This weekly digest is created to keep you informed about the latest developments concerning the topics of our community of practice. This week nice tools for PowerPoint to integrate Twitter in your presentations, top 10 web collaboration tools and a five minute presentation on how you can effectively visualize information.
- Intranets – stop benchmarking, start leading
For a while now, of all the big analyst firms, Forrester has continued to output some well thought out research and analysis on the information management space. Along with this piece on workforce technology adoption (summarised on ReadWrite Enterprise) and also another on barriers to intranet use (discussed by Bill Ives on the Fast Forward blog). - Social media gains importance to packagers and suppliers
Emerging forms of communication prove valuable for packaging professionals worldwide - Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines
Several years ago, a modified version of OS X was presented to Steve Jobs, running on a multitouch tablet. When the question "what would people do with this?" couldn't be answered, they shelved it. Long having established music, movie and TV content, Apple is working hard to load up iTunes with print content from several major publishing houses across several media. - Facebook Cracks Down on Devs, Suspends Apps Over Bad Ads
In its first big move to implement the stricter ad guidelines it introduced this summer, Facebook recently suspended applications that served advertisements with deceptive content within them. The apps were suspended without warning, leaving developers confused as to why Facebook took this action and didn’t give them a chance to handle the offending ads first, according to Nick O’Neill over at AllFacebook, who first reported the story over the weekend. This confusion is likely a result of a problem we discussed earlier: Facebook’s vagueness about how its ad approval process actually works. - Podcasting Just Might Be the Tool to Revolutionize Education
Schools all over the country have flocked to podcasting as a new medium to assist the teaching profession. Professors are using podcasts to instruct students and get their messages out. Podcasting is not restricted to one educational sector, professors at prestigious colleges from Bentley to Purdue have flocked to this medium. - Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience
From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues. - Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave) – Collaboration – Lifehacker
You've probably heard about a hard-to-get, hugely new service called Google Wave. Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don't require learning a new way of speaking. Here are a few of our (mostly free) favorites. - FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools | Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology
A beta version of PowerPoint Twitter Tools is now available for testing. Based on SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology, the twitter tools allow PowerPoint presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. - Ident Engine – A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web
Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We've filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints. - » Would You Please Block? Bud the Teacher
Ever since we opened up lots more of the Internet in our school district earlier this year, the district has received several requests from teachers and other staff to block resources that are distractions in the classroom. I’ve written a stock response to those requests that I thought might be worth sharing. It’s my hope that their requests and the conversations that come from this response lead to changes in classroom practice.
Light reading:
- UX: An art in search of a methodology
- Social Business Design
- Preparing for Multi-touch in Flash – A Primer
- Effective Information Visualization: How to Visualize Meaning
- 23 Brilliant Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life
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Rick Mans is a social media evangelist within Capgemini. You can follow and connect with him via Twitter or Delicious
