Amid the Noise and Haste

Tools that Make Blogging Easier

Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing posted awhile ago about a few desktop tools you can use that make it easier to blog.  Here are the ones he mentioned:

• ScribeFire Firefox extension - officially not exactly a desktop client as it works inside of Firefox (I use this and I find it very easy to use)
  
• Windows Live Writer - a great tool and part of the growing Windows Office Live offering
  
• ecto for MacOSX and Windows - created for Mac users and still the king

Basically, these tools let you blog directly from your desktop without logging in to your blog.  I like using ScribeFire because I can click on an icon and it opens up a window on the bottom half of my screen.  This allows me to see what I am blogging about in the top half (see below):

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Friday Fun: Left Brain vs Right Brain

Are you a "big picture" oriented thinker with spacial perception and maybe a little impetuous?  Or, are you detail oriented, practical and more reality based?  Steven Levitt from the Freakonomics Blog points us to Marginal Revolution to find out.  Which way is the dancer spinning; clockwise or counter-clockwise?  Your answer will tell you which side of the brain you tend to use.

My question is, if I stare long enough I can actually change the direction I see.  So does that mean I'm a little left brained and a little right?  Or, am I just out of my mind?


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on Customers

From Julie Fleischer at Forrester's Marketing Blog:

"I keep hearing people ask how much control we should give our customers.
What they don't realize is our customers have already taken control and
we'll never have it back"

So true!

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So true!

Google Helps Sort Through the Noise and Haste

Google is a handy resource and we are pointed to some of the helpful tools you can use on a daily basis by two of my favorite blogs, Common Craft and Business Opportunities Blog.

First, Common Craft has released their video about using Google Docs, Google Docs in Plain English which you can watch here:

Click To Play

Next up, the folks at the Business Opportunities Blog gives us a list of 15 iGoogle gadgets to help with productivity.  Here are the first 5 gadgets provided:

1. Today List
2. iReminder
3. Time sheet recorder
4. Google Analytics
5. Google Services

To find out more about these tools and to read the rest of the list, visit the Business Opportunities Blog.


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Travel Amid the Noise and Haste

John Jantsch over at Duct Tap Marketing has alerted us to a new handy little resource called TripIt.  What does it do?  According to John:  "TripIt allows you to organize these details and does it in simple fashion."  How does it work?  It looks quite simple:

If you've used it, I would love to hear from you.

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