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How to Delegate to Save Time

Posted in Productivity
If your position in an organization—either paid or unpaid—makes you responsible for a team, you may be able to delegate projects and work to others. By effective delegation, you communicate to your team members that you have confidence in their ability to complete a job or project. As you delegate more frequently, you [...]

Google Notebook Goes Mobile

Picked up this nugget of information from Steve Rubel’s Twitter. Google Notebook is now available in a mobile version. You can create notes in the mobile version and they’re posted in a Notebook called Mobile notes, but you can’t edit notes from your phone or place them in another notebook.

YouTube Canada Launches

In developing territory-specific YouTube sites, we wanted to bring YouTube to you, in your language, while making local talent more visible and getting closer to our users around the world. So please get typing or pick up that video camera: tell us what our strengths are, draw our attention to any weaknesses, and give us [...]

Google Docs now does presentations

Google said they would be adding a presentation function to Google Docs this summer. With only a couple of days to spare, they’ve met their promise.
Just like Google documents and spreadsheets, presentations are stored securely online, so you can access them from anywhere using only a web browser. Working together with one or more people [...]

Survey of web-based mind mapping tools

Chuck Frey has put together a short survey on web-based mind mapping tools. If you use, or have played around with, some of these web-based tools, click the link below and complete the short 11–question survey.
* Which tool offers the best functionality?* What features matter most to you?* What are the biggest benefits of web-based [...]

NoteSake - Online Note-Taking Tool for Students

A social note-taking site aimed at students. Students can take their hastily scribbled class notes and transfer them into an organized form for personal use, or to share with a study group.
With NoteSake, you can take your notes during class, share them with a friend, or groups can work together on the same note, all [...]

Best4c -Best for chart- online diagram tool beta

My wife and I are giving some thought to remodelling our kitchen. As we’re discovering, a lot of planning and organizing goes into such a project. One of the key elements is deciding what layout we would like, working with the space we have.
I’ve been playing around with several diagramming tools, both on-line and desktop [...]

Bits and Pieces - August 24

Does the Internet Really Increase your Productivity? – Relatively speaking, the Internet has not been around all that long, but this has become the question to debate.
3 Tips for Embracing Analog Productivity – Another great debate: analogue versus digital. In this case, analogue and digital.
Notely : Student Organisation Made Easy – A collection of online tools [...]

Mindomo News

Mindomo continues to add and upgrade features to its powerful on-line mind mapping tool. Today’s announcement:
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We are happy to announce that today we have deployed a major update of Mindomo. We have redesigned our ribbon bar in order to comply with the Microsoft® Office Fluent UI design [...]

Facebook fun with Google

I don’t know about you, but I get a little tired of the inflexible “Ian is” format of my Facebook status updates. I’d much rather see something along the lines of Twitter, where I could put a short message any way I wanted; within the limits of a certain number of characters.
In the meantime, I’ve [...]