Going around the room of participants each person shared 1-3 of their favourite tools that they use most often during their daily duties.
- Microsoft OneNote EverNote – part of Microsoft office. Only part of the Student Suite and ultimate (?) suite. Don’t need to use post-it notes, text files, etc. Tabs, subpages, etc. Screen clipping, audio, calculator, tables, list, easy user interface, type anywhere you want on the screen. 60-day free trial. Give yourself more than a day to try it out. Put it into your daily work-flow. EverNote – web based. OneNote – desktop based. Will also search for words in audio files.
- myhours.com – time tracking, clicktime.com – project time tracking
- Twitter.com – microblogging, info intake, tons of feeds
- Delicious – one for work, one for personal
- pixlr.com image editor
- sumo.fi – image editing
- screengrab – add on to firefox, snag-it, and entire scroll down of a screen
- MS Outlook – email, tasks, time (2007 has an RSS reader)
- Lifehacker – blog, interesting read
- Remember the Milk – to do apps (can be used within google homepage as well)
- Qlock.com – world time zone tracker or world clock meeting planner
- Facebook for sending emails to students – to reach students quicker than regular emails
- Yahoo Toolbar – put up icons as shortcuts for his own websites
- LinkedIn – looked at as a more professional based “facebook“
- Gravatar.com – one picture for all places, gives you a url for your picture that then can go into every other place
- Ning sites as well for social networking
- Google Apps – share docs, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.
- Google Toolbar – save bookmarks as well
- TED talks
- Michael Lingenburger (sp?) – Maximizing Outlook to the best it can be
- O’Riley – the hack series – google hacks, etc.
- Adobe Connect – not blocked by most firewalls, someone on the other side can assist you in presenting, or creating virtual meetings
- Sorenson products to present and convert videos to play on the web, compression
- Audacity – free sound editing program, there are add-ons for this as well, use for recording SME’s
- Collective X , Community Zero – Social Networking
- Inspiration – mind mapping tool, webspiration.com as well
Additional tools can be found at: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/ – Jane Hart, she has extensive complied list of top 10 lists collected from users that have supplied to her. There is a further full catalogue within her directory. You can drill down into a particular contributors top ten list.