Product Planner Maps Flows

Create a flow to help visually facilitate an online task with Product Planner. The website says, “Product Planner was born out of the need to help people understand and create user flows for their web products. The idea is that by looking at examples of other successful web products, you can get a better idea of how to create your own.” This website collects and distributes user generated work flows by clearly listing the steps with an interactive flow chart. Some examples of the gallery of flow charts are: Gmail sign-up flow, MySpace sign-up loop, Basecamp sign-up flow or Vimeo Email Invite Flow. Is your product listed here?

http://productplanner.com/

Intillegence Group – Trends on Social Culture

The website says, “The Intelligence Group is a business investigations and intelligence firm serving corporations, technology companies and their counsel. We help protect the bottom line and reputations of our clients by providing them with the knowledge they need to make sound, informed decisions in today”s increasingly fast-paced, competitive business environment.” Not only can you hire this group for your corporate, they also produce many interesting articles on trends of social culture and cyber security.

http://www.intell-group.com/

Top Gear

Car enthusiasts if you”ve never seen Top Gear, then put on the brakes and cruise over to this website. What is Top Gear? A TV Show dedicated to cars and those who love to drive cars. The website features videos and blogs from hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. It also features behind-the-scenes info from the show and car reviews for every new car on sale. I especially enjoy all the tech talk when it comes to on-board communications and dashboard improvements.

http://www.topgear.com

Tom's Planner is Gantt Charts

Tom's Planner allows anyone to create, collaborate and share Gantt Charts online. It'”s extremely intuitive and easy-to-use and gives control back to the project manager. With drag and drop ability, the seamless online tool gives direction to any project. Right now Tom's Planner is still in its initial release so you can use it for free. I was able to create a few Gantt Chart's in a matter of minutes and they really helped communicate the status of a project. Try it today and tell us what you think!

http://www.tomsplanner.com/

MTV TJ

MTV is just hired their first Twitter Jockey (TJ). Gabi Gregg is is 23-year-old founder of a fashion blog called Young, Fat and Fabulous; she was selected by viewers across the U.S. to Tweet on MTV's behalf.

In my opinion, this marks a huge step in the world of taking social media as a viable source of communication. Back in 2000, I became one of the first Internet Jocks (IJs) at ClevelandHits.com and it signified to me that the Internet was now a viable source of communication. Twitter has been slowly rising from the shadows of Facebook as the social media communication of choice because it's just more public.

What do you think of the recent MTV TJ revolution?

http://tj.mtv.com/

Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2010

Recently, The Social Media Examiner debuted as a free online magazine dedicated solely to social media. As part of their first edition, the social media magazine broke down the top 10 social media blogs of 2010.

1. Chris Brogan
2. Social Media Explorer
3. Mashable
4. Convince & Convert
5. Altitude
6. CopyBlogger
7. Brand Builder
8. Diva Marketing
9. Kikolani
10. Future Buzz

Did your favorite make it?

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/top-10-social-media-blogs-of-2010/

Siri, Virtual Assistant

Siri is a smartphone app that pledges to take all the hassle out of life. This app is a virtual assistant finds things like restaurants, movie reviews, and new booking titles all with your voice. You really need to try this out. It”s really amazing.

http://www.yappler.com/App/168440/Siri-Assistant.aspx

Dice.com is Tech Jobs

Looking for a tech jobs? Dice.com is a job resource information technology professionals. Post your resume and take control our your career. If you an employer post your position here for the best tech talent. If you are a prospective job hunter, search for a job, read the career news and join in discussions.

http://dice.com

Optimizing a Adobe PDF

Have you scanned a PDF file, but you’re concerned about the quality or file size? Optimizing a Scanned PDF File can be done in a few easy steps.

In Adobe Acrobat Pro, follow these steps:
1. Open the document you would like to optimize.
2. Select Document from the menu bar.
3. Select Optimize Scanned PDF.
4. Set your output options. The controller at the top toggles quality and size.

New URL Shortener – Tweak

Tweak is the latest URL shortener. If you have a long address, like a Google map address, use URL shortener to send it to a friend. The question I always ask is why doesn”t Google Maps just build a URL shortener into their product?

http://www.tweak.tk/