A little personal productivity experiment here. I have a free account with jott.com, which allows me to speak into my cell phone and have my words transcribed into text messages and sent to me, other folks’ email addresses, or my blog in this case. Wanna see/hear it?
I’ve been playing around with Facebook at the urging of my friend Sherman Hu, creator of the popular WordPress Tutorials. Here’s my "Facebook for Dummies" question and Sherman’s prompt and helpful reply:
Howie’s Question: Since I joined the 2 groups you invited me to, I’ve been inundated with "friends" requests from people I don’t know. What should I do? How do I think about the social networking phenomenon so I can use it to my advantage without pretending relationships that don’t exist?
Howie Jacobson, PhD., is the author of Google AdWords For Dummies, available on every continent (except Antarctica) wherever fine books, overpriced brownies and cheesy calendars are sold.