Plain English

Do you get lost when you hear terminology like RSS, Twitter, and Wiki?

Or maybe your like me and tools like Google Reader, Twitter, and Wikipedia are a part of your daily life, but you have friends and family that think you have gone crazy.

Either way, you might benefit from these plain English explanations from Common Craft……

• RSS In Plain English

• Twitter In Plain English

• Wikis In Plain English

Changes

When I joined my organization at HP 2 years ago Word, Excel, and PowerPoint were the tools of choice….with email after email tying it all together.

That is still the case today…….but things are changing.

Last week we launched the concept of a ‘project workspace’. All information for a project in 1 place. A place where the project team can collaborate as they work. Seems like a no brainer, but we didn’t have it until last week.

We recently launched a Digg-like website to collect ideas from our user base.

Today, we even had a meeting to brainstorm on how we can use a Wiki.

There are some people in our organization that have decided it is no longer ‘business as usual’…….and I am kind of excited to be a part of it.