It's often been said that we have so much information available to us these days that we are overloaded. So many emails to read, so much on the web, TV, radio, press, magazines, whatever. And I far prefer to go somewhere a friend has recommended as good for information, rather than hope that my selection of key search phrases on Google gets me there.
And with that in mind, these are the main items in my current web-toolbox.
www.mindtools.com
A treasure-trove of easy to digest information about business, management, and self-enhancement. Subscribe for free to the newsletters.
http://blogs.hbr.org.
Recommended by one of my colleagues on the Poyry Business Academy, it's like the business pages of your favourite paper, but better.
http://msdn.microsoft.com.
For all your detailed queries on things microsofty, especially programming and development.
For news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk, obviously
http://www.facebook.com for news particular to me.
http://www.linkedin.com for news particular to my business side
http://www.irishtimes.com (or whatever your "quality newspaper" is). Read it as a student at home in Ireland as they had a clever policy of charging less than a tabloid to buy it in college, hoping to get you hooked. Now reading on the ipod touch!
http://www.dilbert.com, etc. because it's not all work.
And how do I keep track of the useful articles, information, advice etc? I can't keep it all in my head, so I use Microsoft OneNote (which is part of the licenses from Microsoft for Office Professional Plus) and send the relevant pages into the notebook, straight from Internet Explorer with a single button click. It's searchable, and shareable, so that the information can be gathered and shared within teams or elsewhere. Probably the best new programme from Microsoft in decades, but not too many folk seem to know about it. Ask your IT people why you haven't got it on your desk. And if you have, try it!
What would you recommend to me?
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