There are many low cost tools that can make you more productive this year.
Now that the new year is in full swing, I’d like to provide everybody in our extended
Forbes
family with a few no-calorie treats that can make your business more
productive in 2013. Here are 10 top picks (in no particular order) for
some fun and simple productivity apps that are either brand new or
offering new features in early 2013. Enjoy—and feel free to chime in
with your own top recommendations and picks for the New Year.
1.
Meeting Mapper and Meeting Mapper Fierce, from Point N Time Software
Meeting Mapper is a new productivity tool from Point-N-Time
Are you having successful meetings? How do you know?
Meeting Mapper
is an intuitive and elegant application for iPads that makes it easy to
gather up and “map” (thus the name) the information you need for truly
successful meetings. This application tracks the role and the stance
(opinion) of every participant in a meeting, and makes it easy to create
action items or next steps and automatically schedule the actions for
follow up. Meeting Mapper costs $6.99 and is available from the iTunes
store. A related application,
Meeting Mapper Fierce, is integrated with
SalesForce and is optimized to serve as a strategic weapon for closing new sales. Meeting Mapper Fierce is available from the
SalesForce AppExchange.
2.
EchoSign for iOS, from Adobe
EchoSign for iOS, from Adobe
Here’s a new e-signature application for traveling
sales reps who need to get contracts signed quickly. This new app allows
users to send, sign and manage documents from within the application.
It eliminates the need to carry large paper-based contracts. Users can
access documents or contracts from their
Box, Dropbox, or
Acrobat.com accounts or from the mobile device itself and use EchoSign to get them signed immediately and in-person.
EchoSign is available from
Adobe in pricing arrangements that range from free for 1-5 users, to $299 or $399 for an enterprise or global license.
3.
Workshare
Workshare, for iPhone or iPad
Have you ever been working on a story late at the office and wanted
to finish it at home, but you lost (or forgot) your USB stick? At that
point, your typical options—emailing it to yourself or popping it in
Dropbox—are easy enough but perhaps not safe enough if you’re dealing
with confidential or sensitive files.
Workshare will
alleviate this issue with mobile app and syncing functionality in the
beginning of 2013. With this solution, employees will be able to
synchronize files between the Workshare platform and any mobile device,
which is more important than ever in our age of BYOD. Workshare also
helps employees collaborate more readily from the road with real-time
insight into file updates, comments and access for all collaborating
parties on any device, from any location.
4.
Evernote for Business, from Evernote
This mature multi-platform note taking application is now in its fifth version, which includes upgraded functionality in
Evernote for
Business, at a price of $10 per user per month. For many companies that
rely on collaboration, the simplified billing, enhanced support and
additional Business Notebook features in this iTunes classic make the
application a “must upgrade” product for 2013.
DropBox now provides a version for teams
5.
Dropbox for Teams
Moving from
Dropbox to
Dropbox for Teams
is another wise consideration for 2013. Enhanced sharing options and
integrated file revision history are two of the additional features in
“Teams” that make the increasingly popular Dropbox, super powerful for
businesses and teams. Some organizations are considering this option as
an alternative to traditional file server storage for files.
6.
RabbleBrowser for iPad, from Float MobileLearning
Rabble Browser, for iPad
This iPad application makes sharing URLs, files and anything stored
on Dropbox easy to do. With RabbleBrowser, any number of iPads in a
conference or meeting room can instantly chat or share a browsing
session. The app streamlines conversations by allowing everyone to see
the same things together without having to type out confusing web
addresses or email attachments.
RabbleBrowser is available for $1.99 from the iTunes Store.
7.
Tappestry for Organizations, from Float MobileLearning
Tappestry for Organizations, from Float Mobile Learning
A newcomer in the social field,
Tappestry is a bit different than the social tools such as
Yammer or
Salesforce Chatter.
Tappestry was built for sharing knowledge and to learn new information.
It integrates with many of the traditional technologies human resources
and learning departments use. Tappestry supports iPhones and iPads and
costs $.99 per topic or $5.99 for unlimited topics from the iTunes
Store.
8.
StratPad v2, from Glassey Technologies Inc.
StratPad v2, from Glassey Technologies
In 2013,
StratPad v2 promises to take strategy out
of the boardroom and put it on the desktop of everybody in the company.
StratPad premiered as an iPad app in 2012 and quickly became the
highest rated app of its kind in the iTunes App Store, developers say.
It’s the first iPad app to be integrated with
Yammer,
allowing people to collaborate on strategic business planning activities
online in real time. Customers who love StratPad have asked the company
to develop a Web version so that everyone in their companies, including
those who don’t have iPads, can use it. StratPad v2 for SMBs will ship
in spring 2013. It promises to synchronize files in real time across all
devices. For example, if you update a business plan on your iPad or
Surface, it will automatically update on your desktop as well. In
addition to generating the reports businesses need to execute and
monitor their strategy, the product also tracks results with a business
intelligence tool that graphs KPIs, trendlines and targets.
StratPad
is currently available on the iPad in a basic version for free and in
paid editions ranging from US$9.99 to $54.99.
9.
UX Write for the iPad and iPhone, from UXProductivity.com
UX Write for the iPad and iPhone
UX Write is the first fully-featured word processor
for the iPad, developers maintain.
Because many entrepreneurs are rarely
in their offices, they find dealing with large complex documents from
their iPads quite difficult. UX Write is designed to bring the powerful
word processing capabilities of desktop systems to the iPad and iPhone.
It handles high-end professional authoring tasks such as creating books,
reports, research papers, and theses, for a surprisingly economical
price of $14.99 and is available in the iTunes Store, 10.
Speaktoit, from Speaktoit.com
Speaktoit, from Speaktoit.com
Speaktoit is the top-rated
virtual assistant for
Android or iOS/Windows, but will be targeting
productivity for business
users in 2013. Speaktoit was a top 10
NY Times App of the Year in 2012, but is adding specific features for workers in early 2013.
Top new capabilities include the following:
- Calendar/meeting scheduling: Business people can schedule
meetings with their voice through their Assistant (the app is linked to
your calendar). Speaktoit will remind users of their agenda for a given
day every morning, by speaking to them. Speaktoit will also give
business people reminders, as necessary, about their schedule. If you
have “Meetings in Dallas” on the calendar, for example, the Speaktoit
Assistant can remind you to book flights, hotels, etc.
- Stock exchange and other financial news/information: Speaktoit
will be
partnering with financial news services to provide automatic
updates and
notifications on stock quotes and market news as part of
users’ customized
briefings each day.
Have I provided you with at least a few new ideas? I hope so. I
welcome your additional ideas and thoughts—and I invite you to join me
and the entire
Fishbowl team in making 2013 a year to remember. Thank you for reading!
Author: David K. Williams
Here,
http://fortunefair.blogspot.com,
we will always preach the power of PRODUCTIVE LIVING and of creating MULTIPLE
STREAMS OF INCOME as a way to protect your profits. Keep coming back to the
blog as we keep on identifying the best methods, unique strategies, effective
techniques to earn unlimited income from paid to click, surf, read, promote and
sign up excellent passive income sources. These are revolutionary ways to make
money online. We select, review and recommend to our associates the best PTC
paying sites.
In a nutshell, we are helping thousands of people worldwide become their own
boss from their own home.
The best part is No matter how much experience
you have online you can make money month after month! So, Stay subscribed for more-make-money tips &
tricks...
Have you already joined the sites
from this link?
No comments:
Post a Comment