Here my new media predictions for 2009: what to expect when it comes to new media, professional web publishing and learning, collaboration and social media? Find out everything I see coming across these key areas in this two-part report opening today. Photo credit: Giancarlo Mazzaro - 7th Floor I ha...

Are you looking for an effective way to collaborate and organize ideas with other people? If you\'re still into voice and text chat, you might want to give mind mapping a try. Mind mapping is a cool way to share your ideas in total freedom, without the need to follow a structured approach, but just ...

Chris Brogan is a maven when it comes to social media. He is one of the new rising stars of the independent, small media publishing world. On who has really gone out of his way to evangelize, share, listen and give out tons of great advice of what social media is and how it can be best used. Photo c...

If you are looking to find an effective way to collaborate, brainstorm, visualize and plan ideas collaboratively online, much beyond what voice and text chat can do, it is the time you give a good try to the mind-mapping experience. A roles and responsibilities mindmap collaborative mindmap created ...

Ready to communicate visually with new cool tools and web services? This time I have selected for you some tools to edit any of your digital pictures online, as well as services to create slideshows with voice narration, search and download videos from YouTube, and also one cool service to find some...

What is social design? What are the traits that make designing for the social interaction different from other forms of design? What are the end results that one wants to achieve by using a social design approach and methodology? Photo credit: Joshua Porter Joshua Porter, social media analyst and we...

With the advent of Web 2.0 and the explosion in the number of web-based services that has ensued, we have seen hundreds of new applications and tools become available without any sign of slowdown yet. Thanks to cheaper technology, open APIs, and the ease with which today\'s coders can put together w...

Ready to communicate visually with new cool tools and web services? Here\'s my visual communication and video publishing toolkit for this week. This time I have selected for you some really nifty tools to edit any of your digital pictures online, as well as services to search and create slideshows w...

What use is to write long and in-depth web articles if the majority of online readers go only for a few paragraphs? It all depends on what kind of audience you are talking to and whether you are going for large readership or for a small but high quality group of followers. Photo credit: 3Alexd Thoug...

Want to have an advertising media kit for your site ready and published in less than 5 minutes? In less time than it takes to explain it here, you can effectively create: 1) a professionally-looking advertising media kit page, as well as 2) a media-kit widget you can easily embed on your Web site an...