“Technology watch” is the activity of keeping abreast of innovations in a
given sector. There’s not a lot more to say, but in my opinion, it’s the
easiest way to learn just by reading. Even if you don’t understand the
whole subject or learn how to do the magic thing the article talks about,
you know that it exists. And that’s what really matters. A lot of services
and tools are now available online to help you do this. You should use
them because they’ll be your first source of information and new ideas on
a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Tools like Netvibes can help you save a lot of time by monitoring all your
technology watch in one place. Plus, I would recommend tracking new
contents and read all your feeds for example on Monday and Thursday, not
every day. Some of the website/forum I read every week :
- Collectives by Codrops
- Hackernoon
- SmashingMagazine
- FreeCodeCamp
- CodyHouse
- Twitter
- Web Fundamentals by Google
- Daily Dev Links
- Daywatch.io
But when you’re using content monitoring tools, try to stay focused on a
subject related to the skills you want to work on. It’s easy to get lost
and jump from one subject to another. Ok, the last article on the new
Crypto ICO is SUPER INTERESTING, but do you work in cryptocurrency? Stay
focused.
