On Thursday night, I presented a session on the Future of Communication to the Tampa STC chapter. (This was a more enhanced version of the session I gave to the Boston chapter in February, and will be changed and re-enhanced for my keynote at the Yggdrasil Conference in October.)

Someone asked if I would share my slides, because they wanted the links of the different sites I talked about. However, the slides don't actually contain the links, so here they are!

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You can purchase Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from Wikis, Blogs, and Other Collaborative Tools, by Brenda Huettner, Kit Brown, and Char James-Tanny, at Wordware Publishing.

I talked about Second Life (showing a screenshot of the DITA User's Group meeting room). BTW, I happen to know that a building is currently under development on one of the islands for those who want to hold training sessions. As soon as the training rooms are available, I'll post more information.

JTF Associates owns (rents?) an Adobe Acrobat Connect room. We use it for customer support, AuthorIT training and support, and meetings.

Time zone information:

• World Time Server
• Time and Date
• Time Zone Map

Broadband statistics are available at OECD.

Blogs

• I'd Rather Be Writing
• Palimpsest
• Heidi Hansen's blog
• by Ron Miller

Podcasts

• Tech Writer Voices
• You Tube (check out Introducing Le book and Battle at Kruger. (I mentioned that I'd first heard about Battle of Kruger from Rhonda Bracey's blog. Tom Johnson then blogged about how someone included the link in a previous blog entry's comments, which is where Rhonda got it. He was impressed by how information travels. I was impressed that people read the comments!)
• Yahoo! Podcasts
• podcast.net

Wikis

• WikiWackyWorld
• MSHelpWiki
• Wikipedia
• SwarmSketch
• STC Carolina Chapter
• STC Communication Department (for Tieline, News & Notes, and photo galleries)

RSS

• Feedreader
• CITA RSS Aggregator
• Bloglines
• Google Reader

Mashups

• Yahoo Pipes (the one I created is called STC Latest News).
• Ms. Dewey
• Housing Maps
• Associated Press

Have fun!