Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Do you own your own library. I do. It's online at http://www.diigo.com/user/zmanrdz

Diigo is a place where you store all the articles that you have read online.  Why would you want to do this?  Well lets say you have a class that you need to write a paper on.  You have tagged all the articles with words that correspond with the content like "Reading".  You click on the "Reading" tag and you have all your resources for your paper.  But that's not all!  You can know follow people that have tagged articles on "Reading" and you now have more resources than you can every use.  The power of collaboration at it's best.  Take the time out of research,  Find your research with out digging into stacks of paper  and start making your professional life a little less crazy.  Maybe even un-clutter your house a little.

Sign up for your account today at www.diigo.com

Friday, March 5, 2010

RSS Feeds. Have one yet? If not you are behind the times!

RSS = Real Simple Syndication.  Why waste time looking for information, when you can ask your computer to bring this information to you. Free yourself from going to your local news web page to read.  Love flowers find the latest and greatest in the florist industry.  Keep up to date with news from your favorite college or university.  Wikipedia defines RSS as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

So how do you sign up?
Download a free reader at:
http://www.rssowl.org/download

Or get your online Reader at:
http://www.google.com/reader