A couple of months back I started logging and tracking my work via Twitter. Today I found a new Twitter client that works much better for me on my Mac than Spaz. If you use Twitter from a Mac, check out:
Do you have any other Twitter tips that help you?
I read almost all of my news and blog content via Google Reader. And now with a newer feature in Google Reader, I’ve started sharing news that I think others might like. So, rather than pasting content from other blogs or news sites, I simply add them to my shared news feed.
If you share any similar interests with me, you might find that subscribing to my shared news feed is useful:
Let me know if you find this useful.
I know many people are still mystified by why web sites are offering RSS feeds. Many of my friends still seem to think RSS feeds are only for geeks (like me). Not true! Here’s a short video in plain English that explains the power of RSS feeds.
Are you using an RSS Feed Reader? If so, what do you use?
OK, I mentioned Yahoo Pipes back a few months ago, but never had really created anything with it till yesterday. I was trying to figure out how to sort, combine, and limit the number of items in some existing RSS feeds I manage. Enter Yahoo Pipes.
Pipes lets you do some powerful things with RSS feeds and other web content.
Check out my first three pipes:
This seems very powerful. I want to see about creating some other custom feeds from various sources.
This article on using cell phones as plane tickets got me thinking. Would it be useful to allow parents to somehow use their cell phones to check-in their children to kids programs at church?
Could a parent send an SMS message to the church as they’re arriving to somehow speed up or simplify the process? When they show up at the check-in area, the volunteers or whatever could have preprinted name tags and labels for the kid.
Then that same cell phone could be used as a contact method for the parent in an emergency. If a parent needs to be contacted, why not send a text message to the parent’s cell phone that they registered the child with?
It’d take some work to make it easy, but why not consider it? Doesn’t most everyone carry a cell phone anyway?
What do you think?