Tools
There are many interesting tools for social computing and related fun, and more coming online every day! I won’t attempt to catalog all of them. But if you haven’t tried these, they may be worth your time to check out.
Yammer - a microblogging tool for the Enterprise. Its very similar to Twitter, except that only employees with a valid company email can join your company network. There are iphone applications for both Yammer and Twitter.
Twitter Check this out! Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s video overview of the service and his own inspiration for it. http://www.vimeo.com/1094070?pg=embed&sec=1094070, and http://internettime.com/2008/08/15/enterprise-twitter/
This video gives a real feel for the use and value. Also my blog post on Twitter for the Enterprise. And see this article about tools that make Twitter even more useful.
Wordle - is a great, free online tool for creating “text clouds”. I used it to create the text cloud in the banner on the home page of this blog. The tool has a variety of drop down menus that allow you to change the appearance of the cloud. When I get one I like, I take a screen shot and paste it into PowerPoint, crop it, and save it as an image for further manipulation.
Animoto – allows you to create music ‘videos’ out of your own photos and music that you upload. It
Mashups - Programmable Web is a great resource
Create a new social network www.ning.com
Slide Share – a great tool for sharing slide presentations via web browser.
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