Posts Tagged ‘wiki’

13 Ways of Looking at an Index Card

Ah, the lowly index card. So basic, so common, so cheap -- so useful. Index cards are one of the most versatile parts of the productive person's toolkit -- small enough to travel anywhere, cheap enough to keep hundreds or even thousands on hand at all times, and basic enough that one never hesitates to mark up, scribble on, cut up, or otherwise torture them. The number of uses for index… Continue reading

April 10 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, habit, index-card, photography, task management, tickler-file, wiki | 16 comments»

The Quick & Dirty Guide to Personal Wikis

Personal wikis were a big fad for productivity geeks for a while, but that seems to have toned down a lot through 2008. Wikis are still incredibly useful, and can make you more productive. You can think of a personal wiki like a bit of a catch-all binder. Whether you want to manage personal information, use it as a freelance web-worker, or to manage your corporate work, this article will introduce… Continue reading

July 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: information management, wiki | 18 comments»

20 References That Aren’t Wikipedia

I find Wikipedia to be a great starting point for online research, but you can't really use it in your writing. Scholastici.us has 20 other suggestions that you could actually reference legitimately. Encylopedia Britannica - I know it seems awfully “old school” but this site is an excellent source of information and much more authoritative than Wikipedia. What are you suggestions? Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can’t Do

September 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: research, website, wiki | 3 comments»

Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking

It's back to school time, and it's time to make good on the promises you made yourself last year to be more organized this time around! One of the stumbling blocks I see most often in my students is taking -- and keeping -- good notes for their classes. Ideally, you'd like to have notes on all your reading, as well as notes from lectures, and you'd like… Continue reading

August 22 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: notes, notetaking, students, study, studying, tool, web, web2.0, webtools, wiki | 42 comments»

The lifehack.org User’s Guide

With the rise of RSS, website content is increasingly found far afield from the websites where it originates. And there's nothing wrong with that -- RSS away! But for those of you who read lifehack.org's post in your feed reader, as well as those of you new to lifehack.org or longtime readers who might not have had a chance to look around the site much, I thought I'd take… Continue reading

August 13 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: community, forum, howto, lifehack.org, Podcast, Productivity, site, wiki | 2 comments»

9 New Things To Do With Wikipedia

I'm a big Wikipedia fan. The number of times I've said, "Just Wiki it" is ridiculous. It's practically a bet settler for me and almost always comes up with great information. Ilya Lichtenstein suggests 9 other uses for The free online encyclopedia. In some parts of the world you can't reference Wikipedia for essays, but that doesn't mean you can't use it. Cliffs Notes Replacement. Don’t want to read that weighty… Continue reading

July 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: wiki | 6 comments»

5 Uses for a Wiki at Work

Wikis are very useful for organizing information between groups of people. If you want a really good, quick, "get up to speed" tutorial on wikis, watch this movie by Common Craft. The thing is, once you're sold on this, you've gotta determine when and why to use a wiki in your workplace? What value can they bring? How will you engage your team? Here are some thoughts: Operations… Continue reading

June 5 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: commoncraft, Communication, howto, software, wiki | 28 comments»

Wikify Your Life: How to Organize Everything

In our lives we have all kinds of information that we need to keep track of -- to-do lists, gift ideas, books we want to read, exercise or food logs, a budget, phone numbers, a weekly schedule, our goals -- the list is endless. The problem is finding a good place to keep all of that information -- the usual mode is to have these lists and logs and… Continue reading

May 2 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: gtd, organization, Productivity, software, wiki | 36 comments»

Right Tool Right Job- Social Media

I had this idea that I bet Leon and the others can riff on. Basically: there are plenty of tools out there for lots of aspects of life. Let's make sure we propose the proper tool (or our take on a good tool) for the right job. From managing our tasks and priorities to determining how best to engage our communities, let's all start looking around for the right tools… Continue reading

April 9 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: blogs, flickr, howto, network2, pbwiki, podcamp, socialmedia, software, twitter, web2.0, webapps, wiki, wordpress | 9 comments»

Find unbiased product reviews with ProductWiki

ProductWiki is a wiki (duh!) that lets users add unbiased reviews of various consumer products. The aim of ProductWiki is to have detailed, exhaustive, "straight from the consumer" reviews of consumer goods. The premise behind the site is exciting and the site is filled with many excellent reviews. ProductWiki is a web-based product information resource, written by real people from all around the world. We're a wiki… Continue reading

March 27 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Money, products, review, wiki | no comments»

Group Planning Tools

I read a great article in Beth's Blog about tools for collaboration and note taking for conferences and non-profits. It struck a note, especially since it called out my event. For PodCamp Boston, we're using PBWiki as our organization tool. We're using it for information delivery (tricky, so we launched a blog to go with it), as our registration tool, our promotional data repository, scheduling, ledger… Continue reading

August 25 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: 37signals, backpack, event, eventplanning, pbwiki, software, wiki | 3 comments»

6 Ways to Use a Wiki

You know how it goes: everyone around you gets all giddy about a new technology, so you go and check it out. Sure, you admit that it looks and feels neat, but then you think, "Well, what will I do with it? I felt that way for a long time about wikis. The reason was that the most popular wiki out there is Wikipedia. (If you're not clear on the… Continue reading

July 7 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: howto, pbwiki, wiki | 13 comments»

Wikis and Blogs Transforming Workflow

Sometimes email and standard content management system may decrease your employees productivity because the amount of time on organizing and managing information are usually high. Especially when you require a collboration tool, this is where email fall apart. Paul Wormeli, executive director of the Ashburn, Va.-based Integrated Justice Information System (IJIS) Institute suggested tools like blog will help on collaboration like editing and commenting drafts: ...Wormeli said he implemented an internal… Continue reading

May 19 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: blog, Communication, email, wiki | no comments»

Wiki as an enterprise collboration tool

Joel A. Farrell from IBM has a great article on wiki can be an useful tool for groups to get work done faster. He describes the differences between document management system, and editable wiki how those works within the enterprise settings: ...Wikis are simple, both to use and to set up. The original goal was to make the creation of Web pages significantly easier than coding HTML. But, wikis are also… Continue reading

April 19 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: software, wiki | 1 comment»

iPod Shuffle + Firefox + GTDTiddlywiki

Over at minzemac.com, the blogger introduces his method of using his iPod Shuffle as GTD system, by installing Portable Firefox and GTDTiddlyWiki. After that, he can go to any computer to access his task list - Mac or PC, as the portable firefox is compatiable with both. iPod Shuffle can also save other files and of course music. Best of all it is small, so it is a pretty… Continue reading

September 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, ipod, portable, software, wiki | no comments»