Mar 09, 2009

The Mindjet Blog Affinity diagrams, also known as the KJ method, places large amounts of disorganized information and data into groupings based on natural relationships. This method was created by Japanese anthropologist Jiro Kawakita (KJ) in the 1960s and is still commonly used within brainstorming sessions, project management, and six sig (Read More)

Mar 11, 2009

Twitter / ajwilcox ajwilcox: A web site version of my mind mapping and software for business presentation http://twurl.nl/7wsfwh. (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

The Mindjet Blog Last week’s ‘Getting Things Done’ conference (day 1 / day 2) was packed with some great insights and even better people! There’s a natural synergy between mind mapping and productivity which led to many great conversations with everyone from professional organizers to retired generals, famous authors and journalists to IT (Read More)

Mar 12, 2009

Submitted by Debrasimpson from blog: My good friends at Square Martini Media wrote a great post on using Linkedin for business.Here are their 7 Top Reasons Linkedin is a Must Have For Your Business.You can also learn a lot about Linkedin by going to YouTube and searching for Linkedin videos.If you’re on Linkedin, post your Linkedin profile link in the [...] (Read More)

Mar 24, 2009

Submitted by Natalia Corres: How To Be Productive With twitter In Just 60 Minutes A Week If you’re getting used to twitter the good news is it doesn’t have to take more than 12 minutes a day to get valuable results from this excellent networking, news source, and marketing tool: twitter doesn’t have to be a time gobbling monster. A number of LinkedIn p (Read More)

Feb 25, 2009

Altova Developer Connection News In addition to being tremendously useful, some of the new features in XMLSpy 2009 are just plain cool. The complete list of new functionality includes: Support for XBRL 2.1 and XBRL Dimensions 1.0. (Read More)

Feb 26, 2009

Planet XML A recent conversation had me thinking again about what I vieware the required practices that have to be implemented in order tostart gaining the benefits Agile can provide. I had addressed thisback in 2006 when I presented Agile XML Schema Development at the XML 2006 Conference. Thepaper and presentation are available from (Read More)

Mar 17, 2009

Planet XML It's official XSL Tools has graduated from Incubator status, and isofficially part of the Web Tools Platform Source Editing project. Iwant to personally thank the XML and Eclipse community for theirsupport, and bug/enhancement support. The one thing I will sayabout this project, is that it shows what a few driven communitym (Read More)

Mar 23, 2009

TechCrunch Exploding term sheets are nasty. If you don’t know what they are, it’s a fairly literal definition. Someone gives you a term sheet to invest in or acquire your company (or some other transaction), but they put an expiration date into the term sheet and if you don’t accept by that date, the offer explodes. Investor Y Combina (Read More)

Mar 22, 2009

Louis Gray - FriendFeed I have been writing a lot about Twitter and Facebook lately. This is because I have started to see some trends in the way people are using the sites, and Facebook has been in the news lately. Sometimes, you write a post that makes a lot of sense, like my Twitter data mine post, and just a few short weeks later realize somet (Read More)

Mar 20, 2009

Digg rickjafo Since its creation, Twitter has both stayed the same and experienced evolutionary changes. The premise hasn’t changed, but what it means to people and how they use it have changed dramatically up until now. While more uses will certainly pop up, for now, everyone can be classified as having one or more of the followin (Read More)

Mar 21, 2009

louisgray.com The current generation of Web users is sharing more than ever online - in ways my parent's generation would visibly flinch over. They are sharing their locations, their relationships, their personal photos, and their thoughts in real time. They are posting their updates to Facebook, to Twitter, and to MySpace, as they move (Read More)

Mar 21, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider Google's top designer Doug Bouwman quit the company to join Twitter. Mostly, Doug didn't like how much Google depends on data to make design decisions. He's written a blog post to explain more fully. It's not "sugarcoated," as they say:When I joined Google as its first visual designer, the company was already seven years ol (Read More)

Mar 21, 2009

Six Revisions : Web Development and Design I’ve seen a few Twitter designer lists pop up here and there and wanted to offer a fresh spin on things. This list contains 16 designers who I find extremely friendly, genuine, and have something to offer to the design community.In one word, the people on this list can be considered "authentic." They are real, down-to-ea (Read More)

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