Tech Tools

I have been using Jott.com now since February of 2009  – and every day I am finding ways to make the system work well for me.   One of the things I have discovered is that when I am working at my desk – it is faster for me to use a JOTT EXPRESS  a Outlook add-in to quickly add tasks to my Outlook tasks and Calendars as well as a number of other places such as Smart Sheets.    When I am away from my desk – I use Jott.com and call in my tasks and appointments.   My new process when I am working at my desk I use Jott Express to capture the task or appointment.   By usiing Jott Express I don’t need to interrupt my work flow in order to capture my idea, thought, action step, meeting or what ever.  It’s fast.

Getting your website or blog listed in high quality web directories can be a time consuming task. There are organizations that will do this for you such as PageRankSubmit.com as well as some others – or if you are like me, you might be interested to to know that you can get direct, targeted traffic and one way links from directories by directly submitting to them. Doing this exercise may improve your search engine rankings and Google PageRank. I am just beginnin this process – and here are some of the directories that I am submitting to:

Clarib Web Directory
Info-Listings
BetterWebDirectory
JamJaa
Illumirate
Free Website Directory
DirectoryVault
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The Marketer: Techsmith

The Marketing Blurb: "Camtasia is the complete professional solution for recording, editing and sharing high-quality screen videos. It’s easy-to-use, affordable, and is the quickest and most effective way for you to communicate."

The Product Link: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/pcpls.asp

What it does: Screen capture – to video.

My Experience: I have been using Camtasia Studio since version 4 – and now I own version 5 – I am happy with it – and enjoy the extra features now included with version 5. I would recommend the upgrade.

Previously, CamStudio was an option for those wanting to do screen capture – with an open source product. Camtasia Studio – is much more user-friendly.

T he Marketer: Siber Systems Inc

The Marketing Blurb: "Roboform is the top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and form filling"

The Product Link: RoboForm

What it Does: You remember 1 password – and RoboForm remembers the rest. It saves time – it goes to a website and logs you in automatically, stores your passwords encrypted on your computer, it will generate passwords that hackers can’t guess, it fills passwords only on matching websites – so you won’t get caught by phishing sites.

My Experience: I have been using RoboForm now for about 3 months. I must say this is one of the best productivity tools I have picked up on in months and boy is it easy to use.

Keeping track of membership sites, papal accounts, list serves, shopping, domains, web logs and all the other sites I belong to – started to become a bit of a hassle. So much so, that I started to notice I wasn’t joining in on things just because I didn’t want to have to keep track of 1 more sign in code.

Then along came RoboForm

I am truly amazed about how much easier It is to check all of my accounts now. What used to take me 1/2 hr to do – now takes 10 minutes – and I find I moving a lot quicker from site to site now.

I went for the pro-version, although there is a free version available for download.

If you are like me and you have a lot of passwords and log-in names – this product would be one of my highest recommended tools for a busy small business owner.