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Category: Social Media

  • Absolutely the best explaination of Social Media — Common Craft delivers, again!

    A great and simple video explan­a­tion of Social Media. Wiki­pe­dia could­n’t do better 🙂 I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz. Social Media may be the next big thing. What’s it all about? This is Social Media in Plain English. Let’s take a vis­it to Scoopville — a town that’s fam­ous for ice cream. For over 20 years,…

  • Why trust strangers when you can trust your friends.

    Gig­Park is a new social media / word-of-mouth refer­ral web 2.0 and Face­book applic­a­tion (whew!) What all that jar­gon means is that if you’re look­ing for a plumb­er, account­ant, real estate agent or magi­cian you have a con­veni­ent place where you can ask your friends (or their friends). The concept is simple; invite your friends…

  • Use Web 2.0 tools to save time and be more productive

    photo cred­it: ASur­roca For a while I’ve been using a few Web 2.0 applic­a­tions that, on their own, are great, but when when partnered with oth­er Web 2.0 apps, become super­star effi­ciency optimizers. The applic­a­tions Con­sider Jott, IWant­Sandy, and Twit­ter. Jott is a voice to text applic­a­tion. You call a free num­ber, say your mes­sage,…

  • On time management and GTD

    photo cred­it: jazz­mas­ter­son Lately I’ve been work­ing with a few tools that help me stream­line my vari­ous tasks and work­flows. Over the next few posts, I’ll dive into them and my reas­ons for using them. First off, the Two Minute Timer. If you’ve been been under a rock for the last few years then this ref­er­ence…

  • Blogging at the Edmonton Public Library

    A week and a bit ago the Edmon­ton Pub­lic Lib­rary launched a vari­ety of blogs. EPL does­n’t appear to use a stand­ard blog­ging tool (Word­Press, Type­Pad, etc) but rather chose to devel­op their own platform. On the top­ic of blogs top­ics, the blogs included are rather diverse, from Abori­gin­al Peoples, Com­ics, Manga, and Graph­ic Nov­els,…

  • 3 things I learned when my WordPress blog crashed.

    This week my blog crashed. It could have been a mess, but due to foresight, para­noia, and a lot of good advice from oth­er blog­gers, it was actu­ally a pretty simple recov­ery process. But, without some essen­tial plu­gins and basic know­ledge, it all would have been lost. So here’s the what and why of what…

  • 5 reasons my library ‘gets’ me.

    I was recently reminded why I hap­pily sup­port my loc­al lib­rary, and yes, this is all about me. The back­story: A friend recom­men­ded a few movies over din­ner the oth­er even­ing. The loc­al video store did­n’t have them, so after remem­ber­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with anoth­er friend, I went to the loc­al lib­rary, from the com­fort of…

  • Selecting a beer to suit the mood.

    Recently, Adam Snider — loc­al Edmon­ton writer, con­duc­ted a quick poll via Twit­ter. The ques­tion: What is your favour­ite kind of beer? The sur­vey sample was small, but there was­n’t really a win­ner declared. And this also gave me an oppor­tun­ity to write about one of my favour­ite sub­jects; Beer! My think­ing on the poll res­ults…

  • The best way to taste wine

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  • Jott now offering local Canadian phone numbers

    I’ve wanted to post about Jott before, but have held off because this cool tech­no­logy was­n’t avail­able out­side of Toronto. Con­trary to pop­u­lar opin­ion, many Cana­dians live in towns, vil­lages and cit­ies oth­er than Toronto.  To bring you up to speed quickly, Jott is a tele­phone-based voice-mes­sage-to-text ser­vice that util­izes human and voice recog­ni­tion tech­no­logy…

  • Online Photo Albums made easy — Video

    Once again the video wiz­ards at Com­mon Craft make the com­plex seem easy. Online Photo Shar­ing in Plain Eng­lish is simply that. Well done, and Enjoy! And as you can tell by the little wid­get in the right hand column, I’m a flick­er user 🙂 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPU4awtuTsk&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=0] Tech­nor­ati Tags: Video, Pho­to­graphy, Online, Backup, Tools, Shar­ing, Social…

  • Blog update woes

    Between one of my Word­Press updates, and a K2 (this blo­g’s theme) update, I’ve man­aged to fubar the look and feel. Oh well, time to remem­ber what wid­gets and things I had, I liked, and which worked. And which sup­port the goal of the blog. Also been a bit absent from post­ing. Yep, life gets in…