Clawing Your Way Back to Your Life – Inbox Pause
I’ve been trying to be less email reactive for the past six months, but it’s been...
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Category: Organizing Your Digital Self
Digital Organization: Create a clickable resume!
In Michigan, unemployment is somewhere between 15 and 20%, depending on who’s collecting the data. Consequently, there are a lot of stories in the news about job fairs, interviewing techniques, and resume advice. After...
Read MoreDigital Organizers: Set up Google Alerts!
It’s relatively simple to monitor what your name is doing on the web. Set up a web alert that will notify you when a new occurrence of your name goes into the search engine. The most common alert systems are Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts.
Read MoreDigital Decluttering: Get Control of Your Unruly Data
This week, I tackled a non-digital task that has been driving me nuts for years. I had one spice rack and two spice drawers, but whenever I needed to find a spice, I ended up looking in all three places. Even worse, I had to...
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Digital Decluttering: Sort those files!
This is Part 2 of a series on how to Organize Your Digital Self. My guess is that you manage to...
Read MoreDigital Decluttering: Clean up those profiles!
This is the first installment of what will likely be a 52-week series. The series is based on a conference/webinar presentation I’ve been doing for a while now called Organize Your Digital Self (OYDS). Perhaps...
Read MoreTeaching and Learning in the Digital Age
Two years ago at the beginning of the fall semester, I was given the chance to speak to the faculty on my campus about technologies for teaching and getting organized, which is how the mindmaps Web 2.0 for You and Organize Your...
Read MoreOrganizing your Desktop with RealDesktop
I am at a MathDL pow-wow in Washington DC and tonight was our first meeting – dinner. After mentioning Bumptop (which is in beta-testing) to the folks at my table, I got curious about why I hadn’t seen anything...
Read MoreOrganizing your Digital Self (updated)
This is the second part of my workshop at DTL, called Organizing your Digital Self. Like “Web 2.0 for You!” it was originally built in January 2008 using the Mindomo platform.Click here to play with Organizing your...
Read MoreHow to replace a Screencast file without losing the URL
Occasionally I (gasp) find there is a mistake in one of my video lessons or that I’ve posted the wrong one in the virtual classroom.At that point, I would normally have to upload the new file to screencast, get the new...
Read MoreBuilding and loving your iGoogle Page
This is my current iGoogle page.Now that I’ve gone back and searched the blog, I can hardly believe I’ve never written a post about iGoogle. Wow. Perhaps that’s because in my blogging infancy, before I was...
Read MoreMore server space… moved the videos
After a Blackboard folder copy lost all of the video files and images last week, and running out of free screencast space simultaneously, I decided to just take the plunge and buy my own server space for video media on...
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