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SlideShare Karaoke Toastmaster Table Topics Mashup

By Mark Finnern
June 5, 2009

The YouTube for slides: SlideShare has a nifty little game they call SlideShare Karaoke. You put in a keyword and it randomly selects one deck of slides for you to present. If you want to improve your presentation skills, there is no better way than going to weekly Toastmasters meetings. You can use the SlideShare Karaoke feature as the basis for Table Topics in your next Toastmaster meeting.

Google Voice Set to Transform the Phone

By Kurt Cagle
March 12, 2009

In 2007, Google acquired the Grand Central Service, a VOIP based service that let users take advantage of a single phone number that could be used to forward to other phones, to record conversations and so forth. This service has been under the radar for some time, but today Google announced the new Google Voice, a free service based upon Grand Central that will debut in the next several weeks to new users.

Webcast Video: Youth & Creativity -- Emerging Trends in Self-Expression and Publishing

By Mac Slocum
February 2, 2009

Below you'll find the full recording from the TOC webcast, "Youth & Creativity: Emerging Trends in Self-Expression and Publishing," with Julie Baher and Bill Westerman....

SOA Still Alive and Well--Sell it to the Business

By David A. Chappell
January 8, 2009

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!".

News Roundup: Digital Text App Uses Facebook, Subject/Author Sites Better than Brands, Saying Goodbye to Audiobook Cassettes

By Mac Slocum
July 31, 2008

App Mashes Up Digital Text on Facebook Platform Digital Texts 2.0 is an interesting application for Facebook that lets you group and share digital material. It's intriguing to see...

wordle with capitolwords

By Bryan Rasmussen
June 24, 2008

Capitol Words' webservices can be used to find the words that were used most in the days when Congress was in session in the year, with the count, so for example you could find out that the word surveillance was used 40 times in 2006-12-04 (obviously the count is with common English words removed), so with this data we can generate a wordle of all the words that were used most in the Congressional session of a particular year.

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