3.15.2009

Thing 17: Try out a few other online productivity tools

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Web 2.0 offers many, many ways to collaborate and communicate with a broad audience. It can feel overwhelming at times. The best thing to do is focus on a few that resonate, and immerse yourself in them. Knowing a few tools well is more productive than a surface understanding of a lot. Here are tools for thinking through ideas and brainstorming. Delve in a few of them. You're exploration begins now...

To complete Thing 17 you must:
A. Explore an online productivity tool
B. Reflect on Thing 17 on your blog

Explore an online productivity tool

Some of these tools may require setting up an account. Enjoy.

Bubbl.us - brainstorm with concept mapping tool
Zoho Show
- create, edit and share presentations online
Remember the Milk
- create task list, share with others, and get reminders
30 Boxes
- calendar
LibraryThing
- your own cyber bookshelf
Trailfire
- create a "trail"of annotated web pages on any subject
Knowtes
- create a deck of virtual note cards

Reflect - Blog Prompts for Thing 17
Give a review of the tool you explored - what worked, what didn't work, how might it be used in your personal or professional life? Are there other Web 2.0 tools available online that you could share?

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