- Wireless phone: SMS. Beam your business card via text message to interested parties.
- Wireless phone: Mobile Web and iPhone-optimized web sites
- Wireless phone: E-mail.
- Wireless phone: iPhone.
- Social Media Profiles: Social Networks (LinkedIn, Facebook)
- Social Media Profiles: Google profiles
- Social Media Profiles: Twitter
- Social Media Profiles: Profile aggregators
Friday, June 19, 2009
8 Ways to Create Paperless Business Cards
Thinking ahead to the next set of conferences and meetings where I'll be meeting f2f rather than online, I'll need a business card or slip of paper to give a lot of new contacts. I've been without a printed card for about 6 months and have managed just fine, but... Just in time, here is an item on "8 Ways to Create Paperless Business Cards" from Mashable, the Social Media Guide.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Google Wave - Spelly, Linky, Rosey, and More Magic
Watermole, an early member of the CSLA 2.0 Team (Summer 2007), actively updates her blog with news of cool new tools. I regularly follow 2.0 Team blogs, so her blog alerted me to a developer preview or pre-launch introduction of Google Wave at the Google I/O Conference, May 28, 2009. The video is about an hour and a half, but well worth watching. See below.
Highlights: Google Wave, an open source personal communication and collaboration tool.
NOTE: Here is what Lerdof (Lars) Rasmussen said regarding using open source software in education in an interview with Builder Australia a few years ago: "It makes no sense to base an educational system on property software. All you are doing is generating new customers for a company as opposed to creating the people that might be the next Microsoft. For example if you have a database course, use an open source database and show them how the database works. Not everyone is going to dig into the guts of this thing, but there will be two or three kids in every class that will, and from what they will learn they can build the next great database. It's crazy when educational systems don't go with open source and go all Microsoft. That is where governments really should be pushing universities."
Highlights: Google Wave, an open source personal communication and collaboration tool.
- Developers are two brothers who designed Google Maps several years ago. Lars and Jens Rasmussen, as well as project manager Stephanie Hannon preview the amazing product, platform, and protocol.
- The open source software product will launch later this year.
- Features include a slick spell-checker (Spelly), ability to detect and add links as you write (Linky), language translator that translate as you write (Rosey), and much more.
- A "playback" feature allows you or a new person that is added to a discussion to start back at the beginning of an edited discussion or collaborative document.
- "Click and drag" attachments and people to add to a document or discussion.
- Wave extensions extend the functionality. Examples of external APIs include a fun "yes/no/maybe" gadget for a group to use to make decisions, games like collaborative chess and sudoku games -- "playback" feature can be used here, too!
- Wave can be integrated with existing applications like Twitter.
- Issue tracker (Buggy) can be used to track and correct software bugs. [This sounds useful for regulatory and public affairs issue managers.]
- ALL THIS IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN THE BROWSER.
NOTE: Here is what Lerdof (Lars) Rasmussen said regarding using open source software in education in an interview with Builder Australia a few years ago: "It makes no sense to base an educational system on property software. All you are doing is generating new customers for a company as opposed to creating the people that might be the next Microsoft. For example if you have a database course, use an open source database and show them how the database works. Not everyone is going to dig into the guts of this thing, but there will be two or three kids in every class that will, and from what they will learn they can build the next great database. It's crazy when educational systems don't go with open source and go all Microsoft. That is where governments really should be pushing universities."
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Yellow Pages Widget - LIBRARY category
KW Low at AT&T YellowPages.com has launched a cool local directory search tool, a YP widget. It took longer than he planned and this is only version 1.1. Now that the search widget is available, it can be used by anyone who creates a YPC account. The smallest version (160 pixels wide) is ideal for my blogs. If you want, you can set a default location for your state or city. You can have no categories selected, list the top 5 categories, or select your own categories! Love it! See how easy it is to add "libraries" as a category. I've added a heading that urges readers to look up their local library.
Next year, KW plans to make it a pay-program along the lines of Google AdSense, where each search of the YP Directory would be worth a penny or some formula.
Next year, KW plans to make it a pay-program along the lines of Google AdSense, where each search of the YP Directory would be worth a penny or some formula.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Authors Who Use SKYPE to Speak with Book Clubs
A California school teacher librarian alerted me to a post on kid's author Kate Messner's Live Journal. Messner is building a list of authors who offer 20 minutes of their time using free Internet-based phone/video service SKYPE to chat with book clubs. At this time, there are about 40 authors on her list. What an easy way for authors to reach out to book clubs!
By the way, after looking over the list, I started clicking on each of the authors' weblinks. What a wild variety of ways authors are making their books accessible -- video clips, podcasts, reviews, games, book club questions, and much more.
By the way, after looking over the list, I started clicking on each of the authors' weblinks. What a wild variety of ways authors are making their books accessible -- video clips, podcasts, reviews, games, book club questions, and much more.
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