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Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

April 28th, 2008

How to Use Twitter Productively

It’s easy to get addicted to social networks, and this is why many employers frown on them and ban them from company servers. However, with a bit of practice, even the biggest time waster can be converted into a productivity tool. Yes, even Twitter (add me here). Here are some ways to […]

By Celine -- 0 comments

February 28th, 2008

The Corporate Worker’s Guide to Evaluating a Facebook Profile

When we think of “cleaning up” one’s social networking profile, we often restrict this to business sites like LinkedIn. However, nowadays, many experts are recommending that you also polish your Facebook profiles.
And why shouldn’t you? Odds are, potential employers and business contacts could be looking at it (see this article from CBS News […]

By Celine -- 3 comments

September 19th, 2007

I’ve talked about ThinkFree: Now You Can Try It For Yourself

I’ve talked about ThinkFree before, and since then have been using it pretty much exclusively over MS Office.  It rocks.  It’s light, responsive, and really has only the things you need to get the job done.
I’ve been using ThinkFree Premium as an online office organizer, I put all the docs related to a project in […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments

July 11th, 2007

Download the beta of CrossLoop early…try the new features early

CrossLoop is a simple and easy remote access and control application that I’ve tried and used before…with great results.  I got an e-mail from them this week letting me know that some new features were on the way.  Profy.com beat me to the punch with a review…
So what’s new in this release? First of all, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

July 9th, 2007

Find open-source alternatives to commercial software

I like using open-source and commercial software.  Sometimes when you’re trying to get someone set up on a new machine and you just have to have something like Photoshop, what are you going to do?  If they are only going to use it once and a while (or just once) why buy it?
There are great […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

July 3rd, 2007

Zoho comes to Facebook…Facebook ready for business

Just last week the question of whether Facebook could be used as a collaboration tool on the cheap.  Now Zoho has announced that it released a Facebook application to connect to its online office suite:
Also included in the release is a central control panel where users can manage all of their private and shared documents […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

June 25th, 2007

Will online office applications help me do more?

On Friday Read/Write Web did a review of the web office apps specifically with students in mind, I also saw via Lifehacker some really cool “hidden” features of Google Spreadsheets and these articles got me to wonder if online office apps can really help most folks in their day-to-day work.
Read/Write Web did a web office app […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

May 31st, 2007

Microsoft Surface as the desk of the future

While the world seemed to be ga-ga over Microsoft Surface, Michael Sampson had some of the best, OMG this could be used for…thoughts I saw:
And … if Surface can work like this … then there’s going to be a huge revision in office desking and tables in the decade ahead. This is a sea-change for […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

May 31st, 2007

Making the case for Enterprise 2.0

Are you trying to bring Web 2.0 into your work place?  You know that wikis, RSS, blogs, and other apps will save you time but you can’t quite get the boss to sign on?
I know the feeling.  I’ve snuck more than my share of apps over the years into companies.  The only way got away […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

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