Archive for November, 2006
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Thomas Baekdal’s idea for a bridge between Web pages and RSS feeds is a simple and good one:
WEB2RSS is a simple web application that can convert almost any normal website/page into an RSS feed.
Thus, if a site you want to watch doesn’t emit RSS (and many don’t), you should instead instead tell your RSS reader […]
Posted in GreatNews, Blogging, Amazon S3, RSS | 1 Comment »
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Kami Huyse gives an overview of her most popular articles about blogging in dialing_8_kami; I particularly liked 7-habits-of-highly-effective-blogs
Thanks Kami.
Posted in Blogsite, Blogging, Social Media | No Comments »
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Canadian corporations need to experiment with Social Media technologies such as blogs and wikis.
Twopointouch: reports in Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Britain :
A new UK report into customer engagement produced by e-consultancy reveals that UK firms are likely to significantly deepen their commitment to Web 2.0 technologies over coming months. […]
Posted in Innovation, Blogging, Canadian Competitiveness, km2006 | 1 Comment »
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Following % breakdown of RSS Reader by use. Zoundry to post I learnt that GreatNews and Zoundry can be configured to work together. Finally I found Lee Hopkin’s advice on using-greatnews-and-zoundry-together which slows you down to actually read the Options | Configure Blog Tool | Tool Details, selecting “Generic External Blog Tool” instead of “Generic” […]
Posted in Blogsite, GreatNews, Windows Software | No Comments »
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Stuart Brown runs through in whos-using-what-for-rss the following chart outlining how people are reading their RSS newsfeed:
Personally I use a combination of Bloglines and GreatNews for reading, plus Zoundry for writing.
Will Humes provides another comprehensive review and says:
GreatNews is a very fast reader. You can scan thru articles quickly, and you have a choice […]
Posted in Blogsite, GreatNews, RSS, Windows Software | 5 Comments »
Friday, November 24th, 2006
I often fly with ZoomAirlines. They are not listed on sites like Expedia and don’t offer frequent flyer points, but are comfortable, convenient and cost-effective.
Book before December 7th… it’s a great way to get away during Toronto’s ice age.
“Fares are one way on select Jan. & Feb. departures/returns, when return ticket is purchased.“
www.flyzoom.com
Posted in Toronto | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 24th, 2006
Although I read it today, Lorelle’s recent reminder to backup your blog occurred the very same day Rob inadvertently wiped out all his postings.
Most hosting plans include backup service, and have a means to restore a past snapshot. The plans will vary by how accessible that snapshot is (is it automated or do you have […]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Backup | No Comments »
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Update for: Martin Cleaver, masterfully. » Blog Archive » Amazon S3 + JungleDisk + IBID + Windows + …
SmartSyncPro requires a local drive (like f:) in order to do a incremental backup. It can JungleDrive provides mapping as an http: address (like http://localhost:2667/). They don’t sit nicely together.
Posted in Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Open Source, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Windows Software | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
In one time goodwill gesture, Ryan comments on Canada’s extortionate anti-competitive corporate culture.
So, when I call to say “Hey you guys missed something” I don’t expect to be informed that YOU’RE doing ME a favour by fixing your own mistake.
I’m from the UK, and “let me tell you”, (in a stern voice), few Canadian […]
Posted in Innovation, Government Deregulation, Canadian Immigration, Culture | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Blogging is a high touch, low cost way of developing contacts and maintaining networks. Does it change the nature of sales? I think so. I think it alters the norm from transactional to relationship based.
As I recently commented to a client in an email:
On a blog, anyone can read what you write: your market moves […]
Posted in Collaboration, wordpress, Wiki, Blogsite, Melbourne Business Scool, Rotman, Melbourne, Toronto, Marketing, MBA | No Comments »