TOP 10 TOOLS 2007
Kevin Gamble

Kevin is the associate director responsible for IT for the U.S-based National eXtension Initiative that is a collaborative effort of 75 land-grant universities.  Kevin writes "This was a fun but hard exercise. I would have liked the list to have been longer. :)"

Kevin's Top 10 Tools as at 29 July 2007

1. Firefox - I've been using it for years. I make extensive use of extensions and tabs, and can't imagine using anything else.

2. Google Reader - I live in my feed reader. I *never* browse the Web. I've switched away from GR a couple of times but always come back.

3. Gmail - what's to say?

4. Blogger -  I've blogged using four different platforms and this has been the easiest yet. The way it integrates with the other Google tools makes its use a no-brainer.

5. yubnub -  i still make use of vertical search and there's nothing easier than Yubnub. It just fits the way I work.

6. Adium - we do lots of chatting through Jabber. I like using adium for connecting to multiple services using different protocols.

7. twitter - its use is not trivial. central to organizational communication and keeping my closest work group informed and on the same page.

8. Google Docs & Spreadsheets -   haven't used a desktop word processor in over 1.5 years. now that I can detach documents and spreadsheets directly into GD&Ss it doesn't get any easier.

9. MediaWiki - most collaborative work in our organization is done in a wiki and mediawiki is the tool of choice.

10. del.icio.us - it's where we share what has got our interest. social bookmarking just flat works for us as a collaborative tool. everyone in our workgroup uses it. Several del.iciou.us feeds are always in my top five Google Reader trends list