http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org it's easy but I'm not cheap Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/open-for-business/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/open-for-business/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 02:51:02 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/open-for-business/ Webspiration the online incarnation of leading visual thinking and planning package Inspiration is open again!
They have reopened sign-ups for free beta accounts. Got an email a couple of days ago and “Audrey” also left a comment on the earlier post. (Thanks Audrey!)
Good news for those who didn’t get in earlier. I make no secret of the fact that I am a massive Inspiration fan. Webspiration is a great development and I anticipate it will only get better.

]]> http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/open-for-business/feed/ 0 http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/online-inspiration/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/online-inspiration/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:57:08 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/online-inspiration/ There are a number of concept mapping tools some free, some not so free. Inspiration is not super expensive for what you get (IMHO) but it’s not free. What it does do super well that makes it my application of choice is switch seamlessly between what they call “diagram” and “outline” views. So it goes from the concept map bubbles to bulleted list format and makes sense most of the time. What was holding Inspiration back over the last 12 months or so has been the explosion of collaborative tools such as Bubbl.us CMaps and others. Well no more. Webspiration is the Web2.0 successor of Inspiration (and Kidspiration). It’s in beta at the moment so there is bound to be a few bugs (for instance I have had difficulty uploading files) but the upside is you can try it for free. It has all the major features of the desktop version and adds the ability to track changes and collaborate with other Webspiration users. I don’t know what the business model is going to be around this product (I imagine it will be a subscriber account type thing?) but it would be great if non members could at least view the document even if they can’t collaborate. Ability to embed maps into a blog, wiki etc would also be super hot. You can be I’m putting in that suggestion.
Sign up for an account and start planning/creating/mapping/visualising. Then share it with me. I don’t have any friends you see…

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