Teamstudio Voices

1 - IMHO there are WAY too many silos of information. The whole Blog/Wiki Spheres have enabled anyone with anything to say to create a site and say it. Unfortunately most of what they say is useless and they 10% that is useful is not readily accessible, nor search able for that matter. The online forums are worse than pulling my own teeth for finding anything in a timely manner.

So I read a few blogs and wikis and other stuff on line, but I still love the tried and true threaded discussion databases in Notes. The most valuable is the Partner Forum (if you are an IBM business partner and are not in there, get it!), followed by The Notes Forums, which I read using the Notes Client whenever possible.

But then, I don't get Twitter either.

Newbs

2 - Finding what I know I don't know: specific piece of technical data.
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First I use Google to see what I can find. This usually yields results.

Then, if it's something that would be in a technical book, I log into my O'Reilly Safari Books Online subscription and search all the text of the whole library.

If I find that one of the books has what I'm looking for, I add it to my bookshelf and read.

My next step is to search blogs and forums I know of. Perhaps even post a question. I've gotten lots of quick answers that way ... sometimes in just minutes.

If it's a code issue I sometimes find a library and buy it. I did that for a Rich Text search and replace library that works in Notes/Domino. It saved my client thousands of dollars of my labor and cost only a hundred.

If I still can't find it, and it's critical to a project, I start calling consultants. In a few cases I've hired them to work out the answer for a few hundred dollars.

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Finding what I don't know I don't know: keeping current with new products, technology and opportunities.

Number one here is blogs and podcasts. I read blogs all the time. Yours is one. My favorite is CodeStore (codestore.net) Jake is using Flex with Domino to great result. I'm going to try that myself.

I've just recently started listening to podcasts on my daily commute, mostly aimed at new media technology.

I subscribe to a few (free) tech journals, again about media. ("Post" and "Videography". I'm gradually moving into Internet media production.)

Peace,

Rob:-]

3 - I find the Google search that John Coolidge set up is a great way to trawl through the various blogs and forums - { Link }

4 - First google, of course. Then a few obvious places: KBase, BP Forums & notes.net forums.

If that fails: phone a friend, or ask the audience.

OK... usually it's IM or email a friend rather than phone. I pick a friend I think is likely to know, or likely to know someone who knows.

And the audience would be my blog readers -- though twitter is a possibility.

5 - If I need some info, I make use of google, and if I need to download some certian file, I usually use special search engines. There are many of them now!

6 - Today noticed that Bing poradiruet Google, or simply steal their base ...

7 - Bing is not even near google.

8 - Keep posting stuff like this i really like it.

9 - I use Google for all my needs...nice one..

10 - First google, of course. Then a few obvious places: KBase, BP Forums & notes.net forums.

11 - Ya Google is nice website for getting all the information. ...

12 - Bing is not even near google.
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13 - And the audience would be my blog readers -- though twitter is a possibility.

14 - Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

15 - I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

16 - Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.