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Brainstorming Online

Posted by Cathryn in : Technology , 3 comments

I’ve used interactive, online tools like Google Spreadsheets often, but I’m about to start a little exercise with a colleague and we’re looking for an online brainstorming / mindmapping tool.
I’m looking for something which :

  • is free
  • allows multiple people to access the same map at the same time across the internet
  • allows notes, sketches and links (I like to scribble as well as mindmap tidily)
  • can be rendered into a general format, such as a PDF, for printing and using elsewhere
  • simple and stable

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FOWA 2007, day two

Posted by Cathryn in : Technology , 2 comments

FOWA logoThe day starts inauspiciously with sales pitches thinly disguised as serious talks from Adobe and Microsoft.  The wifi still isn’t working and someone postulates the theory that the failure to repeat last year’s booing is down to the lack of a backchannel for coordinating dissent.  BT had promised to try and get it running, but that’s BT for you.
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Impressions of FOWA 2007

Posted by Cathryn in : Technology , 2 comments

Today and Wednesday, I’m at the Future of Web Applications conference in London, mixing with geek entrepeneurs. 

The speakers are a parade of young Americans.  Kevin Rose, of Digg fame, turns thirty tomorrow.  These geeks are remarkably articulate.
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5 Useful, Free Websites

Posted by Cathryn in : Technology , 1 comment so far

The web is the best thing that ever happened to the IT project manager. Amazingly, many of the best things are free. Here are some of the ones I use regularly. (more…)

Building My Website

Posted by Cathryn in : Technology , 1 comment so far

A few weeks ago, I decided to revamp my website. You can see the results here, and, as a small aside from project management, I’d like to explain how I did it.
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Sharing spreadsheets

Posted by Cathryn in : Project Management, Technology , 2 comments

What’s the most useful project management tool there is? It’s not MS Project, or your favourite all-singing, all-dancing planning tool that allows you to create Gantt charts, do Earned Value Analysis, Critical Paths or any of the other (admittedly useful) techniques around project schedules. (more…)

A Sense of Place

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When I’m not being a project manager, I’m studying (slowly) for a degree in Earth Sciences at Birkbeck College. It’s a hobby, but at the back of my mind I wonder if I could ever use it professionally. That curiousity led me to the first meeting of the British Computer Society’s Geospatial Special Interest Group last night, where the speaker was Ed Parsons, CTO of the Ordnance Survey.

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