Along the Way…

There are so many really great webcasts, online, these days, that it’s difficult to know which ones to invest your precious time in viewing. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a “Cliff Notes” service that reviewed these valuable sources if knowledge, so we could avoid wasting time without missing the nuggets?

There is! Tim Bauer watches webcasts for you, and publishes his review online, so you know which ones to watch. Based on the name of his blog, I presume that he’s incorporated these webcasts into his daily fitness routine; probably watching them while he’s jogging on a treadmill or something.

If there’s a particular webcast you’re interested in, you can even submit it to his queue, so he’ll review it for you!

If you’re collecting your RSS feeds in Outlook, like I am, it’s pretty simple to set up some rules and custom views to automatically get reminded to watch the best webcasts:

To get the automatic flagging (which adds the “Definitely Watch This” webcasts to your task list), you create a rule that looks like this:

To get the color coding, you can use the Automatic Formatting feature of Outlook views. To do this, click on “Customize Current View…” under “Current View” on the “View” menu:

Next, press the “Automatic Formatting…” button:

Push the “Add” button to create a new formatting rule:

Name it something useful, press the “Font…” button and pick the formatting you want, then press the “Condition…” button and set up a rule, such as:

Voila! You’ll have a cool, new service that reviews webcasts and lets you know which ones you should be watching!

Thanks, Tim, for wading through all those crappy webcasts to let us know what’s worth watching… and, thanks for making it so easy to actually use your reviews, too!

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