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Our list of the new and/or undiscovered Web sites that have grabbed our attention this year. You’ll see a large collection of Web applications and tech sites, excellent blogs, offbeat social networks, and, as always, a handful of addictive Flash games for those slow days at work. Some of these sites are completely under the radar and get very little traffic. Others are hugely popular within a specific demographic. But all of them deserve to be in your bookmarks.
In October, 2003, I suggested that Web content should be written for the Web rather than tied down by the assumptions of paper and pencil. At the time, I believed that the wiki was the most powerful tool available for practical hypertext writing. Then I downloaded Tinderbox 2.1 (now it is 4.0.0), a Personal Content Management System, Tinderbox for MacOS (9 & X). It’s like no content management system I’ve ever used.
Mind Mapping is an important technique that improves the way you take notes, and supports and enhances your creative problem solving. By using Mind Maps, you can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject and the way that pieces of information fit together, as well as recording the raw facts contained in normal notes. More than this, Mind Maps provide a structure which encourages creative problem solving, and they hold information in a format that your mind will find easy to remember and quick to review.Mind Mapping is an extremely effective method of taking notes. Mind Maps show not only facts, but also the overall structure of a subject and the relative importance of individual parts of it. They help you to associate ideas and make connections that might not otherwise make. If you do any form of research or note taking, try experimenting with Mind Maps. You will find them surprisingly effective!
Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. While at first glance concept maps may appear to be just another graphic representation on information, understanding the foundations for this tool and its proper use will lead the user to see that this is truly a profound and powerful tool. It may at first look like a simple arrangement of words into a hierarchy, but when care is used in organizing the concepts represented by the words, and the propositions or ideas are formed with well-chosen linking words, one begins to see that a good concept map is at once simple, but also elegantly complex with profound meanings. Concept mapping has been shown to help learners learn, researchers create new knowledge, administrators to better structure and manage organizations, writers to write, and evaluators assess learning. Thus, we see that concept maps are not only a powerful tool for capturing, representing, and archiving knowledge of individuals, but also a powerful tool to create new knowledge.
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TheBrain is an associative information organization system-any piece of information can be linked to any other piece. The power of TheBrain lies in the flexibility of these links. You can quickly create structures of information that reflect the way you think about your information. Each item triggers related items, bringing relevant information together as you need it.
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If you remember how much time you’d spent for administering MS SQL Server database, you already know that it’s something you don’t want to do every day. Or, you want your highly qualified engineers to focus on more important things, rather than routine operations with the database, make sure you get your hands on a copy of iSetDB. It’s free demo version is available at the link below: http://www.digestmap.com/isetdb/setup.msi The $34.95 Personal edition or Developer edition will save you untold dollars in time and avoided hassles. Make a smart decision and make MS SQL Server administration simpler! Read the rest of this entry »
