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Ping.fm has a wordpress plugin & yes, forgive me, i’m excited.
If you haven’t used Ping.fm, it essentially a way for you to send one message out to update your status on multiple social networks like twitter, facebook, friendfeed…
The idea behind the plugin is simple, write your blog - and ping.fm will automatically send out a message to all your subscribed social networks & notify them. Why am I excited? Well, anything that makes my that little bit slicker is a big plus for me.
The PingPress.fm Plugin is a must have for anyone who hosts their own Wordpress blog and uses multiple social networks.
Tumblr, the great tumblelog/blogging platform has launched the beta of their latest update.
They announced the news on their company blog & are looking for feedback. In my opinion, I can’t see much improvement & it definitely feels a little off in terms of styling..but hey, those are just my personal thoughts.
To check out the beta, just login with your normal login details at www.tumblr-beta.com.
Being an outliner fan, I am constantly looking for new & better online options to compete with the beloved Omni Outliner for the Mac (who have just released a newer version by the way). Why I love outliners so much & find them so useful - i’ll explain in another post. For this post however, I’d like to give a good overview of what’s out there at the moment & what, I believe, you should be using.
If you’re not familiar with outliners, they are typically used for collecting and/or organising notes, todo lists, codes and/or ideas - and are called Outliners because they are organised in outline fashion or as a tree-like structure. Still unsure? Read on - you’ll soon get the idea!
Sproutliner
Potentially a great but currently out of date, unsecure to use on their site (which really is just for demo purposes) - the downloadable currently open source version needs a major update before I would recommend usage in any sort of work environment.
No import or export or strong collaborative sharing functionality. Fast & great use of shortcuts but all in all best to give this one a miss until someone decides to give it an update.
Todoist
What I currently use as my todo list - although I may be moving. It’s undoubtedly a great tool, superb use of keyboard shortcuts, fast, gmail integration, quicksilver & launchy integration, igoogle/netvibes gadget & mac/yahoo widgets. Drag & drop works brilliantly. Great search facility, however only available on premium subscription which is only $3 a month. This also brings a cool tagging feature & reminders.
No easy way to import or export. I can’t embed images or video into it which is frustrating. Mass changing of tasks / lists is difficult. No mobile/iphone version & no sharing/collaborative features. My major qualm is the little new added features recently & are a bunch of requests- no surprise considering the developer is lead developer at Plurk.
Checkvist
New to the game is checkvist & it looks very promising - potentially a bigger & better todoist. Ability to create multiple outlines very easily. Clean & simple to use. Ability to share outlines & strong commenting feature which makes it ultra special in my book. You can embed images or video into it which is very cool. Currently no due dates or other add-ons (email/calendar integrations) - but it’s early days, they just launched 5 days ago! …Click Here to Read The Full Post »
For the conference & public speakers out there comes a new “backchannel” tool which is designed to help you gather feedback from your audience.
Twitter has definitely come in particularly handy in this case & is a superb way to monitor general conversation & feedback - but how about a tool specifically designed for it…well, in steps Text the Mob.
Text the Mob gives you the facility to create a poll or discussion board - which can then be projected onto your screen, presumably behind you. Your audience are then able to text a given number with their thoughts and these results are project immediately on the screen.
Aside from the usefulness factor, I believe this could transform the stereotypical image of conferences being boring & dull - into genuinely interesting, great interactive experiences.
Try it out at Text The Mob.
I don’t know about you, but I take the wordpress admin design pretty seriously. I don’t think I would even use wordpress if their admin area is drastically better than the majority of other blogging platforms out there. Above all however, using a blogging platform that exudes elegance actually make the blogging process feel a lot smoother, slicker & definitely enhances the creative senses.
Anyhow, so I want to take a moment to show you a few of the better options out there:
1. Fluency Admin: (Download or Visit Site)
2. A Tiger-Adminstration (Download or Visit Site)
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