Month: August 2008

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-08-18

  • Michael Storrings will sign his new book A Very New York Christmas tomorrow at the NY International Gift Show http://tinyurl.com/5cvbo3 #
  • Attending Captivate training at New Horizons on W. 42nd St. #
  • Their facility is underground, so I have no phone service. Not fun. #
  • On top of everything else, I am taking an online course for NYU Epsilen preparation, Introduction to Online Course Preparation. #
  • @gminks Yes, especially now that we are 18 minutes late beginning today. #
  • Finally, beginning. #
  • I have played around wtih Captivate before, though I am new to C3. #
  • Getting hungry. I smell food and coffee. #
  • Grabbing a Starbucks in our break. #
  • Captivate 3 seems more straight-forward than earlier versions. Adobe has come a long way. #
  • @betsyweber Waiting for the NY Meetup! #
  • Ate a wonderful salad at lunch in Times Square. Pricy, but very good. #
  • @betsyweber How can there not be some pressing business need??!! #
  • @howardgr Enjoy your time off. Hope it is for vacation, Howard. #
  • Wrapping up Captivate 3 training. Seems easier to use than I remember. Now I am wondering if work will order us copies of it. #
  • Attending the #FOC08 teleconfererence for our online course http://tinyurl.com/6kxfgd #
  • People are from all over the world on the call. Wonderful sense of global community. #
  • #FOC08 has live participants in Peru, Brunei, Vancouver, New Zealand, New York, Texas, Argentina, and elsewhere. Truly global! #

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Facilitating Online Communities Global Call

I just attended the Facilitating Online Communities online course conference call. We were from Peru, Vancouver, New Zealand, Texas, Argentina, New York, Brunei, and elsewhere. Wow! What a global perspective to discuss some of the issues around communities. This was the first time I was able to attend one of our calls,

I am increasingly interested in the issues in and around technology, especially how the technological capacity, abilities, costs, and limitations can tend to direct how online communities communicate and develop.

There was some discussion about the mini online conference during weeks 12 and 13. Leigh Blackall mentioned some options for online community development, facilitation, and almost anything interesting around the idea of facilitating online communities. We should begin to consider topics of various interest, and it was suggested we group up and do a variety of online events:

In these two weeks you will focus on your event that you are facilitating as part of the course mini conference. The idea is for you to organize something for the conference, such as a guest speaker or a discussion panel through web conference; a discussion forum on a social networking platform; or assisting with the preparation and promotion of the mini conference generally. This will be your chance to facilitate real events and communication online, and explore more dimensions to facilitating online communities. 

I wonder if Sylvia Currie has an idea for us to work on? More about that soon enough . . .

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-08-17

  • @gminks I have been for some time now. #
  • Have been teaching Business Communication all day today. The summer intensives meet on weekends as well. #
  • Long day teaching about to come to an end. #
  • @gminks I use FeedDemon from Newsgator. Love the program! #
  • Katie Holmes is in Bonpoint on Bleecker St. right now. Big crowd of people are outside taking photos and disrupting traffic. #

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Keyboard Commands to Switch Tabs in IE7 & Firefox

I have used <Alt>+<Tab> for years as the shortcut to quickly switch between open application windows on my computer. As I work on a lot at once, this is a very handy friend to have around.

Frustrated that this does not help me switch between tabs in the newest version of Internet Explorer, I finally went to work to find how to do this, and located the answer I have been yearning for at Online Tech Tips.

The shortcut? <Ctrl>+<Tab>

Yes, it it that simple! Use <Ctrl>+<Tab> to switch between open tabs in Internet Explorer and Firefox, and then <Alt>+<Tab> to switch between open programs.

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-08-16

  • Need to catch up with laundry and paperwork and class preparation today. #
  • Just got the final review copies of oline learning books I need to look at for the online instruction class I am planning to teach. #
  • @RobinYap Sounds like fun for you. #
  • Shopped at Whole Foods this afternoon. I really like that store. #
  • Pricing stock images for a consulting project. #
  • Just got a great fortune: Every person is the architect of his own fortune. #

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