http://www.freedcamp.com/

A free project management tool without restrictions on how many users or projects you can manage.
MindMeister

http://www.mindmeister.com/

Shared collaboration and brainstorming facilitation platform. Plan projects, manage meetings and sketch out business plans online with partners and colleagues, all in real time!
CampFire

http://campfirenow.com/

Product from 37signals, Campfire is like instant messaging, but designed exclusively for groups. Share text, files, and code in real time, and save transcripts so you don’t forget anything you covered.
Evernote

http://evernote.com/

Evernote lets you capture ideas, images, or audio clips from your PC or phone, and then sync them to the cloud for easy retrieval and organization. It even works with handwritten notes, turning your chicken scratch into searchable text. Use it if you want a better way of saving all the information
BackPack

http://backpackit.com/

Backpack is an easy intranet for your business. Store, share, discuss, and archive everything that is essential for your team.
BaseCamp

http://basecamphq.com/

This is also a product from 37signals, Basecamp is the top choice for entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses, and groups inside big organizations.
<strong>Teamly

http://teamly.com/

Teamly is a tool used by hundreds of businesses and thousands of individuals to improve their performance in the workplace. Teamly aims to help people move beyond their mile–long to–do list and focus instead on what is truly important.

This article by Paul Tough , a must read for people working in education , has an apt title- What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? He narrates various examples to show that many of the elite school students fumble when they face ‘failure’. “ Students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically ..; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths, like optimism and persistence and social intelligence. They were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to do better next . Read it.

Ten Paradoxes of Technology from The IRMACS Centre on Vimeo.

http://www.spreaker.com/

Get everybody on the same page, when they’re not in the same room, instantly. Review documents and designs. Train staff. Demo products or just show off. join.me is a ridiculously simple screen sharing tool for meetings on the fly.

https://secure.join.me/default.aspx

Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University and the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, is now in effort to re-establish the Nalanda University, considered to be the world’s oldest centre of higher learning . As chairman of the Interim Governing Board of Nalanda University Sen is spearheading an Asian initiative, involving India, China, Singapore, Japan and Thailand. He believes that Nalanda stands for the passion of propagating knowledge and understanding. It was a residential university, and at its peak had 10,000 students from many countries, especially China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey, studying various subjects. Read Professor Sen in an interview to the Hindu .

Social media account for 22.5 percent of the time that Americans spend online, according to the report, compared with 9.8 percent for online games and 7.6 percent for e-mail.

That makes social media the No. 1 specific category and the No. 2 category over all, behind “other” ways Americans spend time online, among them perusing adult content, visiting retail Web sites and reading about subjects like sports and health.
In such a scenario you may like this presentation , ‘Think like a Rock star and how to build fans and community around your social Media efforts.