A colleague plucked up the courage to approach me today and ask about how I keep up to date.

They have a major issue with email overload and are a little technologically challenged.

After a bit of discussion around the details of the issue we had a look at some blogs, RSS Feeds and social tagging tools.

It was then I tied a few threads together (Chris Collison – Social Bookmarking made simple…; Patrick Lambe – Blogs can calm the raging sea; Matt Moore – You’ve got (more) mail; Chris Fletcher – Do you RSS?) and ended up directing them to some great short intros to various social computing tools at Commoncraft including:

• Blogs: http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
• Wiki: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
• RSS Feeds: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
• Social Bookmarking: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

Great way to communicate the meaning without a camtasia screenshot fest.

Cory