Otter: It will record your meetings and transcribe immediately. Live transcription.
Genius Scan: You take a picture of a piece of paper, it binds the edges, takes out all the bumps, makes it look like you ran it through a scanner.
Crystal: The site is crystalknows.com. What crystal does is it goes into people’s social media, descriptions and writings to tell you what their personality is in one of 64 personality types using the DiSC profile. It's between $29 and $49 a month for you to have access. It's a great LinkedIn plugin. You can go to LinkedIn and immediately when you see people, it will analyze their personality. Some people it doesn't have a lot of data on it. They'll tell you that. And some people it'll have lots on and will nail their personalities. Plus the Gmail plugin, while you're writing them an email, it will say, “Don't use an emoticon with this person, that's too much information for this person at one time. End with a question for this person.” And that'll coach on how to connect with them.
Voicea: It’s a recording tool, and you can highlight different areas. My favorite part is the word cloud. It analyzes your entire conversation, and it comes up with a word cloud to show you what you have discussed most. You can search for each word. It’s free for up to 25 minutes and then it's like $8 a month or something like that for a longer meetings. You get the transcription automatically. If you had a conversation with a future client and you listened to what they were saying and you recorded it through here, that word cloud will help you see what they're most concerned about.
Animoto: It took me about five minutes, maybe three, to take pictures, a couple of video clips, choose a theme, a song and press a button. My record is 91 seconds to grab a whole bunch of pictures and make a video. It’s free for the basic version that you can get on your phone.
Temi: A closed-captioning app. It’s 10 cents a minute, but it’s automated so it’s only good for really clear audio.
Rocketbook: A cloud-connected, reusable notebook. It's a real notebook where you write real notes. It does handwriting recognition if you've got pretty good handwriting.
Video recording for email: BombBomb, Dubb, Loom
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Swipes: Task-list management: One swipe to the right, you can postpone, one swipe to the left, it's done. You can build details and notes inside of it as an online element you can do from the desktop, and then the rest of it runs from the phone.
CommiTo3: A way to focus on three commitments you'll make and things you'll accomplish each day. So you at least focus and lead the day knowing you've done a couple of good things.
Beth Ziesenis has been featured on best speaker lists by Meetings & Conventions magazine and MeetingsNet. Since her first Commodore 64 computer, Zeisenis has made a verb out of the word nerd. She helps computer users all over the country filter through thousands of apps and gadgets to find the perfect free and bargain technology tools for business and personal use.