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Exobrain. Wikimindmap - Mindmap Mapping. 100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration (Part 1) by Ozge Karaoglu. 0 Comments January 5, 2010 By: Tech Learning Blog Staff Jan 5 Written by: 1/5/2010 8:48 AM ShareThis "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration (Part 1) by Ozge Karaoglu

" “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. " It is easy to collaborate with your colleagues around you. DabbleBoard is a whiteboard that enables you to visualize, explore and collaborate. CoSketch is another whiteboard that you can collaborate to visualize your ideas and share them as images. Stixy lets you create online bulletin board to collaborate with family, friends, colleagues.

Grou.ps lets you create your own social network. I'm sure many of us are a member of a Ning group and Ning is the one of the best sites to create and join new social networks that interest us. ImaginationCubed is a multi user drawing tool. If you are using Twitter, you may want to try GroupTweet. Wallwisher is an online notice board maker.

(You can read this post on my blog.) 16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend. (It’s actually up to 18 now.)

16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend

A number of designers have attempted to design a visual, infographic resume, and while this is certainly not mainstream (yet), it is gaining some momentum. I wanted to highlight some of the great examples available on the web, but the line between an infographic resume and a designer resume is tough not to cross. I’ve tried to stay true to only infographic versions here, and didn’t include many good illustrated resumes that didn’t include any visualizations. Michael Anderson’s 2008 concept on an infographic resume (above) is probably the most well known. It’s been tweeted, dugg, reddit-ed and featured on FastCompany.com. I decided to update my résumé with a different perspective on the typical time-line theme.

I do agree it’s more of an overview and less of a project-experience-oriented resume, but I’ve been thinking a lot about (and looking at) resumes lately, and I feel like what you really need to do is grasp someone’s attention first. Randy. My Maps - SpiderScribe.net. Flowcharting. Flowcharting is a tool for analysing processes.

Flowcharting

It allows you to break any process down into individual events or activities and to display these in shorthand form showing the logical relationships between them. Constructing flowcharts promotes better understanding of processes, and better understanding of processes is a pre-requisite for improvement. Examples of processes are “Receiving orders and entering them into the computer system” or “Converting dry-mix powder into tablet form” or “Following-up sales enquiries”.

The events which make up a process, and which appear in the flowchart, may be of any type. For example, they may be “taking a phone call”, “completing an order form”, “printing a report”, “deciding between a number of alternatives”, and so on. There are specialised applications for flowcharting (such as in computer systems design and programming, engineering, and science) which use standardised sets of symbols. Organisational activity involves many separate tasks. Online Diagram & Flowchart Software - Collaboration Tool. 37signals: Web-based collaboration apps for small business. Best Online Collaboration Tools 2012 - Robin Good...