Will Kelly

My Favorite Web Apps for 2009

Web applications play a major part in my current professional work and there are some rather than others that join my list of favorites. Starting to write for WebWorkerDaily this year really gave me exposure to a lot of new applications and web services. Here are some of my favorite web services for 2009:

WWD Post: Corporate Telecommuting: The H1N1 Virus Edition

News of a possible H1N1 virus, or “Swine Flu,” pandemic is causing many commercial firms and government agencies to examine their Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans so business can soldier on during the crisis. The threat of an H1N1 outbreak is even prompting the United States Centers for Disease Control to recommend that small businesses have telework and business continuity plans in place.

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My latest post to WebWorkerDaily was inspired by one too many discussions about how an organization can extend their infrastructure in short order to maintain a continuity of operations in the advent of an H1N1 virus outbreak.

WWD Post: When Evernote Meets Twitter

Along with the addition of collaboration features, Evernote now integrates with Twitter. My first reaction to this news was that Evernote was falling into the “me too” trap that some companies get into with social media, especially with Twitter.

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My latest WebWorkerDaily post went live today. It is the second time I've written about Evernote and look forward to seeing what else is coming from their product roadmap.

Revive Your Online Presence After A Career Splat

In February of this year, I found myself on the wrong side of the United States economy and back in a very tight job market. During the course of my employment, I made the mistake of letting my online presence and my personal branding languish because I made what I thought was a career move and my Web presence related to my work as a technical writer and consultant. This was a huge mistake.

To me my personal brand and online presence are synonymous since I am a technology writer. Based on my lessons learned, here are some tips if you find yourself needing to revive your online presence.

Social Media, Internal Communications, and the Enterprise

Social Media is becoming an increasing requirement for communications in the enterprise. Web Journal 2.0 recently had a great post on this very subject:

Social Media Inching Its Way into the Enterprise — Social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and collaboration and at times filling them before the enterprise can fully grasp and control the flow. In a new study released this week, user-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group found that many of the most successful social media initiatives on company intranets start as underground, grassroots efforts led by front-line workers, and which later are officially sanctioned by the enterprise.

WordPress and LinkedIn

LinkedIn is really pressing forward with the integration of third-party applications and Web services into their platform. All in all, this is a prudent move for LinkedIn to keep pace with social networking and to do the best to augment their platform.

Their integration with WordPress means LinkedIn users can tie into their WordPress site and have their latest posts  show up in their LinkedIn profile.

Box.net on LinkedIn

I've written before on this blog about the convergence of social networking, online collaboration tools, and the Web Office.

LinkedIn, a business-focused social networking site is jumping into that fray by offering up integration to a free Box.net account. This is a great vehicle for posting writing samples (that are in the public domain) and even Word or PDF versions of resumes to make them accessible on LinkedIn.

Added Social Media as a New Blog Category

Considering where the current market, my thinking, and my writing is headed, I've added a Social Media category to my blog.

SlideShare Presentations and LinkedIn

Online presentation services and a professionally facing social media platform like LinkedIn are an ideal match as job seekers seek to differentiate themselves.

LinkedIn offers SlideShare Presentations as application add-in to augment your LinkedIn profile. SlideShare Presentations supports all the major presentation software formats including *.ppt, *.pps, *odp, keynote, *doc, and *.odt.