Socialtext is another enterprise level vendor of wikis/blogging tools that belongs on the same short list as Traction Software. Both have been serving the market for several years. Socialtext started from the wiki end of the spectrum. They have just made the strategic decision to open source their toolset. Socialtext Open I’m pleased to announce [...]
A reminder from Bill Ives about the folks at Traction Software. They aren’t quite as visible in the general blogging market given their origins and focus on the enterprise market. Their tools, however, are robust and nicely bridge the fluid capabilities that make blogs and wikis such powerful tools for supporting knowledge work and the [...]
I’m beginning to suspect that the folks at MindJet have a secret plan for world domination. MindManager is rapidly evolving into a platform for doing the hard part of knowledge work and this is one more example. I’ve lately found that I am spending more and more of my ‘think time’ working inside of MindManager. [...]
Some interesting thoughts on how mindmaps can work in the context of case-based learning. I'll admit to long-term biases in favor of case-based learning properly done. I come by these biases having worked all sides of the experience; case method student, case writer, and case-based discussion leader. Doing it well can be exceptionally powerful. Doing [...]
This is an exciting addition to the upcoming BlawgThing conference. I've been using and advocating mindmaps for years (I have one 26-year old hand drawn mindmap near my desk that I used to organize my studying for exams at the end of my first year of business school). MindManager was the first, and in my [...]
I posted something recently talking about how I am using my laptop as a test bed for various Web 2.0 ideas ( Experimenting with Web 2.0 on my laptop ). Several people have asked for more details on that environment. Here is what I am running today: Hardware: IBM T41 with 1GB of memory and [...]
WordPress Theme Toolkit. Here’s a nice little toolkit. If you’re not the best PHP programmer in the world, then this might be for you. It simplifies some things that might be hard for a PHP novice. From the author’s mouth: Adding an admin menu in your theme ensures that end users can customise things without [...]
WordPress Plugin: Image Zoom. Now this is one pretty durn cool plugin. It allows the users of your website to zoom in on an image if they want. All they have to do is click on the image, and voila!, it’s zoomed. Anyway, it’s very cool stuff, so check it out. [Blogging Pro]
Dowload of The Day: BartPE. BartPE is a free utility that lets you build a live CD-based copy of Windows XP that can be used for data recovery. Bart's PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, [...]
WP plugin: LinkNotes. WP plugin: LinkNotes Produce footnotes in WordPress blogs. [Weblog Tools Collection]
