Category Archives: Cool Tools

Post Crossing - Another Web2.0 applicaPersonal Notes for Company

A friend pointed me to the postcrossing service the other day.

I love the idea of this service.  I have many international friends and love to travel.  When I am unable to enjoy these interests, receiving little random notes from around the world sounds like an interesting substitute.
I think this is yet another idea that could [...]

The Robots are coming!

Robot are coming!

Sphere: Related Content

I only understand 10% of the words in this sales pitch. Okay, 8%.

One of the best facilitation tools in my toolbox relates to the anti-brainstorming. Here’s how it works:

Get your group to focus on what your product / process / thing would look like if it were completely broken.
Do this exercise out loud and be stunned at the high energy of the participants.
Control the energy [...]

Virtue Map - How do you and your company rate?

I recently read a summarization of Aristotle’s points of virtue. As someone who studied both business and philosophy in college, I find it interesting that the concept of virtue is a best an individual concern. Aristotle defines virtues in reference to their excess. As IT professional I can relate [...]

Tool Review: JobFox

While I am thinking “outside the box” on my current job search, I am also a closet compulsive when it comes to playing around with anything web 2.0. In as much as the web 2.0 things I check out also support my job searching activities, then I will highlight them in this blog. [...]