VirtuKnowHow

The idea behind this series is to provide readers with an awareness of the Internet devices that are emerging to help us communicate and explore the knowledge of living. VirtuKnowHow puts these ideas into a practical context so that more and more people will better understand what resources exist and how they can use them to be better informed about technological life. Few would argue that much is happening to the ways and means of our interactions because of advances in the ways we post, create, send, share, and even Wiki up our own ideas.

Now it would be nice to have the know-how about using these virtual tools.

Beginning with this piece, my goal is to offer examples of existing and new resources and how they can help gain a level of comfort with VirtuKnowHow. The topics can and will range from basic communication tools (such as Open Source dictionaries and encyclopedias that are democratically redefining our world) to “Jeteye Technologies,” to borrow one resources name, that seek to encapsulate knowledge in highly user-friendly knowledge packages.

Technology is making it necessary that we participate to greater and greater degrees to the various modes of communication around us, sometimes even when we don’t know we are participating. For this to happen well and with our creative contributions, we need VirtuKnowHow that empowers us to be engaged in what is happening around us.

Below are examples of VirtuKnowHow resources in each of the pieces. Periodically we hope to explore how these ideas are being ingeniously used by real people like you and us (the latter being, as you will see, “big V” virtually incompetents).

At the end of each piece we will provide ways to contact us to share your ideas for future postings, as well as links to the specific resources we highlight.

Today’s VirtuKnowHow RESOURCES: