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10 Things Better than Email Attachments
One of my responsibilities at Jewish Day School is to write a weekly “tech tips” column for the online faculty news. This is one such tip (and it is, again, a bit FirstClass-centric, focused on some of our internal systems — we’re running a WPMU blog server and a MindTouch DekiWiki).
We won’t rehearse all of the problems with email attachments here (Can I open that file? What happened to my disk quota!? Which version was it?) Instead, let us focus on things that improve the experience. In fact, here’s a short video Top Ten list:
Links from the video
- Convenience: YouSendIt.com (and Scrivener, a fun writing application)
- Collaboration: Wikis (specifically the Laptop Leaders)
- Focus: Blogs (specifically the Digital Portfolios PLN — Seth, [and his colleagues] can help you set up your own)
- Reach Out: Google Docs (and Spreadsheets, Presentations, and more…)
- Brevity: The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
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Interestingly, I forgot to mention the idea of straight-up posting attachment-type content to the web and passing around links. (I mentioned one or two versions of this, but not the whole idea.) For example, posting images to Flickr and then sending a Guest Pass link to all the folks who might want to see those pictures. (I was reminded of this by my friend Catherine: http://twitter.com/laramide/status/10410752051)