The last six months since my layoff has been a flurry of freelance work especially article writing. Moving from the glacial drift speed of a federal government contract back to freelance writing meant I had to get organized quickly. It was back to living by my ideas again.
One of the first things I did was get reorganized quickly and came to rely on the following apps:
If you’ve attended a web conference using an iPhone, you may have missed some of the meetings because of poor connectivity and limited mobile features in web conferencing client apps. However, with the release of the Adobe Connect Mobile for iOS app and Adobe Connect 9, you can more reliably attend and even host Adobe Connect web conferences using your iPhone. You can also use the app to augment your web conference and control the Adobe Connect features (just login once from your PC and then your iPhone).
Adobe Connect has several different purchase plans, including the option to pay-per-use. Organizations that use Adobe Connect or regularly interact with customers or partners who use Adobe Connect should definitely take advantage of the free Adobe Connect Mobile for iOS app.
via Web conferencing with Adobe Connect Mobile for iOS | TechRepublic.
Takeaway: Yammer, the enterprise social network, has a capable iPhone app that can help mobile users stay in touch with their coworkers. Will Kelly demonstrates the basics of the Yammer iOS app.
Yammer, the enterprise social network and recent Microsoft acquisition, is actually quite iPhone friendly. The Yammer iOS app lets iPhone users get access to their organization’s enterprise social network, so they can monitor their feed plus send and receive messages from other network members.
One of Yammer’s goals is to replace the email inbox, and the Yammer iOS app helps extend this new breed of social enterprise to mobile users.
Takeaway: MindNode Touch lets you create and manage mind maps on your iPhone. Will Kelly walks through some of the basics of this app.
TechRepublic blogger Andrew Makar recently wrote about the top mind mapping apps for the Android tablet. Fortunately, there are plenty of mind mapping apps for smartphones as well. I’ve found MindNode Touch to be the most effective mind mapping solution for the iPhone, because it requires a minimum of taps and adjustments to create a map. Let’s take a look at how to use MindNode Touch.
via Create mind maps with MindNode Touch on the iPhone | TechRepublic.
Takeaway: The iOS calendar is a useful app, but Agenda Calendar is a great low-cost alternative that offers greater control over the presentation and accessibility of your calendar data. Will Kelly explains.
As it goes with many of the apps in an operating system, you may need more features or grow tired with the user interface. That is the point I reached with the iOS calendar on my iPhone. I went to Agenda Calendar as a substitute, because it has a minimal design, a great user experience, and more configuration options.Let’s take a look at Agenda Calendar 3.0, which includes some speed and UI improvements. You can download Agenda Calendar from the App Store for $0.99 USD.
via Replace your iPhone calendar with Agenda Calendar | TechRepublic.
In Getting Started with OneNote: Part 1, I focused on how to get yourself started in OneNote 2010. Now that you have notebooks setup, it’s time to get your information into OneNote. While this is going to be an ongoing task for many OneNote users, expect some setup time if you are moving your information into OneNote for the first time.
OneNote offers some flexible options for getting your information into its pages and note books. Here are some options for getting your information into OneNote 2010. read more
One of the technologies I’ve been waiting to advance more into the mainstream is electronic signatures. While I have a smooth process down to print out contracts and other documents that need my signature and then scan them into PDFs with my Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner, I would still like to whittle down the signatory process even further. Now that EchoSign, an electronic signature solution is an Adobe acquisition, I decided to reopen my research into electronic signature options.
Even smaller projects can benefit from a project management tool where the team lead and members can at least centralize task management. However, Microsoft Project can be overkill in such situations so it is better to look for a more mid-range tool for managing such projects and tasks. This is where cloud based project management applications really excel. After recently writing about Do.com, I learned about Asana – a cloud based task management application and had to check it out.
As a cloud-based task management application, Do.com greets you with full HTML 5 goodness. It’s a real slick and responsive task management application for individuals or project teams. I’ve long been a believer in the democratization of project management data and how cloud-based applications can help geographically dispersed project teams collaborate and communicate during projects. read more
With the cloud becoming more the project management platform of choice, the market for cloud-based project management tools is really heating up. Cohuman – now owned by MindJet, of MindJet MindManager fame—is in the same league as Asana and Do.com but touts more control over tasks and projects with their locking feature. Cloud-based project management tools are great for freelancers and project teams because they are easy to learn and implement while owing no allegiance to any particular project management methodology.
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