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May31	Connotea: Social Bookmarking for Scientists Diane Ensey May 31, 2006 Know More: Del.icio.us, Note Taking, Social Networking, Social Networks, Web 2.0, bookmark 2.0, Del.icio.us In a practical example of "More Signal, Less Noise," Connotea is a social bookmarking service aimed specifically at scientists and clinicians. Just what makes it different from Del.icio.us? Connotea grabs scientific journal and website bibliographic information, including author and journal name, automatically. The application also imports and exports references in RIS format, which is used by many desktop reference managers. For academic publishers, Connotea supports DOIs and OpenURL. Planned is the ability to search on the author/title/publication fields in addition to keywords. The only downside I see (as a non-scientist) is the inability to add information relating to non-web links - links from books or journals not online. With this functionality, Connotea would probably be a great overall tracking source for scientists. Posted at 11:37 AM \| Permalink
May31	MindJet's MindManager: Combine with WebEx for Collaboration Diane Ensey May 31, 2006 MindJet's excellent mind mapping software, MindManager, has a WebEx plugin which allows sharing and collaboration on Mind Maps. If you haven't used MindManager, but are familiar with mind mapping, the application is a treat. I use it constantly - to... Continue Reading Posted at 6:37 AM \| Permalink
May30	MicroSoft Office Ultimate Encouraging Corporate Open Source Switch? Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 It looks like the "ultimate" version of Office 2007 is going to have a heavy price tag - around US$650 for the stand-alone and around $500 for an upgrade. What will this get you? Quite a bit, but I doubt... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 PM \| Permalink
	Getting a Handle on OPML Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is a format for exporting and importing RSS feeds - useful if you want to share your feeds, but PR Week points out other uses for OPML.When creating a team, create an OPML file of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:17 AM \| Permalink
	Wridea - Competition for TaDa Lists? Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 Wridea is a note-taking application with a nice Ajax-y interface. Users can organize notes on individual pages and assign a category.The application is still in Beta, which is a good thing, because there are two features that are missing which... Continue Reading Posted at 7:47 AM \| Permalink
	Moleskin Notebooks: High Tech Bows to Low Tech Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 Life doesn't have to be all high-tech. Oftentimes we "bend over dollars to pick up pennies" with our time, spending hours figuring out how to make some cool gadget fit our needs when a low-tech solution would work the best.Sacha... Continue Reading Posted at 7:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May29	Online Word Processing Review: Writely Diane Ensey May 29, 2006 It has been several months since I checked out Writely, the online word processing application that allows collaboration. In checking out its process, I'm impressed. Tagging has been added, as has revision history and the ability to compare two documents. ... Continue Reading Posted at 10:05 PM \| Permalink
	Google Gapminder - Visualize World Demographics Diane Ensey May 29, 2006 Interesting in many ways, Google Gapminder is difficult for me to describe, so I will quote from their site:Gapminder is a non-profit venture that develops information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. In short,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:42 PM \| Permalink
	Advertise Using Podcasts Diane Ensey May 29, 2006 Podcasting is emerging from the domain of geeks into the business world just as blogging has. Gregory Galant, the CEO of RadioTail talks about podcasting and gives five tips for successful advertising using podcasting. The best tip? "Don't imitate broadcast... Continue Reading Posted at 9:44 AM \| Permalink
May27	Groove - Sharepoint's Cool Brother? Diane Ensey May 27, 2006 Microsoft's Groove 2007 is in Beta and I'm taking advantage of the 60 day trial to test it out. Groove is a workspace collaboration tool that works pretty much like every other tool. Much easier and more intuitive than Sharepoint,... Continue Reading Posted at 12:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May26	IM Etiquette Suggestions for Business (and Personal Life Too) Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 Another great Stowe Boyd interview - this one with Carl Tyler of Instant Technologies. They discuss instant messaging (IM) and guidelines that companies should have for its use. I won't quote the guidelines here - go read them, but I... Continue Reading Posted at 5:55 PM \| Permalink
	Flash Drives: Share Information and Easy Presentations Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 As a collaboration tool, flash drive (keychain drives, USB sticks) have great potential. Bert Webb uses his to keep files that he works on at home and work: "Now I simply set up a “Briefcase” (a windows folder designed to... Continue Reading Posted at 10:59 AM \| Permalink
	Using XML to Map the News Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 Interesting articles about what could be the future on online news: marking up stories in so that relationship clouds and localization is made easier. Writers code items such as quotes or assertations with the source info (name of the person... Continue Reading Posted at 10:04 AM \| Permalink
	The New Way to Search: Mapping Relationships Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 I am very interested in the way information can be shown as a cloud, with connections showing links and proximity and size illustrating importance. I'm not a huge fan of tag clouds - they just don't speak to me. I... Continue Reading Posted at 9:44 AM \| Permalink
May25	Focus on the Personal Instead of the Social Diane Ensey May 25, 2006 The main reason why social apps fail? They focus on social instead of personal.That is a direct quote from Joshua Porter and I agree completely. Once out of school, most people don't have the time and/or interest to pursue social... Continue Reading Posted at 4:30 PM \| Permalink
	The Dunbar Constant Diane Ensey May 25, 2006 In an interview between Stowe Boyd and Ross Mayfield, the CEO of Social Text, Stowe used the term the Dunbar Constant. I'd heard it before, but had no idea what it was. Strangely enough there is no Wikipedia entry on... Continue Reading Posted at 3:55 PM \| Permalink
	Wishlistr: Using a Wish List as a Motivational Business Tool Diane Ensey May 25, 2006 How do you reward your employees? Money isn't always the answer, and can actually work as a demotivator and company schwag - while neato, isn't actually motiviational (that may come as a surprise to some HR departments). How about having... Continue Reading Posted at 11:22 AM \| Permalink
May24	Collaboration Tools Need Integrated Full Text Searches Diane Ensey May 24, 2006 What originally got me interested in Central Desktop (see my review), was a post on their blog about the importance of search to collaborative applications.Good Collaboration Tools MUST have GOOD search integrated, otherwise, the tool is doomed to become a... Continue Reading Posted at 11:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Central Desktop - Collaboration Tool Rivals Sharepoint Diane Ensey May 24, 2006 Central Desktop is a collaboration application similar to Sharepoint, but somewhat easier to use. I really like how they describe their application: Organize With Central Desktop, information is at your fingertips instead of scattered across multiple desktops and inboxes. Group... Continue Reading Posted at 10:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May23	GoToMeeting vs. LiveMeeting - Cutting Edge Isn't Always the Best Diane Ensey May 23, 2006 In looking over my predecessor's posts, I saw one about GoToMeeting. He reported that the biggest disadvantage was the lack of VOIP, or ability to have voice integrated into your session. I use GoToMeeting on an almost daily basis with... Continue Reading Posted at 2:49 PM \| Permalink
	Specialists and Generalists: is Mechanical Turk the Blueprint for Future Work? Diane Ensey May 23, 2006 What if you managed a project or a business where the small details were farmed out to be done (and paid for) in micro-chunks. This is what Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service does. It is an online employment exchange for micro-tasks... Continue Reading Posted at 2:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Steve Rubel Analyzes Buzz with Google, Alexa, Technorati and Indeed.com Diane Ensey May 23, 2006 Steve's analysis of consumer interest/chatter ("buzz") about gas prices was an "aha" moment for me because he pulls together information from several sources to reach a conclusion. With all of these new metrics and analyzing tools coming out, it is... Continue Reading Posted at 10:28 AM \| Permalink
May22	Bringing Real Business to Second Life Diane Ensey May 22, 2006 I've been checking out Second Life for a week or so, but I still don't quite get it. But I need to stick with it, because everytime I shake my head and vow not to return, I read how people... Continue Reading Posted at 3:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Business Bloggers Needed for UMass Dartmouth Survey Diane Ensey May 22, 2006 Dr. Nora Barnes, the director of the Center for Media Research at University of Massachussets Dartmouth, is looking for business and professional bloggers to complete a three page survey (Word Doc) for a study on blogging that comes from bloggers... Continue Reading Posted at 12:58 PM \| Permalink
	Google Notebook Diane Ensey May 22, 2006 I've been testing Google Notebook for a week now and, for what it does, I like it. Google Notebook is basically a clipping and note-taking application hosted on Google servers. By adding a little plug-in to your browser you can... Continue Reading Posted at 9:24 AM \| Permalink
May21	GTD and Information Aggregators: How to Reconcile Them? Diane Ensey May 21, 2006 A few weeks back, Greg Knauss mused about information aggregators and the glut of stuff that they put in front of us. Years ago, someone phoned you and you weren't home, you missed the call and they had to try... Continue Reading Posted at 6:56 PM \| Permalink
	Joomla for Workgroups Diane Ensey May 21, 2006 Joomla is an open source content management system used for simple websites on up to complex corporate applications (according to the website). I've used Joomla for three websites, including my own site, and also use it when submitting articles for... Continue Reading Posted at 6:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May20	Audio Comments Coming Soon Diane Ensey May 20, 2006 Those who use Odeo’s podcasting service have access to audio comments – the ability of listeners to leave comments over their computer microphone that other listeners can hear as well. In the works is a WordPress plugin that will allow... Continue Reading Posted at 4:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Skypecast Beta a Good Start Diane Ensey May 20, 2006 Skype introduced Skypecasts this month as a way for groups of up to 100 members to participate in live, moderated conversations online. The idea is fantastic – the more so because it is free. Imagine attending virtual speeches or lectures... Continue Reading Posted at 4:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	DoRealTime New Author: Diane Ensey Diane Ensey May 20, 2006 I'm very excited to be taking over this blog from Jeff Carr - and I know I have some big shoes to fill.You may know me from my other KMM blog, AListReview. This blog is much, much different. I'll be... Continue Reading Posted at 4:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May13	Moving On Jeff Carr May 13, 2006 My participation with Do Real Time has been fun. I've tried to point you in a few new directions around the technologies that make up real-time collaboration and I hope that I've succeeded in that.Fortunately, and un-fortunately, my work at... Continue Reading Posted at 9:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May 7	Goodbye Sprint, Hello Vonage Jeff Carr May 7, 2006 About two months ago, Sprint screwed up my DSL order. It wasn't surprising, really. I could write for hours about all the screwups I've experienced from that company - landline as well as cellular, but no other telco serves my... Continue Reading Posted at 9:16 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May 4	Skypecasting Launch Jeff Carr May 4, 2006 Teleconferencing is an important part of online meetings, and Skype has once again changed the game with its latest launch of Skypecasting. This new service permits up to 100 participants to participate in a teleconference for up to 2 hours.... Continue Reading Posted at 4:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May 3	Sphere to Compete with Technorati Jeff Carr May 3, 2006 Michael Arrington at TechCrunch announces a new blogging search engine that takes a different approach to blog searches. Arrington describes it like this: Sphere search results can be viewed by date, relevance or a combination of both. Unlike Technorati, which... Continue Reading Posted at 6:33 PM \| Permalink

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May31	Connotea: Social Bookmarking for Scientists Diane Ensey May 31, 2006 Know More: Del.icio.us, Note Taking, Social Networking, Social Networks, Web 2.0, bookmark 2.0, Del.icio.us In a practical example of "More Signal, Less Noise," Connotea is a social bookmarking service aimed specifically at scientists and clinicians. Just what makes it different from Del.icio.us? Connotea grabs scientific journal and website bibliographic information, including author and journal name, automatically. The application also imports and exports references in RIS format, which is used by many desktop reference managers. For academic publishers, Connotea supports DOIs and OpenURL. Planned is the ability to search on the author/title/publication fields in addition to keywords. The only downside I see (as a non-scientist) is the inability to add information relating to non-web links - links from books or journals not online. With this functionality, Connotea would probably be a great overall tracking source for scientists. Posted at 11:37 AM \| Permalink
May31	MindJet's MindManager: Combine with WebEx for Collaboration Diane Ensey May 31, 2006 MindJet's excellent mind mapping software, MindManager, has a WebEx plugin which allows sharing and collaboration on Mind Maps. If you haven't used MindManager, but are familiar with mind mapping, the application is a treat. I use it constantly - to... Continue Reading Posted at 6:37 AM \| Permalink
May30	MicroSoft Office Ultimate Encouraging Corporate Open Source Switch? Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 It looks like the "ultimate" version of Office 2007 is going to have a heavy price tag - around US$650 for the stand-alone and around $500 for an upgrade. What will this get you? Quite a bit, but I doubt... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 PM \| Permalink
	Getting a Handle on OPML Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is a format for exporting and importing RSS feeds - useful if you want to share your feeds, but PR Week points out other uses for OPML.When creating a team, create an OPML file of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:17 AM \| Permalink
	Wridea - Competition for TaDa Lists? Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 Wridea is a note-taking application with a nice Ajax-y interface. Users can organize notes on individual pages and assign a category.The application is still in Beta, which is a good thing, because there are two features that are missing which... Continue Reading Posted at 7:47 AM \| Permalink
	Moleskin Notebooks: High Tech Bows to Low Tech Diane Ensey May 30, 2006 Life doesn't have to be all high-tech. Oftentimes we "bend over dollars to pick up pennies" with our time, spending hours figuring out how to make some cool gadget fit our needs when a low-tech solution would work the best.Sacha... Continue Reading Posted at 7:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May29	Online Word Processing Review: Writely Diane Ensey May 29, 2006 It has been several months since I checked out Writely, the online word processing application that allows collaboration. In checking out its process, I'm impressed. Tagging has been added, as has revision history and the ability to compare two documents. ... Continue Reading Posted at 10:05 PM \| Permalink
	Google Gapminder - Visualize World Demographics Diane Ensey May 29, 2006 Interesting in many ways, Google Gapminder is difficult for me to describe, so I will quote from their site:Gapminder is a non-profit venture that develops information technology for provision of free statistics in new visual and animated ways. In short,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:42 PM \| Permalink
	Advertise Using Podcasts Diane Ensey May 29, 2006 Podcasting is emerging from the domain of geeks into the business world just as blogging has. Gregory Galant, the CEO of RadioTail talks about podcasting and gives five tips for successful advertising using podcasting. The best tip? "Don't imitate broadcast... Continue Reading Posted at 9:44 AM \| Permalink
May27	Groove - Sharepoint's Cool Brother? Diane Ensey May 27, 2006 Microsoft's Groove 2007 is in Beta and I'm taking advantage of the 60 day trial to test it out. Groove is a workspace collaboration tool that works pretty much like every other tool. Much easier and more intuitive than Sharepoint,... Continue Reading Posted at 12:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May26	IM Etiquette Suggestions for Business (and Personal Life Too) Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 Another great Stowe Boyd interview - this one with Carl Tyler of Instant Technologies. They discuss instant messaging (IM) and guidelines that companies should have for its use. I won't quote the guidelines here - go read them, but I... Continue Reading Posted at 5:55 PM \| Permalink
	Flash Drives: Share Information and Easy Presentations Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 As a collaboration tool, flash drive (keychain drives, USB sticks) have great potential. Bert Webb uses his to keep files that he works on at home and work: "Now I simply set up a “Briefcase” (a windows folder designed to... Continue Reading Posted at 10:59 AM \| Permalink
	Using XML to Map the News Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 Interesting articles about what could be the future on online news: marking up stories in so that relationship clouds and localization is made easier. Writers code items such as quotes or assertations with the source info (name of the person... Continue Reading Posted at 10:04 AM \| Permalink
	The New Way to Search: Mapping Relationships Diane Ensey May 26, 2006 I am very interested in the way information can be shown as a cloud, with connections showing links and proximity and size illustrating importance. I'm not a huge fan of tag clouds - they just don't speak to me. I... Continue Reading Posted at 9:44 AM \| Permalink
May25	Focus on the Personal Instead of the Social Diane Ensey May 25, 2006 The main reason why social apps fail? They focus on social instead of personal.That is a direct quote from Joshua Porter and I agree completely. Once out of school, most people don't have the time and/or interest to pursue social... Continue Reading Posted at 4:30 PM \| Permalink
	The Dunbar Constant Diane Ensey May 25, 2006 In an interview between Stowe Boyd and Ross Mayfield, the CEO of Social Text, Stowe used the term the Dunbar Constant. I'd heard it before, but had no idea what it was. Strangely enough there is no Wikipedia entry on... Continue Reading Posted at 3:55 PM \| Permalink
	Wishlistr: Using a Wish List as a Motivational Business Tool Diane Ensey May 25, 2006 How do you reward your employees? Money isn't always the answer, and can actually work as a demotivator and company schwag - while neato, isn't actually motiviational (that may come as a surprise to some HR departments). How about having... Continue Reading Posted at 11:22 AM \| Permalink
May24	Collaboration Tools Need Integrated Full Text Searches Diane Ensey May 24, 2006 What originally got me interested in Central Desktop (see my review), was a post on their blog about the importance of search to collaborative applications.Good Collaboration Tools MUST have GOOD search integrated, otherwise, the tool is doomed to become a... Continue Reading Posted at 11:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Central Desktop - Collaboration Tool Rivals Sharepoint Diane Ensey May 24, 2006 Central Desktop is a collaboration application similar to Sharepoint, but somewhat easier to use. I really like how they describe their application: Organize With Central Desktop, information is at your fingertips instead of scattered across multiple desktops and inboxes. Group... Continue Reading Posted at 10:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May23	GoToMeeting vs. LiveMeeting - Cutting Edge Isn't Always the Best Diane Ensey May 23, 2006 In looking over my predecessor's posts, I saw one about GoToMeeting. He reported that the biggest disadvantage was the lack of VOIP, or ability to have voice integrated into your session. I use GoToMeeting on an almost daily basis with... Continue Reading Posted at 2:49 PM \| Permalink
	Specialists and Generalists: is Mechanical Turk the Blueprint for Future Work? Diane Ensey May 23, 2006 What if you managed a project or a business where the small details were farmed out to be done (and paid for) in micro-chunks. This is what Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service does. It is an online employment exchange for micro-tasks... Continue Reading Posted at 2:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Steve Rubel Analyzes Buzz with Google, Alexa, Technorati and Indeed.com Diane Ensey May 23, 2006 Steve's analysis of consumer interest/chatter ("buzz") about gas prices was an "aha" moment for me because he pulls together information from several sources to reach a conclusion. With all of these new metrics and analyzing tools coming out, it is... Continue Reading Posted at 10:28 AM \| Permalink
May22	Bringing Real Business to Second Life Diane Ensey May 22, 2006 I've been checking out Second Life for a week or so, but I still don't quite get it. But I need to stick with it, because everytime I shake my head and vow not to return, I read how people... Continue Reading Posted at 3:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Business Bloggers Needed for UMass Dartmouth Survey Diane Ensey May 22, 2006 Dr. Nora Barnes, the director of the Center for Media Research at University of Massachussets Dartmouth, is looking for business and professional bloggers to complete a three page survey (Word Doc) for a study on blogging that comes from bloggers... Continue Reading Posted at 12:58 PM \| Permalink
	Google Notebook Diane Ensey May 22, 2006 I've been testing Google Notebook for a week now and, for what it does, I like it. Google Notebook is basically a clipping and note-taking application hosted on Google servers. By adding a little plug-in to your browser you can... Continue Reading Posted at 9:24 AM \| Permalink
May21	GTD and Information Aggregators: How to Reconcile Them? Diane Ensey May 21, 2006 A few weeks back, Greg Knauss mused about information aggregators and the glut of stuff that they put in front of us. Years ago, someone phoned you and you weren't home, you missed the call and they had to try... Continue Reading Posted at 6:56 PM \| Permalink
	Joomla for Workgroups Diane Ensey May 21, 2006 Joomla is an open source content management system used for simple websites on up to complex corporate applications (according to the website). I've used Joomla for three websites, including my own site, and also use it when submitting articles for... Continue Reading Posted at 6:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May20	Audio Comments Coming Soon Diane Ensey May 20, 2006 Those who use Odeo’s podcasting service have access to audio comments – the ability of listeners to leave comments over their computer microphone that other listeners can hear as well. In the works is a WordPress plugin that will allow... Continue Reading Posted at 4:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Skypecast Beta a Good Start Diane Ensey May 20, 2006 Skype introduced Skypecasts this month as a way for groups of up to 100 members to participate in live, moderated conversations online. The idea is fantastic – the more so because it is free. Imagine attending virtual speeches or lectures... Continue Reading Posted at 4:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	DoRealTime New Author: Diane Ensey Diane Ensey May 20, 2006 I'm very excited to be taking over this blog from Jeff Carr - and I know I have some big shoes to fill.You may know me from my other KMM blog, AListReview. This blog is much, much different. I'll be... Continue Reading Posted at 4:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May13	Moving On Jeff Carr May 13, 2006 My participation with Do Real Time has been fun. I've tried to point you in a few new directions around the technologies that make up real-time collaboration and I hope that I've succeeded in that.Fortunately, and un-fortunately, my work at... Continue Reading Posted at 9:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May 7	Goodbye Sprint, Hello Vonage Jeff Carr May 7, 2006 About two months ago, Sprint screwed up my DSL order. It wasn't surprising, really. I could write for hours about all the screwups I've experienced from that company - landline as well as cellular, but no other telco serves my... Continue Reading Posted at 9:16 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May 4	Skypecasting Launch Jeff Carr May 4, 2006 Teleconferencing is an important part of online meetings, and Skype has once again changed the game with its latest launch of Skypecasting. This new service permits up to 100 participants to participate in a teleconference for up to 2 hours.... Continue Reading Posted at 4:45 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May 3	Sphere to Compete with Technorati Jeff Carr May 3, 2006 Michael Arrington at TechCrunch announces a new blogging search engine that takes a different approach to blog searches. Arrington describes it like this: Sphere search results can be viewed by date, relevance or a combination of both. Unlike Technorati, which... Continue Reading Posted at 6:33 PM \| Permalink

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