Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

Using Speed Dial Tools - Get it Done Faster!

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 - [...]

Virtual Assistants

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 [...]

Read Blogs of Interest with A News Feed Reader

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 [...]

CMAP Tools - Directional Concept Mapping

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 [...]