OK I said I’d talk a little about some Web 2.0 tools, such as Flickr. Flickr (www.flickr.com) is a web site where you can sign up and then save, store and edit photos online. It’s free, although you can upgrade to a professional account for $25 a year. That gives you more space for pictures … Continue reading
Category Archives: Web 2.0
Web 2.0 for Marketing
This week I spoke with Jan Hepola at a Hospitality Minnesota conference. We talked about different ways Web 2.0 applications could help promote hotels, resorts and campgrounds. Here are some of the ideas we mentioned: 1. Get a blog. I’m partial to WordPress (www.wordpress.com) 2. Don’t have time for a blog? Go with Twitter. (www.twitter.com) … Continue reading
Budget Web Site
If I had a business and wanted a cheap and easy web site – this is what I’d do… I’d buy a domain name through Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). A domain name is about $9/year and Go Daddy offers lots of features. I’d start a blog on WordPress (www.wordpress.com). You don’t need to know html. You … Continue reading
Second Life
A couple weeks ago I went to a workshop on Second Life (http://secondlife.com/). It’s “an online, 3D virtual world imagined and created by its residents.” It’s kind of like a video game. To play you have to create an avatar (online persona). To move around in Second Life you have your avatar walk or fly … Continue reading
StoryMaps
Thanks to Mary in Minneapolis for sending me info on a very fun widget (small web application) – StoryMaps: http://outside.in. In you like to look at things on the web, it’s a fun site to visit to get news from your town or neighborhood. (I learned that the Vatican is bringing artifacts to the MN … Continue reading
RSS Headline Feeds
Sometimes it’s nice to feed headlines from one web site or blog into another. For example, maybe you have a blog that you maintain pretty often and a web site that is pretty static. A quick and easy way to update that web site is to add the code on your homepage to grab headlines … Continue reading
Free Widgets
A widget is a tiny application you can post on your desktop, web site, or blog. For example I just had a client want a little weather box on the corner of their web site – not that the weather is bearable in Minnesota again. WdigetBox (http://www.widgetbox.com/) is a huge collection of free widgets. Here’s … Continue reading
WordPress Possibly Related Posts
A couple of days ago I noticed a new feature on my WordPress blogs. At the end of each post, there is now a list of “possibly related posts”. I’ll let WordPress explain it (http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/04/25/possibly-an-announcement/): In a feature we’re calling possibly related posts we’ll now try to show posts related to yours a little … Continue reading
Google Docs – Thing 9
I’m still plugging away on my 23 Things on a Stick. Thing 9 talks about online collaboration Tools such as Zoho Writer (http://writer.zoho.com/) and Google Docs (http://documents.google.com). Both tools let you save documents online and share access so that many people can help write and edit a document. In fact you can all look … Continue reading
Online Presentation Tools – Thing 8
Today I’m working away on the 23 Things on a Stick I mentioned a few weeks ago (https://byteoftheweek.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/23-things-on-a-stick/). Thing 8 focuses on how to share files, including slide shows. They mention SlideShare, which I have mentioned before (https://byteoftheweek.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/slideshare-presentation-tool/). SlideShare is a great tool for posting PowerPoint slides. (I love SlideShare!) I also learned about two … Continue reading
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