Living Without Microsoft Wiki

Following the makeover that Living Without Microsoft has recently been given – and the upturn in activity that the site has seen as a result – I’ve been beavering away on WikiSpaces putting together a wiki for resources on how people can get away from using Microsoft’s products. You can find it at http://lwm.wikispaces.com. If you’ve … Keep reading

Free as in Beer

Since I started Free as in Beer, I’ve come across a few of apps which have become essential: Evernote Zulupad Launchy If anyone who reads this blog has some favourite freebies, let me know! Tags: freeasinbeer

Google Groups as Community Platform?

I mentioned Ning a few posts ago, and in the comments Steve Dale pondered whether it could be used to power a virtual community of practice – ie, would it work as a knowledge sharing and collaboration tool? I thought not, largely because while Ning makes sharing photos and videos a dream, making other material … Keep reading

Contactify

Contactify is a great little service which gets around the old problem of putting your email address on a web page. How it works is this: you register and provide your details, and Contactify provides you with a URL which you can link to for people to contact you. It presents a standard form, with … Keep reading

Blogging Tip #2 – Use tools you like and trust

Second on my list of tips was to make sure you are using the systems that suit how you work. What sort of things am I talking about? How do you blog? A blog is of course just a website, and you could write your blog by updating some HTML pages by hand. Some people … Keep reading