FreePint's 235th issue, just out today, features My Favourite Tipples, literally mine. FreePint goes twice a month to roughly 100,000 "information workers."
How does something like this come about, my list of favorite websites published in an online newsletter based in the UK? Hint to speakers: As people are coming into your next session, wander around, introduce yourself, ask people's names. Practicing my preaching, I did this at our Enterprise 2.0 workshop that Sandy Kemsley reported on in her post, Reports from the Frontier. There I met Monique Cuvelier, editor of FreePint, who handed me her business card and suggested I might want to write something for the newsletter. After the conference, I fulfilled my pledge to write to everyone who'd handed me a business card. Monique responded by asking me for this little piece.
Why not send Monique your "tipples?" Read on for mine.
My Favourite Tipples
By Jessica Lipnack
In
my work on networks and virtual teams--and as a writer, I'm always
looking around for creative and thought-provoking ideas -- here's where
I go on a regular basis to shake up my thinking.
- For original thinking about the far edges of where the Web can take
us, bookmark Minding the Planet, where Nova Spivack holds forth:
<http://novaspivack.typepad.com/>.
- Michael Sampson of Christchurch, NZ, a tireless blogger and expert
on all things collaboration, is also known for his ability to take
verbatim notes at conferences and post them immediately:
<http://www.michaelsampson.net/>.
- Writers (aren't we all writers now?), come hither! Francis Ford
Coppola's immensely generous gift to the writing community offers
review exchanges and excellent discussion forums - all completely
free: <http://www.zoetrope.com/>.
- Running a Hospital, the blog of the CEO of a large American medical
centre, is informative about health care, as well as funny and
controversial, and even includes the occasional recipe:
<http://runningahospital.blogspot.com>.
- Travelling on your mind? Don't set foot in Oceania or a good part of Asia without Turkeynose.com <http://www.turkeynose.com>, where a conscientious couple has posted detailed reports of their 6-month journey, complete with ratings of every activity, form of accommodation, and restaurant.
