by admin on February 5, 2009
I have been using Jott.com for a few weeks now – and I must say – I am loving it.
When I am away from my laptop – and I remember a task for a project component or I am making an appointment with someone – I just call it in to Jott – and it sends a message to MS Outlook . It creates a prompt the task or Calendar entry. - I get a chance to edit it for additional details. I have found this a great way to be productive while I am sitting waiting for appointments . I have even used it while I am standing in line at Costco!
The web-based software uses voice to text technology to convert what I am saying into text. For the most part – the conversion has been “spot-on” in its translation – and the few times – it is not exactly as I had said it – it is pretty darn close – close enough for me to a quick edit for it.
The real test for me will be in a couple of weeks while I am on the road travelling. I can already see how this is going to save me even more time.
One of the functions that I have not tested out is the voice-to-twitter function. I must admit – it sounds appealing – and yet my trust factor is still building for this function. I am looking forward to doing a little experimentation when I have time.
by admin on March 25, 2008
Jim Edward’s multi-media blog this morning had a wonderful post on some cool new Firefox plug ins that really help with productivity. One in particular caught my eye and my energy: It’s called Speed Dia l . I got super excited on this one – because – this plug in – combined with a program I already use now - RoboForm makes moving around from site to site – a snap.
The best part of this – is that I can now – run a sequence of checking emails, membership sites, and blogs in an order from my Speed Dial page. It’s quick, it’s efficient – and more than anything else – it gives me a visual map of where I am going to.
T he Product: Speed Dial for Firefox 2.0
The Marketing Blurb: "With Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites"
The Product Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810
My Experience: Super Duper!
by Admin on December 12, 2007
It’s good to be clear on what you are looking for in a virtual assistant before hiring one. For example, there is a distinction between looking for a VA that can be an extension of your brand and one that is doing strictly admin tasks and working on information technology tasks. They have different skill sets. You will also find that a lot of VA’s specialize in a couple different areas.
Here are some online sources of Virtual Assistants:
www.getfriday.com -Overseas assistance – lower cost
www.ivaa.org – virtual Assistant Networking Association
www.virtualassitanceu.com – you can submit a request for proposal and receive info from many different VA’s in training.
www.vacertification.com
Google " Virtual Assistant Training" and you will get a few options – and your biggest assistance would to be to ask for a referral from someone. The very best way to find an excellent VA is to ask for and get referrals.
Expect to pay 30-60/hr and to commit to a retainer for Virtual Assistants.
Here are a couple of Virtual Assistants I have been referred to:’
Virtual Accurracy
http://www.victoriabusinesssolutions.com/
www.assistu.com
deborahc@vascorp.com or her phone number is 905-474-0955.
Peggy Murrah. peggy@onepagewebdesign.com
by admin on December 6, 2007
The Marketer: Google
The Marketing Blurb: "The great thing about Reader, is it lets you follow sites more effeciently than you could just by visiting them directly"
What it is: A free feed (rss) reader
What it does: provides a central reading place for all the newsfeeds you are interested in. A nice drag and drop function lets you easily organize folders and move feeds between folders and well as re-order thing sup and down your list. One of the nice functions of this reader is that there is no software to install
Product link: Google Reader
My Experience: I have used NewsGator and for longest time now Bloglines for my online feed reader. What is different about Google’s reader frankly is that it seems easier to read – and anything that makes my life easier – I am all over it.
by admin on November 19, 2007
The Marketer: IHMC
The Marketing Blurb:“Empowering users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps”
Software, self-hosted, no cost if for personal use.
The Product Link:http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
What it does: Among a lot of other things – CMAP tools is a wonderful product to use when you need to create a concept map of a series of directional steps. Any planning activity that requires a series of forward moving steps is handled quite nicely by this program. You can also do a lot of other things with this program – Have a look at their home page where you can find details about functionality and different versions that are available.
