SHSC: Our Online Strategic Plan. 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer.
It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way. These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65)
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Smarter online research - annotate, organize & collaborate on web pages. HTML5-Powered Web Applications: 19 Early Adopters. HTML5, rumored as Flash killer, is a brand new web technology that raises a revolution lead by Apple in web application development.
It contains canvas element for images and animation drawings, support video and audio embedding, and includes storage database for offline web applications. Most important of all, you don’t need a plugin to get all these features, your latest browser supports that. Sounds pretty cool, but what HTML5 can do actually? Well, this post is going to satisfy your curiosity about the power of HTML5 by showing you a series of practical HTML5-powered web applications such as drawing application, chart creating application and time management application.
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There are no funny pictures of cats, comic strips, or post-election opinions in this one. It’s just good information that can help change your life if you let it. In the manifesto that has now been downloaded more than 100,000 times, I wrote about how many people have no idea what they want to get out of life. The answer to the question, “What do you really want?” Tends to trip a lot of us up. In this post I’ll help you get closer to your own answer to that question, using three different perspectives. Perspective #1: Creating Your Perfect Day In this classic exercise, you write out your idealized, perfect day in great detail, beginning from what time you get up and what you have for breakfast all the way through what you do for each hour of the day and who you talk to.
How to Conduct Your Own Annual Review. Every year since 2005, I’ve spent the better part of a week in late December planning my life for the next year.
Overall, this is probably the best decision I’ve made in terms of working towards multiple goals simultaneously. The idea is to create a road map for the year ahead—not a rigid daily schedule, but an overall outline of what matters to me and what I hope to achieve in the next year. I complete this process in bits and pieces over several days, partly because of my ADD brain but also because it helps to think about it slowly.
Some of you who have the ability to concentrate on one thing for hours at a time may prefer to do it all at once. In this essay I’ll take you step-by-step through what I do every December to help plan the next year. By the way, the kind of goal-setting I practice and advocate is vastly different from: Resolutions that are broken after January 10. The Spreadsheet Here you can download a template based on what I use to do this exercise. Starting Out Health – 1. MicromovementSheet.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Happiness Project Toolbox. Dashboard Everything.