Infographic creation tools from Visual.li are now available. YAY! I love infographics but struggle to create my own custom graphics. Now I can get a lot of help from the folks at Visual.li. In addition to the example below you can now create custom infographics about your favorite hashtag, your Facebook timeline and a whole lot…
Category: technology
Marshall McLuhan – The World is a Global Village (CBC TV)
This classic McLuhan clip predicted so much of what we’re seeing now. McLuhan enters the video at the 2:45 minute mark and suggests that there is a difference between book readers and those who were at that time embracing the “new” media of radio, television and movies. He uses the term being “with it”. He…
Business Blogging 101
Last night I went to a great local, business focused, Meetup to see what the presenter Owen Clark of ByzHub fame had to say about creating blog content. The title of the presentation was How to Create 60 Days of Content in 60 Minutes and as someone who has multiple blogs this seemed like a great way to…
Customer Relations, Twitter and Warm Fuzzies
I just had the best phone call from my cell phone carrier, Fido. I’ve been with them for years and although no relationship is perfect, for the most part I’ve been pretty happy with their service. For the past few days I’ve been ignoring their calls though. I’ve been busy and just didn’t want to…
Top 10 List of Tools for Learning – 2011
Jane Hart is in her fifth year of coordinating what is possible the best list of tools used for learning. The emerging list is amazing. This is my list of tools that I find the most value in. Some I value because I learn so much by using the tool and some because I have…
Google Search Story Creator
This is quite brilliant, fun and quick.. which means many, many people and companies will use it. I suspect the glow will wear thin for corporate use after a bit but should prove more long wearing in education and just plain fun. I can see a marriage proposal or two being done using this.. I…