So the Tool Time presentations in class this past week were very cool.  I really enjoyed Oscar and Kevin’s presentation about Diigo.  I had never even heard about this website before and thought it might be a good tool to use in the office.  My boss was out at corporate headquarters last week, and on Monday when she was back at our office I got the chance to talk with her about possibly using this application.  She also is very interested in Web 2.0 applications and had never heard of Diigo but had used Delicious before.  She was up for trying it out and I think this coming week we are going to be setting up our accounts. 

Since we also have a new member of our training department who is going to be based at headquarters in Minnesota we decided to have a weekly meeting about Web 2.0 applications and which ones we can use to communicate better with one another.  I am really excited to see the relationship between school and work grow as I get further involved with this course.  Hopefully I will get to show my co-workers some cool new tools and applications to use to better improve and grow our department.  I’m sorry I am going to miss this week’s presentations and hopefully will be able to learn about the different applications through other classmates’ blogs and the posting boards.

This week was very busy at work as our new co-worker was out from Minnesota to train for a week.  It was one of her first times in Philadelphia so my boss wanted to make sure we did a lot of team building.   One night we took advantage of Philadelphia’s Restaurant Week and went to 1225 Raw.   For those of you that enjoy sushi, I highly recommend this restaurant.  The service was great and the food was out of this world.  We all ordered something different and sampled each others and agreed everything was fabulous.  After dinner we took our out-of-town guest on a driving tour of the city and ended up at the Comcast Center’s Comcast Experience.  It was truly amazing and I highly recommend that you go and check it out.  Using our “tools” that we learned about last week I even found this pictureon Flickr.

As I said I won’t be in class this week, but I will be there next week and Tara and I will be doing our Tool Time presentation about Second Life.  I’ll also be doing my Individual Lesson, so this will be a very busy week trying to finalize both presentations.  I’m also going to the Articulate Users Conference that Jaff mentioned in class last week and look forward to sharing what I learn there maybe in my next post.

Until then…