Keeping Up in the Information Age

Challenge 19: Organizational Homepages

There is a lot of information available on the internet. Sometimes, we get so spread out over email sites, RSS readers, social networking sites, and our own bookmarks that it's difficult to keep track of everything. Organizational Homepages are here to help.

Each organizational homepage is a little different. Some are linked up with your email, so if you log out of your email you will also be logged out of your homepage. If you have more than one email and login and out frequently, these might not be our best bet. Some are completely stand-alone. You can even find an organizational homepage that is more visually intensive, in case you prefer that to text.

Helpful tours:

Netvibes (Pageflakes does not have a tour, but works similarly to Netvibes.)

iGoogle

My Yahoo

Symbaloo


Your Task: Explore the sites above. You can take the tour instead of creating an account on each site, but do create an account on one of them. (If you have a Yahoo or Google account, you already have a My Yahoo and iGoogle page!) How do you think this could be helpful? Were you already using one of these services? What are the drawbacks you see?

Bonus Link: Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload.