Top 10 Organizational and Content Management Productivity Tools

BaseCamp – http://www.basecamphq.com/

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This is not a necessary tool for most. I use it to set up my projects and to collaborate with my little team of people that work for me. The features this bad boy has are through the roof but, like I said, you don’t really need it if you’re running a one man shop. Another service from the same company that might be better suited as a personal option is Backpack. It’s roughly 1/3 rd the price of BaseCamp but boasts similar features

Evernote – http://www.evernote.com/

Evernote - one place for everything

Take Evernote away from most of the serious cloud warriors and they would not know what to do. Evernote holds the whole life of some of the most successful people I know. You can use the tool for free up to a certain amount of data – the paid version is like $5/month. They offer desktop clients for Mac, PC, iPhone and Android in addition to a webbased
client.
The web-based client us pretty good. The desktop client is really good. I have it installed across all my computers and it has never missed a beat in keeping all my stuff synced across them all. You can sync pictures, text snippets, PDF’s, screenshots and a whole bunch of other formats.
If you have the web based client, the desktop client and the iphone app you can seamless build your notes to refer to whenever you need content or ideas.

Google Docs – http://docs.google.com/

Google Docs

A perfect “Cloud” version of MS Office. Google Docs is my replacement for all desktop “Office” tools. They offer document creation, spreadsheets, a presentation tool and a very good dashboard to organize all your online documents. There are competitors to this tool like Box.net. Google Docs, however, is 100% free and does a mighty fine job filling in all my “Cloud Office” needs.

Memeo Connect – http://www.memeoconnect.com/

Memeo Connect

If, like me, you’re going to be doing most of your content work in Google Docs – Memeo is quite the “killer app”. Google Docs, by itself is, awesome but what Memeo does is offer you a better way of structuring all of your different pieces of content. Memeo also makes sure you can work while being offline.
You can write your content, edit spreadsheets or presentations without an Internet connection. Once you go online, Memeo will “sync” your changes and makes sure you have the latest versions available at all times. Wonderful service that works on both Macs and PC’s.

Dropbox – http://www.dropbox.com

Drop Box

Consider Dropbox as your personal Cloud. I use it to save copies of my important files, PDF’s and text files but you can put in anything you can imagine. By using Dropbox, you have a double advantage – you have back ups of the files in case something happens to your locally stored files and the second advantage is that you can access your files from any remote location. I recommend you sign up for a free account and start using Dropbox as your online file repository.

Google Reader – http://reader.google.com/

In order to stay on top of your NanoContext markets and niches, you’ll need access to an RSS client. There are a slew of RSS readers available. I use Google Reader because it’s simple and already integrated with my Gmail account. In the manual, I’ll show you a cool trick that will enable you to find all the good resources about a market using Google Reader.

Google Alerts – http://alerts.google.com/

Google Alerts allows you to receive newly indexed Google content about specific keywords in your mailbox. You can set up Alerts for just about anything. Keywords, URL’s, names and what have you. It’s the ideal way to stay on track with your markets – by setting up GA’s you’ll always know the “news”
immediately. It will become clear to you how we will put GA’s to use in the manual.

SmartSheet – http://smartsheet.com/

Smart Sheet

There are bundles of applications that you could SmartSheet for but the one reason I use it for is the seamless connection
with Amazon mTurk. Amazon mTurk consists of a pool of people that you can outsource small tasks to. SmartSheet takes the hassle out of
using the mTurk service. You just enter a task, a description and a budget into your SmartSheet Project – enable the
SmartSource function and your task gets presented to 1000’s of workers immediately.

Please note that, in order to use the SmartSource function, you’ll need to upgrade your account to a paid version.

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