Lillilooloo.com Information and community for consultants

Lilliloo is an interesting new website designed for consultants. It works as a community as well as a place to get downloads of resources and templates.

I'm not convinced about the name of the site but it is memorable!

Social networks for Lifelong Learners

Social netwokring is more than Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

There are a number of excellent networking sites designed specifically for those interested in and developing communities with an educational feel. They come in all shapes and sizes.

Education writer Karen Schweitzer has written a guest post on Mission to Learn which includes reviews of over twenty different sites.

New LinkedIn Group for Facilitators

If you're not yet on LinkedIn, then you may like to sign up. This is a professional networking site.

There is a new group on there for change facilitators that you may find interesting. It is called "Facilitating Change" - you can search for it when you are are on the site, or go to this link.

Convert scanned file to a text file

Got a scanned report in image format and want to edit it? Then use this online conversion service to get it into text. Probably not something you need every day but when you need it you need it.

Simple, quick, no fuss.

Simple way to do Market Research

This website offers anybody a ready chance to do market research and have it analysed, without having to incur into significant expenses. You can avoid having to spend an inordinate amount of time designing forms, collecting results and analyzing them to arrive at satisfactory conclusions.

In their own words, Requestio: "Flexible yet powerful, this web based survey software allows you to collect responses and data from your survey target audience. You can then run this data through our reporting modules to interpret the results of your online market research campaigns. With Requestio you can create, customize, deploy and promote your online market research campaigns in a few minutes."

It's all on the web, nothing to download and you can integrate with social media sites easily.

Staffguardian; keeping track if a distributed team

At first I thought this was a bit too Big Brother'ish. Bu then I got to think how useful it would be to keep tabs on fellow team members who are travelling about. This website called Staffguardian provides the facility to show the location of everyone in the team. It is easy to use, though there is a small monthly fee.

How about community nurses using something like this to keep connected with each other. Or project managers who may be working across a variety of sites.

If I knew where people were, and their availability, I think I might more often have phonecalls and I might do less email.

Show your screen and comment

Sometimes I am asked to review smeone's website or a page they are developing. Or I might have a problem using part of it. I end up sending emails with descriptions - all very long winded.

Owely has developed a very simple solution where you capture the screen, then use their functions to annotate the capture - like put an arrow and a comment on the picture. Then all you have to do is email your contact with a link and they then get to see your comments.

Easy. Productive.