Comments on: Top 10 Tools for Learning Professionals http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/2009/05/06/top-10-tools-for-learning-professionals/ Librarianship in the Modern Age Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Netvibes. Wozu? « The Lonely Librarian http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/2009/05/06/top-10-tools-for-learning-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-7793 Netvibes. Wozu? « The Lonely Librarian Tue, 12 May 2009 11:33:37 +0000 http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/?p=449#comment-7793 [...] bin ich über die Liste der Top 10 Tools bei Joeyanne Libraryanne wieder auf Netvibes gestossen, die es als “My dashboard to pretty much everything on the web [...] [...] bin ich über die Liste der Top 10 Tools bei Joeyanne Libraryanne wieder auf Netvibes gestossen, die es als “My dashboard to pretty much everything on the web [...]

]]> By: Chris Keene http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/2009/05/06/top-10-tools-for-learning-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-7762 Chris Keene Mon, 11 May 2009 17:45:52 +0000 http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/?p=449#comment-7762 Good list. I've seen many lists with 50, 100, more so nice to see one focusing on the top 10. I agree with what you've included, but then I use them all (except netvibes which I will give another look). my thoughts on three... Wordpress is amazing, I recently needed a simple CMS I played with joomla and drupal but found that wordpress just gets the job done. For example uploading images and files (pdfs) so that you can link/include them in a page is so easy. Like you say, the plugins also make it so powerful. Remember the milk took a while to get used to (basically needed to learn keyboard shortcuts), but what won me over was the intergration. Need to add a todo list item based on an email? Just fwd to a special email address (in my address book) and a new item is added. I can see my to do list in gmail and igoogle. I used to have a huge number of tabs open (I *will* read that report / check out that site / buy that item / write that review... but not today, i'll leave the tab open until i get around to it). I currently have 50 firefox tabs, and 60 chrome tabs. I try to use delicious.com to bookmark these instead of leaving the tabs open, but as you can see I'm not too successful! the delicious website always leaves me a little wanting, it can be quite slow, and a lack of visual clues (screenshots, icons) means it can involve intense word skimming. I also used fireshot a lot, and also use the free 'Jing' for simple screen capture requirements. Chris Good list. I’ve seen many lists with 50, 100, more so nice to see one focusing on the top 10.

I agree with what you’ve included, but then I use them all (except netvibes which I will give another look).

my thoughts on three…

WordPress is amazing, I recently needed a simple CMS I played with joomla and drupal but found that wordpress just gets the job done. For example uploading images and files (pdfs) so that you can link/include them in a page is so easy. Like you say, the plugins also make it so powerful.

Remember the milk took a while to get used to (basically needed to learn keyboard shortcuts), but what won me over was the intergration. Need to add a todo list item based on an email? Just fwd to a special email address (in my address book) and a new item is added. I can see my to do list in gmail and igoogle.

I used to have a huge number of tabs open (I *will* read that report / check out that site / buy that item / write that review… but not today, i’ll leave the tab open until i get around to it). I currently have 50 firefox tabs, and 60 chrome tabs. I try to use delicious.com to bookmark these instead of leaving the tabs open, but as you can see I’m not too successful! the delicious website always leaves me a little wanting, it can be quite slow, and a lack of visual clues (screenshots, icons) means it can involve intense word skimming.

I also used fireshot a lot, and also use the free ‘Jing’ for simple screen capture requirements.

Chris

]]> By: Vahid Masrour http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/2009/05/06/top-10-tools-for-learning-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-7650 Vahid Masrour Fri, 08 May 2009 21:07:51 +0000 http://www.joeyanne.co.uk/?p=449#comment-7650 Interesting. I see a lot of overlap with what i use. Check my Netvibes, you might like some tabs: http://www.netvibes.com/vahidm Give Diigo a good serious try, you won't have to go back to Del.icio.us (Diigo actually lets you make a double save of your bookmarks in both Diigo and del.icio.us... a little redundancy never hurt). Interesting. I see a lot of overlap with what i use. Check my Netvibes, you might like some tabs: http://www.netvibes.com/vahidm

Give Diigo a good serious try, you won’t have to go back to Del.icio.us (Diigo actually lets you make a double save of your bookmarks in both Diigo and del.icio.us… a little redundancy never hurt).

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