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The typical professional services company, on the other hand, is a lot like a blueberry pancake. While there's an essential support team, the firm is all about blueberries working in parallel. Each blueberry can work independently, and sometimes they even work on projects that might have conflicting outcomes or views of the world. I don't care how many people report to you. I care about how connected and how brave you are. Delete the scoop?
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Todoist Karma is a visual tracking system that monitors your task management activities and displays your productivity trends. See your progress, earn points, and challenge yourself to achieve greater productivity! Delete the scoop?
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Helping students become quality Tutorial Designers has been on my mind and agenda. The reasons are plentiful, from the train of thought "if you can teach it, you know it", being a vital skill in th...
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February 23, 6:01 AM
Check this out, please! Very interesting for Teachers and Students...
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February 24, 10:15 AM
This checklist also identifies blooms taxonomy, but applies digital media technologies. This list is also demonstrates the methods used in the design and development of video games. Delete the scoop?
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With this arsenal of tips, tricks, and third-party tools, you can bend Google to your will and extract more from its services than ever before. Via Gust MEES Delete the scoop?
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CapturetoCloud is a web-based app that allows anyone to capture, collect and organize into collections any type of image, PDF, web page or Google doc that can be found online.
CapturetoCloud offers the option to keep collections "private", and to invite any number of people to collaborate and contribute to any specific collection.
Free version available (limited to capturing 200 items and having three collections).
Read a full review about CapturetoCloud: http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/15/webware/free-online-collaboration-tool-to-collaborate-on-a-task-together.html
Plans and pricing: http://capturetocloud.com/plans-pricing/
Video tutorials: http://capturetocloud.com/products/videos/
More info: http://capturetocloud.com/
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Five conference technology mindsets that can play havoc with most organizations. Via Robert H. Rich, Ph.D., CAE 
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December 19, 2012 3:32 PM
This is a nice realistic look at what often shapes bad technology decisions around meetings. 
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January 8, 12:05 PM
This is a nice realistic look at what often shapes bad technology decisions around meetings. Delete the scoop?
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Both ancient philosophy and modern psychology suggest that darker thoughts can make us happier, writes Oliver Burkeman.
Interesting article from an unexpected source: the Wall Street Journal. Via Willy De Backer 
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December 11, 2012 3:03 PM
I'm appreciative of this confirmation of , this reaction I've always felt against the preachers of 'pure positivity.' Delete the scoop?
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PechaKucha or Pecha Kucha (Japanese: ペチャクチャ, IPA: [petɕa ku͍̥tɕa],[1]chit-chat) is a presentation methodology in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (six minutes and 40 seconds in total). The format, which keeps presentations concise and fast-paced, powers multiple-speaker events called PechaKuchaNights (PKNs)[2] or Pecha Kucha Nights.[3] PechaKucha Night was devised in February 2003[4][5] by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo's Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa), as a way to attract people to SuperDeluxe, their experimental event space in Roppongi, and to allow young designers to meet, show their work, and exchange ideas.[6] In 2004, a few cities in Europe began holding PKNs, the first of several hundred cities that have since launched similar events around the world.[7][8] As of June 2012, PechaKucha Nights were held in 534 cities worldwide.[9] PechaKucha is a presentation methodology in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (six minutes and 40 seconds in total). The format, which keeps presentations concise and fast-paced, powers multiple-speaker events called PechaKuchaNights. Delete the scoop?
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Google launched a tool to allow site owners to disavow links.
The tool itself if really easy to use. But Google doesn’t want you to think that everyone should rush to use it right away. Google has been very clear that they consider this an advanced tool for “Power Users” and not something that everyone needs. In other words: people should be careful messing around with it.
Here are some key points that you should consider: Via Level343 Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good: Network World has published an interesting and valuable report comparing eight different web-based web conferencing services. Their selection of conferencing tools to compare includes Adobe Connect, Cisco Webex, Citrix GotoMeeting, InterCall Unifed Meeting (in beta with v5), LogMeIn Join.Me Pro, Microsoft Lync 2013 (in beta, and part of Office 365), Skype Premium (now owned by Microsoft), and Vyew.com Professional. Full article (requires registration): http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2012/102212-desktop-videoconferencing-test-263197.html Testing methodology: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/439694/how_we_tested_web-based_conferencing_services/?fp=4&fpid=18 Via Robin Good Delete the scoop?
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Ineffective meetings, waste time and money, as well as contributing towards creating a poor opinion of the skills of the chairperson by the reluctant attendees. Meetings in any business need not be tedious, time wasting, demoralising or simply painful, instead chairpersons should aim to run great meetings, where the talent in the room is leveraged and everyone's time is used effectively. This excellent article, identifies the seven reasons meetings usually suck, and it then provides 10 tips that chairpeople can follow to ensure that their meetings run effectively. Via Daniel Watson 
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February 19, 8:41 AM
THis article contais some sublte hints for the chairperson to leverage all the talent in the room and make sure everyone's time is used effectively. 
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February 20, 11:42 AM
Nothing worse than a pointless meeting or a meeting about a meeting. Some great tips to be found here. Delete the scoop?
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Business owners and managers, should be constantly on the look out for tools that can make a difference in the level of their competitiveness, in the market they serve. Currently, online tools are proving to be extremely popular at both reducing costs and improving productivity, and a solid understanding of what is available and what features are available in each offering, is needed by all business owners and managers. This excellent infographic, provides a great summary of what is available online (not only for freelancers), and it provides the background to how the popularity of these tools was assessed. Via Gerrit Bes, Gregg Breward, Daniel Watson Delete the scoop?
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For the past 30 years my company has been involved in creating over 2,500 different performance-based job descriptions that define the actual work a person needs to do to be considered successful. Based on preparing these performance-based job descriptions for jobs like camp counselor at the YMCA, accountants and engineers from staff to VPs, mid- and senior-level executives in industries ranging from automotive and aerospace to construction and consumer products, I can conclude that there are only four different jobs in the whole world. Delete the scoop?
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SmartPulse -- our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media -- tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and Via Beth Kanter 
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February 19, 10:05 PM
Time management tips abound everywhere, yet dispite the volume of advice made freely available, business owners as a whole, still seem to struggle to make more effective use of the time they have available to give to their business. Obviously, tips alone are not enough change behaviour, and what appears to be needed is a clearer understanding of the challenges one faces and must overcome, to be better placed to make more effective use of time. This excellent article, avoids providing the usual time management tips, and instead, it provides a list of 10 challenges business owners must work to overcome, before they can successfully make better use of their time. 
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February 20, 7:59 AM
(From the article): Challenge 1: I don’t know what I want. The best way of overcoming this problem is to set aside a little time every day just to think. The most successful people in the world recognize the need for think time, and make a conscious effort to set that time aside. For many it becomes a kind of ritual. Delete the scoop?
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Boomerang has saved my life .... I use it to schedule emails and it is extremely useful.
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A free service that makes publishing content on the web as easy as writing an email. Create and share your Tackk now! Via Kathleen Cercone 
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December 30, 2012 8:27 PM
This is amazing! I was looking for something that my students can use to hand in their assignments online, so it can be shared via a learnist board. For students who would like to have a blog this is not a problem, but for those who do not wish to blog, Tackk is like blogging without a blog. Amazing. 
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February 10, 8:48 AM
Partilhem a vossa mensagem, one Tackk at a time. Delete the scoop?
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As a business journalist, I looked forward to information from a handful of specific sources each quarter. In fact, my quarterly e-commerce reports would wait Via Karen Dietz, Beth Kanter 
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December 14, 2012 5:46 PM
Yeah -- what a great reminder! Craft your biz stories as sequenced content! Better yet, plan a content campaign of sequential articles with a narrative arc. Or serialize a narrative over several posts! That is where my mind went after reading this article. Now the author here is really just talking about creating a series of posts over time all on the same topic that work together. But my storytelling mind said "Woah! There is a lot more here that could be done." So this article presents a great idea -- but doesn't go quite far enough for all us biz storytellers. Yet it is still worth curating and reading because of all the tips and points it does make. Dig in (it's not long), get the interesting stats showing how sequenced content gets results, and start connecting the stories together in a series of articles/blog posts, etc! This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling atwww.scoop.it/t/just-story-it
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December 15, 2012 1:52 PM
Thank you Beth for re-scooping this! And LOL, I see we both scooped the local stories piece from NPR. Great minds think alike!
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Collect knowledge about your website’s visitors with UserReport’s free online survey tool. Measure usability and gather key demographics on visitors. Use the ‘ready-to-go’ survey or customize with your own logo, colours and questions.
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At the List of Authoring Tools: Part 3 you will find 37 Authoring Tools for the creation and development of online courses. Total number of Authoring Tools 127!
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Professor Paul Gary Wyckoff articulates the critical thinking skills he wants his students to learn.
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Let’s be honest, we don’t like to read big pieces of text. Text-heavy graphs are rather difficult for understanding, especially when dealing with numbers and statistics. That is why illustrations and flowcharts are often used for such kind of information. An infographic, or a visual representation of study or data, like anything else, can be done right or wrong. How to create a successful infographic? A good idea and a good design. Stop by the link for more on what defines an infographic, what contributes to its popularity, as well as the various types of infographics and references for tutorials and best practices. Additional topics covered include:
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As a freelance writer and professional blogger, it is essential to have a reliable arsenal of tools that allow you to promote your blog and manage your...
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Instead of doing your research at the start of the week and pre-scheduling your content, a new emphasis has been placed on real-time content discovery. Here are Adam Vincenzini's suggestions to discover and curate content in real-time... 1. Bottlenose.com This combines your Twitter and LinkedIn activity preferences with a continuous scan of trending topics to serve up semi-tailored results in real-time 2. rt.ly (aka realtime from bit.ly) This serves up content with stats telling you how popular it is as the time of searching 3. Sulia.com The tag line for this is the 'interest network' with a most attractive user experience 4. Alternion.com Another service which combines your own social media preferences with some real-time discovery and organisation. Social Buzz works by taking your keywords, running a search and then adding the analytics associated with those results to give you the most relevant content options. Real-time discovery of quality content is becoming more important as pre-scheduling older content no longer has the same impact The Chart explains this in more detail: The best time to find and share content is during the 'real-time content discovery hot spot' which means you're more likely to be viewed by your networks as a news breaker as opposed to a news follower. By Adam Vincenzini. http://bit.ly/QErqXP Source. http://bit.ly/PpVKG1 Via maxOz, Ken Horst Delete the scoop?
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