new internet organization

Through my del.icio.us account I ran across this article 5 Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have. I thought 2 of them sounded pretty cool so I’m trying them out. I’m always game for trying something new on the internet! Well, this is more just new to me rather than actually new. I also spent some time organizing the things I already use.

1. The author suggested that having a multi-service IM can make communication a lot easier, so I added Adium. Now I can begin developing my IM address book. I only have a few friends who chat- but it will be nice to have this set up in case I ever need it. I also LOVE the little green bird- soo cute!

2. A startpage to organize what’s important. I added Netvibes and will try it out for a while. I added all of my RSS feeds and some other odds and ends. I really love Google Reader and want to see if this will work as well. One thing that I do like is that I have separate tabs in netvibes for certain things. One tab for general things (weather, to-do list, twitter, news) one for theatre related feeds, and one for education related feeds. I bet I could create categories in Google reader- but I just never felt like I needed to- but in netvibes it just seemed too cluttered without it.

Other than that I use Entourage for my email and when firefox starts up I have tabs open to the netvibes page, facebook, and wordpress. I also have some other important sites in my bookmark toolbar for easy access (bank, school, ect)

I also use the bookmarking site Diigo which is feeding directly to my del.icio.us account because I still haven’t made enough contacts on Diigo to make it worth abandoning the del.icio.us. I am also a little frustrated that I cannot find more theatre friends on these sites- it seems that everyone on these sites is just interested in telling people to use those kinds of sites. Funny huh?

But, anyway, yay for me and my new internet organization!

~ by jenadamz on May 12, 2008.