Raw notes: Tuesday Afternoon Session: Winning Strategies to Conquer Information Overload

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Kathy Schrock

Session Description: Learn how to get your game on from the gadget geek and Web 2.0 wizard who will offer tips or managing the information you want and need.

kathy@kathyschrock.net

http://kathyschrock.net/score/

alex courosa -
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talked about the change in getting information

how to do you keep up with all that is being posted?
how do you find your little niche to post your thoughts?

Personal process
-check email and respond, twitter blogs, facebook, etc.

Plan your work and work your plan. -Vince Lombardi

Simple ideas:

• -email
  • -estimated that 2009 people will spend 41% of time on email
  • -she categorized emails. got rid of the ones she really didn’t need to look at.
  • -set up mail filters
  • -my thoughts – the interface matters here. FC sucks for this. gmail rules for this.
  • -talked about the diff betwqeen pop and imap – imap better – good for her
  • -gmail + multiple accounts + IMAP(mobileme) is good
• -hardware to help
  • -netbooks – talked about reccomendations for them
  • -”very smart” phones
  • -she loves the iphone
  • -made a video to convince her admins to buy them
  • -peek – email only device
  • -chumby – pull info from websites. sits on your counter
  • -kindle    - including the ipod/iphone version
• -take photos on white boards, flipchart, slideshow
• -easy way to get notes to lots of people without recreating digital version

• Online Tools (some samples)

-online faxing – Faxage
-$7.95 a month
-get an email when you get a fax
-keeps stuff digital
-my thoughts – who still faxes?
-rss, feeds, and newsreaders
-subscribing to data instead of going to get it
-igoogle
-google alerts – receive an email when a topic is mentioned online
-social networks
-facebook, myspace, inkedIn, Ning
-mentioned classroom20.com ning

• -”Give back to the web. Don’t ever think that you have nothing to give back.”
• -Facebook – talking groups and the ability to lock permission down. Privacy isn’t an issue if you just engage in how Facebook works.
  -twitter – microblogging – as most people, she didn’t “get it” at first. Only was valuable when other people joined and she expanded her personal learning network
  -”If a question can’t be answered in 140 charachters, don’t ask it on twitter.”
  -talked about tags

• -showed a visualization of twitter during the last super bowl
  • -edmodo – like twitter but private
  • -twitter for education
  • -more like a social network
  • -mini moodle
  • -FREE!!

-online bookmarks
-she started on delicious then moved to diigo because of the organizing tools
-mentioned foxmarks plugin to sync bookmarks
-task-keeping
-voo2do.com and basecamphw.com for groups
-remember the milk – mobile multiple point accessible to-do list
-google docs and google apps
-google apps make it easy to keep things private within the domain. get around public sharing of data but still give the ability to particiapte with kids sharing of information.
-etherpad
-free for 8 users
-just send a url
-no account needed
-everyone can type live at the same time
-cloud storage
-storing all your “stuff” in the could
-having all your files accessible all the time
-mentioned netops – web based oses
-glide os – os in the browser
-just log in and ave all your stuff
-also runs on mobile devices
-means you have access to a desktop environment and files from everywhere
-MobileMe
-online file storage
-getdropbox.com
-ripway.com
-drop.io – her favorite – 100MBs of free online storage space
-simple free file storage and collection service
-Thinkature – voice or text chat. workspace

Final Thoughts
-Don’t get caught up with knowing or using everything. Be the filter for knowledge growth.

http://kathyschrock.net/score

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