Lost without Twitter

In an addendum to the Verizon debacle. I was looking forward to really trying out microblogging from my phone during the cfunited europe conference this week. I am quite saddened that that will not be happening. Especially, since the hotel charges $40/day for internet access in your room, and then has a separate company charge you another rate if you want to use wireless in the common areas. Ridiculous....

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0 comments - Posted by cheyennejack at 9:54 PM - Categories: Social Networking | Productivity

Q and A Problem Can Be Solved by a Blog

QUESTION:

How do you increase user interest by answering user-generated questions on an educational website, while maintaining high content integrity standards? Oh. And you have already exceeded your budget.

ANSWER:

I was recently posed with this very issue.

The idea of a forum was one that really piqued their interest. The idea that experts could receive and answer problems and have those solutions immediately available online was great.

However....

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0 comments - Posted by cheyennejack at 5:25 PM - Categories: Productivity

Zimbra Acquired By Yahoo

Apparently Yahoo dropped 350 million smackaroos on Zimbra, so I decided to finally check it out here.

Zimbra Demo

Very practical handy uses of Ajax all around and ways to help speed up someones day and organizational aptitude. Alot of the features are very Outlook meets Web 2.0, but there is definitely innovation as well. It will be quite interesting to see what Yahoos plans are to do with Zimbra. Of course, now that I've checked it out, it'll probably be down for like 6 months, similar to Google's acquisition of Urchin, but now that thats up and running, Google Analytics is a great service. Hopefully, the same works out for Yahoo and Zimbra.

0 comments - Posted by cheyennejack at 9:18 PM - Categories: Productivity

Aggregators or RSS Readers

As far as I'm concerned the term RSS Reader and Aggregator can be used interchangeably.  What they cannot do, is be ignored.

My old morning routine used to be something like ok lets surf to cnn.com, then nfl.com, the techcrunch.com, etc. etc. until I had gotten around to most of the sites I regularly visit.  Then I'd run across another cool site and have to remember to add it to my routine, maybe my bookmarks, maybe del.icio.us if I knew what that was at the time.  Pretty soon I'd have hours spent just going to different sites, waiting for them to load...

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0 comments - Posted by cheyennejack at 7:58 PM - Categories: Productivity

Improving Security and Productivity on the Web

Alright, since I get like a phone call a week about dying computers, pop-ups and "how do I do X" type questions all the time; I'm posting the video to the presentation I did for my company in February.

The first part covers some internet security while you are surfing away on-line, and the second part includes alot of information about social networking and web 2.0.

The whole thing is about an hour, but most people have found it useful.  Comment below if you find it useful or too nerdy.  Feedback is appreciated.

http://www.shrinkster.com/di7

4 comments - Posted by cheyennejack at 8:19 PM - Categories: Productivity | Security