Archive for July, 2006

Ancora imparo means I am still learning. It is attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). I think this is a very good maxim.
Another quote I like is this: When we stop learning we stop living. Lifelong learning is fun and keep us alert.

Bloglines is a great free service online. It is a web-based RSS-reader, you can access it from anywhere. In my opinion that is more practical than having a RSS-reader on my local computer.
Using RSS-feeds is a way to follow blogs without having to visit them all. Each post turns up in the feed, nicely collected [...]

There are several great sites that help you build and maintain professional as well as social networks. Take a look at XING (formerly openBC), LinkedIn, Ryze and ZeroDegrees.

Krissy Jackson has written a great article about the seven mistakes people make. In brief they are:

They don’t include a photo on their profile page
They don’t fill in their profile
They don’t post on group discussion boards
They do not practice the four essentials of the likeability factor
When they post they don’t put their URL into [...]