Becoming a Delicious Power User

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Many people see Delicious (and other social bookmarking sites like Diigo) as simply a replacement for the bookmarks/favorites menu in their browser. One that they can access from anywhere instead of just their personal computer. However, that’s just the basics. Adopting these simple habits could turn Delicious into a life-changing information manager. Mark Everything! – [...]

An Introduction to RSS and Google Reader

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With all the information spread across the web, it can be very difficult to keep up with everything in even the small part that interests you. Keeping a list of bookmarks and visiting all those pages one at a time works fine when the number of sites you track is small. After a while, however, [...]

You Don’t Have Too Much Information. You’re Using the Wrong Tools!

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If you attended my session at the VSTE 2010 conference (or another conference/workshop session), thank you! And thanks for visiting my little corner of the web as well. If you didn’t attend, please feel free to use anything on this page for your personal learning. All of the sites and other materials I referenced during the [...]

Managing Information Overload

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How much information do you process every day? For the typical educator, it’s a lot. Take a look at your bookmark/favorites list. If you’re like most people, it’s much longer than your screen and is probably not very well organized. It would also take you far more time than you have in a day to [...]