There’s always a shiny new toy– and with it the stampede to use.
Yes that was also me once too Nowadays I’ve learnt very slow, steady saves time and my sanity.
So I’m incredibly proud of the fact that I’ve never watched ANY Google Wave videos, read ANY tutorials and avoided every invite until I [...]
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Using Public Google Waves For Personal Learning
Categorized in Inspiring others to use Web 2.0, Working With Web 2.0 Tools, Working with Google Tools
Tags: Google Wave, PLN
Using Your Google Calendar To Help Manage Workload!
Using my email inboxes as my To-Do-List went so well yesterday I even managed to get through work tasks that I really hate and have a bad habit of delaying for weeks. Which made me think “How could my new skills to ensure I complete these tasks more timely?”
My solution ? Create events [...]
Categorized in Working With Web 2.0 Tools, Working with Google Tools
Getting Your Gmail Account Under Control And Working For You!
I’ve never been able to control my email accounts! Regardless of my actions emails flow in leading to major email infestation.
James’s explanation of how he uses his email accounts as his “to-do-list”; archiving emails that have been actioned immediately and keeping those that need follow up labeled in his Inbox has helped me to take [...]
Categorized in Working With Web 2.0 Tools, Working with Google Tools
Tags: Gmail
Update On Getting More Out Of Google Reader
Google has just added some more features to Google Reader so I thought it was appropriate to write a new post to update my post on Getting More Out of Google Reader. Thanks Martin Weller from The Ed Techie for alerting me to how recommendations have now been added to Google Reader (answer to [...]
Tags: Google Reader
Getting More Out Of Google Reader
Managing information using RSS is an important skill to learn however it is an area that people starting out struggle with. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) means that whenever new information is added to a site (e.g. your favourite blog) it comes to you instead of you having to continuously check the site. [...]
Tags: Feed Reader, Google Reader
Love iGoogle – Get iGoogle Skins!
Gabriela is an ABSOLUTE LEGEND – she knows what I am an interested in and as a member of my del.icio.us network, she adds bookmarks for web sites to my del.icio.us account that she KNOWS I WILL LIKE. If you are not familar with del.icio.us or want to learn how to use del.icio.us more [...]
Categorized in Working With Web 2.0 Tools, Working with Google Tools
Tags: iGoogle
Why Does Technorati Mock Me?
Admittedly people might question why I should worry about what Technorati thinks of me. To be honest, I don’t care, but I do care that many of my favourite bloggers prefer to read posts by subscribing to technorati tags than to blogs. So if I want them to read my posts I need [...]
Tags: Google Blog Searches, Technorati
Why Didn’t I install Google Analytics Sooner?
There is one very simple reason why I have taken so long to install better statistics on my blog – working out what to do when you first start blogging can be overwhelming!
When I first set up this blog, I did google the topic which gave me lots of articles on all the different options [...]
Categorized in Tips For Better Blogging, Working with Google Tools
Tags: Google Analytics
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