Comments for online work, technology and life http://www.riza.com/vt notes on working online, virtual teams, online communities, social design and whatever else takes my fancy Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on digital organisation by jen http://www.riza.com/vt/2010/04/26/digital-organisation/comment-page-1/#comment-44973 jen Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:44:50 +0000 http://www.riza.com/vt/?p=203#comment-44973 the visual is exactly what i like about personal brain. they do have a cloud version but i haven't checked into how they sync. they have lots of videos on the site to show uses so have a look at them. am liking evernote though... the visual is exactly what i like about personal brain. they do have a cloud version but i haven’t checked into how they sync. they have lots of videos on the site to show uses so have a look at them.

am liking evernote though…

]]> Comment on digital organisation by smyles http://www.riza.com/vt/2010/04/26/digital-organisation/comment-page-1/#comment-44942 smyles Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:11:32 +0000 http://www.riza.com/vt/?p=203#comment-44942 i use evernote. it is cross platform, can be accessed from your phone but synchronizes across all the different systems, so you have multiple local copies, plus one in the evernote "cloud". it lets you add tags, group things into notebooks and handles stuff like pdfs and pictures. the one thing i feel it lacks is a way to visually play with ideas - to work with them on a canvas, to move them around. sort of like whiteboarding. i used to be able to do that with tinderbox - but that is strictly mac only (despite promises for years of a windows version). plus tinderbox is pre cloud, so it doesn't synchronize. i use prezi for my visual thinking now, which doesn't integrate at all with evernote or anything else, really. i use evernote. it is cross platform, can be accessed from your phone but synchronizes across all the different systems, so you have multiple local copies, plus one in the evernote “cloud”. it lets you add tags, group things into notebooks and handles stuff like pdfs and pictures.

the one thing i feel it lacks is a way to visually play with ideas – to work with them on a canvas, to move them around. sort of like whiteboarding. i used to be able to do that with tinderbox – but that is strictly mac only (despite promises for years of a windows version). plus tinderbox is pre cloud, so it doesn’t synchronize. i use prezi for my visual thinking now, which doesn’t integrate at all with evernote or anything else, really.

]]> Comment on blackboard by jen http://www.riza.com/vt/2006/08/05/blackboard/comment-page-1/#comment-223 jen Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:45:10 +0000 http://www.riza.com/vt/?p=122#comment-223 updating this story: <a href="http://davecormier.com/edblog/?p=69" rel="nofollow">dave cormier</a> discusses the money and political side. updating this story:

dave cormier discusses the money and political side.

]]> Comment on circular path of books by Administrator http://www.riza.com/vt/2006/02/07/circular-path-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Administrator Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:39:54 +0000 http://www.riza.com/vt/?p=41#comment-20 just saw a <a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/02/whats_on_your_v.html" rel="nofollow">post on creating passionate users blog</a> re: how you can tell more about a person based on their reading selection than if they'd introduce themselves and one of the blog's authors (kathy) took a pix of her real coffee table books. almost all the books i've named here in my post are on that table. amusing. just saw a post on creating passionate users blog re: how you can tell more about a person based on their reading selection than if they’d introduce themselves and one of the blog’s authors (kathy) took a pix of her real coffee table books.

almost all the books i’ve named here in my post are on that table. amusing.

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