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No Excuses: Robots Put You In Two Places At Once : NPR

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:06:23 +0000

One of Anybots’ telerobots costs about $15,000, which, he points out, is about the cost of one overseas trip.

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sprint.ly – Make beautiful products.

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:08:35 +0000

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Grove.io – Hosted IRC and so much more

Brent Sordyl — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:20:44 +0000

Get your own private IRC server in minutes.

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OPEN – a tool for teachers to create and share lessons with their studenrs

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:45:27 +0000

OPEN, a free tool used by teachers to create digital lessons for their own students. Instead of learning content in the classroom, students will take lessons created by their own teacher at home and spend the class period working on homework-style problems.

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OPEN – a tool for teachers to create and share lessons with their studenrs

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:29:55 +0000

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Email Charter

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:53:10 +0000

1. Respect Recipients’ Time 2. Short or Slow is not Rude 3. Celebrate Clarity 4. Quash Open-Ended Questions 5. Slash Surplus cc’s 6. Tighten the Thread 7. Attack Attachments 8. Give these Gifts: EOM NNTR 9. Cut Contentless Responses 10. Disconnect!

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Meetin.gs – Easy Scheduling, Writing an Agenda, Sharing Notes, Virtual Conferencing, and Online Collaboration

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:04:34 +0000

Meetin.gs is a new approach to organize meetings online. It lets you create agendas, share notes and materials, and integrates with a number of different web services. That means people actually know what is going on when they go to meetings.

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Chatbox – Project collaboration inside Dropbox

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:08:26 +0000

Chatbox makes it easy to discuss or comment on files shared over Dropbox. Install it, right click on any files / folders inside Dropbox, and start conversations with people you shared the Dropbox folder with.

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Solo – project management for the modern freelancer

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:37:28 +0000

Solo, the project management tool for the modern freelancer.We’re designers and we’ve loved making Solo.

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Jive software customer survey on the state of Collaboration tool market

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:56:50 +0000

Jive claim their software has stimulated these Employee Engagement Benefits:
• 39 percent increase in employee connectedness;• 32 percent more ideas generated and captured;• 30 percent in employee satisfaction;• 27 percent less email;• 32 percent reduction in time to find answers; and• 37 percent increase in project collaboration and productivity.

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