Posts Tagged ‘timeline’
The timeline makes a timley come back!
July 7th, 2008
Timelines have been around for years but it seems just recently they have made a bit of a timely comeback, with a number of new timeline apps doing the start-up rounds. From a PR perspective, they can be a great way of telling a company story in a format that can be shared socially.
There used to be a time when to create a timeline you had to go through the rigmarole of setting-up Excel to crunch the numbers.
Here is a list of some of the better timeline applications out there:
Lifehaps - Simple to use drag and drop life timeline.
timetoast - Easy on the eye timeline that can be edited in minutes.
xtimeline - Make your timeline then add it to a group. E.g if your timeline was about Sony mobile phones then you could add it to the Mobile phones group.
viygo - Simple looking timeline with some excellent features, including your own Twitter timeline. Input your username and get a timeline of all your Tweets.
caplez - This has to be the best looking timeline interface, and it gives you the ability to add multi-media content to your timelines.
Dipity -Is another good addition with a great homepage that has its timelines in categories making them easy to search.
If the above is all a bit easy and you want to create a timeline the old skool way, you can always do it in Excel. Click here to find out how to do it.
Timelines are a Great Way to Share Information
May 19th, 2008
Today we’ve come across a great site called Dipity - a timeline creation tool, that we thought might be of interest to some of our readers. It offers a nice and easy visual way to share information on any given topic.
“Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.” - a claim from the site.
The timelines them selves are quite hard to follow, especially if you have crammed loads of events in over the space of a week. But you can get around this by being able to view the contents in other ways such as the list view and flip book view.
We were particularly interested in the technology section which houses over 170 timeliness such as TechMeme, Adobe Air, TechCrunch, already created.
One nice feature I must commend them on is the sign-up process, where you can input put your Twitter user name, and import a blog feed among other things, which starts you off with your own personal timeline - this is basically a more visual type of life stream or digital footprint.
Other nice ways to use the timeline could be for presentations or research purposes…