Andrea is a professor
for information management at the Business School University
St. Gallen, based in Switzerland. She is active in teaching
and research oriented consulting in the fields of
technology-assisted learning, knowledge management and
enterprise social software. In the field of Enterprise 2.0
her weblog
www.business20.ch provides video-blogposts with
interviews that are also hosted on Youtube, and that
complement her co-edited book
Web 2.0 in der
Unternehmenspraxis.
Andrea's Top 10 Tools as at
6 March 2008 (in the
order of their importance for my work and intensity of use)
Lotus Mail
- I still love the possibility to work
offline sometimes (although this limits types of
task that can be done). I use Google-Mail for
private purposes, but I do not like the idea that
all data is observed and used by google. Therefore I
would prefer to not use Google-Mail for work as I do
not feel in "control" what they do with this data
now and in the future.
Firefox
Browser - It just works fine. Some time ago IE
caused problems so I had to restart the computer.
Then i switched and see no need to go back again.
Google
Reader - Allows me to browse fast through the
feeds, search them, mark those I want to get back
to.
Skype -
Makes people far away feel close. And I love to use
the mood-message-line for Twitter-like microblogging
Wordpress
- A new form of publishing, it makes me think
about core insights of my work I want to share; and
people interested in impact don't have to read the
full journal paper
Powerpoint
- Even though I reduce the amount of slides and
text, I still find it very useful to illustrate my
ideas and capture them for later use and sharing
flickr - It
is the resource for clipart, when I create slides. A
wonderful resource with many Creative-Commons
attributed licences, so you do not infringe
copyrights
Moviemaker - simple enough for a user like me to
produce my short educational movies myself if I
like. And the output looks good enough for webpage
use
Youtube - A
source for educational videos that I check and use
more and more for my lectures and other
presentations
PaintNet -
An open Source tool simple, and good enough for my
needs to edit fotos, especially to add text.
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