Kevin Devin located a site that has links to 4 of the Common Craft “In Plain English” videos. The 4 included on this page are RSS Feeds, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, and Social Networks. These are great ways to introduce the newbies in your life to these technologies, without all the techno mumbo-jumbo. 
I’ve recently had to conduct two interviews for a Network Engineer at our company and at both interviews I asked questions about keeping up to date with technology. I was surprised at the answers considering the job role. I asked if they listened to any podcasts or subscribed to any blogs. Both answered in the negative. I was really surprised as I can’t see how a person can effectively keep up to date with all the latest updates, patches, bugs, tools, software and tips that a network or systems engineer needs without subscribing to a podcast or at the very least some technical blogs.
Sometimes the excuse given is that people don’t have the time to listen to a podcast or read several blogs but they have the time to watch a couple of hours tv each night or spend 30 minutes at the coffee machine discussing the game or their drinking exploits!
Hopefully the Friends In Tech site helps with little tidbits of information that don’t take up a lot of time but do provide useful feedback - and this tip is about Microsoft’s new Technet Webcast Express - webcasts on various subjects lasting about 10-15 minutes to gain a quick overview on a product or it’s features. Currently there are 9 webcasts, 7 on Sharepoint and 2 on the Office2007 document format but keep an eye open for new Webcasts. If Sharepoint doesn’t get you excited then spend 10 minutes catching up with some product news from other bloggers in an area that you are interested in - and if you have an interview in the future - don’t forget to mention Friends In Tech as the blog you read to keep up to date!
In our on-going series on “Why do you Podcast?” Douglas E. Welch shares his reasoning.
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Victor Cajiao shares with us his reasons why he podcasts. This is the fifth installment in or series on, “Why do you Podcast?”
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Steve Holden shares with us his reasons in our on-going series, “Why do you podcast?”
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In our on-going series on “Why do you podcast?” Kreg Steppe shares his reasons.
In the first of several installments on this topic, Chuck Tomasi shares why HE podcasts.
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Kevin Devin brings us a videocast of how he is setup to record Skype calls to help with podcasting. Tricks include panning and mix-minus learned from Doug Kaye and Leo Laporte’s bag of tricks.
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