practical & productive networking tools

A friend of mine who is a k-12 art teacher asked about getting started with social networking. She does a little blogging here and there, but she is knee deep in teaching at the moment, which limits her time online. I thought for a bit about how to respond to her question.

practical & productive networking tools

A friend of mine who is a k-12 art teacher asked about getting started with social networking. She does a little blogging here and there, but she is knee deep in teaching at the moment, which limits her time online. I thought for a bit about how to respond to her question.

Speed up your website!

For those of you who create websites, here is an interesting article about speeding up websites (and a free little tool, too!):
ySlow a firebug/firefox plug-in: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Most of the rules revolve around making sure the browser doesn't haveto work too hard to load and display your Web pages, particularly bymaking maximum use of the browser cache.

Speed up your website!

For those of you who create websites, here is an interesting article about speeding up websites (and a free little tool, too!):
ySlow a firebug/firefox plug-in: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Most of the rules revolve around making sure the browser doesn't haveto work too hard to load and display your Web pages, particularly bymaking maximum use of the browser cache.

web 2.0 the bubble

In the course of doing a little research for a brief article on social networking for visual artists, I found a lot of new services and of course, what seems to be a lot more discussion about the potential Web 2.0/social networking bubble (perhaps, it is just cumulative effect).Will it happen? Oh sure, at some point....

web 2.0 the bubble

In the course of doing a little research for a brief article on social networking for visual artists, I found a lot of new services and of course, what seems to be a lot more discussion about the potential Web 2.0/social networking bubble (perhaps, it is just cumulative effect).Will it happen? Oh sure, at some point....

need an invite?

So, with all the various invite stuff (Yahoo's new social networking service, mash), pownce, etc. if you didn't receive an invite, you probably get tired of trying to figure out which one of your technie friends received an invite, so you could go bug them, right?Well, here is your answer.Inviteshare

need an invite?

So, with all the various invite stuff (Yahoo's new social networking service, mash), pownce, etc. if you didn't receive an invite, you probably get tired of trying to figure out which one of your technie friends received an invite, so you could go bug them, right?Well, here is your answer.Inviteshare
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