Dave is owner of
innovate!create performance consulting where he
focuses on helping organizations build more strategic
learning functions through organizational and technical
innovations. He is also the blogmeister for
Learning Circuits Blog. He also publishes
eelearning where he shares his personal perspective
on learning and learning in the workplace. Dave
currently lives in Palm Springs, California with his 6
1/2 year-old black lab, Diva.
Dave's Top 10 Tools
as at 30 July 2007
Vyew -
easy to use, collaborate, multi-functional, free for
use, and accessible from any computer connected to
the internet. You can't beat that combination.
Enables both formal and informal group learning
activities.
del.icio.us
-
At first I simply didn't
"get" del.icio.us. it
seemed to simple. But it's simplicity is its
secret. With the launch of the Firefox del.icio.us
extension, I was won over. Enables easy storage of
found resources by individuals or groups. Tagging
opens all resources labeled as "not private" to any
del.icio.us member.
Zoho Creator -
This application is very
sophisticated for those who need the best but also
modulates so that it is accessible for all
customers. Creator takes away the hardest part
of annecdotal data which
is the establishment and maintenance the
databases. Simply create your data collection files
and then create any number of reports from that
particular area. Forms and reports can be into
websites and blogs ot perform data collection and
subsequent reporting.
CoComment
-
Allows you to track
comments to posts in blogs across the
blogosphere to track the
conversations - whether
you comment or not. you
can do this for your own
reading purposes, or you
can utilize a widget
that will post comments
you've made throughout
the blogosphere in the
sidebar of your blog.
LinkedIn -
This social networking site for business
minded folks has been compelling from its start and
remains so today.
Google Docs, Google
Page Creator,
Gmail -
While they don't have the power and depth of
Microsoft Office, these tool make up for it with
their simultaneous editing capabilities, their easy
of access to and from the web and their overall useability.
Ning -
a tool designed to
enable anyone - regardless of their knowledge of
programming and/or mark-up languages - can create
their own online social network. Ning is intuitive and easy to use. The
have begun to add all sorts of widgets and other
add-on functionality to allow any community to
customize the environment to make it uniquely their
own. Enables instructors to create classroom
communities, organizations to create viral interest
groups, informal learning through communities of
interest, etc.
Trailfire
-
Simply the best web notation tool yet put out there.
It can be used by individual and groups to make and
organize notes about websites that appear as a
callout when they visit that site. It can also
be used to create a "tour" of websites around a
particular topic. Each of the "trailmarks" has the
ability to display text, audio, video and enables
blog-like comments regarding each note.
Trailfire enables the creation of pre-designed tours
of the web for new employees, collaboration amongst
team mates who contribute best practice sites and
comment on each others contributions, or can serve
as a mini-blog on competitors and market conditions
for a sales force.
Mind42
and MindMeister -
I'm currently torn between which of these tools
I prefer. They are very similar in the
capabilities and what they have that none of the
other online tools has is simultaneous
collaboration. Team
decision making, project planning, strategic
planning, and brainstorming are a few of the
activities that can be enhanced through
collaborative mind mapping
What are your
Top 10 tools - for
your own personal working and learning
and/or
creating, delivering or supporting others' learning?
Let us know
