Six smart and cost-effective ways to train employees

I received this article, and found interesting, not only for management, but for any employee in general. The ideas of discussion forums, blogging, and volunteering (among others) seem nice way to improve yourself, in many ways.

Worth reading: Six smart and cost-effective ways to train employees

(sent to me by Lin)

Using google chat translator bots in group

Well, this is not related to programming but our fellow Bruno told me to put here and I can finally be out of the list of persons that never put something here!

In google chat, there are "bots" that you can invite, like below:

en2ja@bot.talk.google.com : english to japanese

ja2en@bot.talk.google.com :

en2pt@bot.talk.google.com : english to portuguese

pt2en@bot.talk.google.com :

The interesting trick is that you can invite them in a group chat, and
making them work as a real time translators.

This is very useful for example when 2 persons of different native languages
need to chat using english.
If a japanese and a brazilian need to chat, you can call en2ja@ and ja2en@ and
form a group chat of 4. The japanese guy can write in japanese and the brazilian guy can
write in english.
Of course, the translation is not perfect, but it helps.