typealyzed their blogs: Dave’s is ENTP and Jack’s is INTJ. Since I’m not sure exactly how Typealyzer works, I wasn’t sure if I’ve got enough content here at this new blog (15 posts so far) to get a type, but figured it was worth a shot. The [...]
Tagged Blogging, Dave Snowden, INTJ, INTP, Jack Vinson, Myer-Briggs, personality type, Typealyzer
