ThinkAccelerator Marketing

As we grew ThinkAccelerator, I began to explore new ways and new tools to make my life, my employees and my business more productive. Here I share some of the tools I have used personally and with clients , exploiting the advances in mobile and cloud computing for better collaboration and instantaneous availability.

First is Evernote

This is almost my second brain as I use this to store everything I read online, offline and even pictures. Here’s why it’s so incredible and is one of the fastest growing company in this space of note taking.

• You can take notes quickly on your computer, your phone and even on anyone’s computer using the web. It is all synced and you get to see the same note you just entered on your phone on your PC when you get back to office!
• You can clip any pages or documents you see and it is stored and searchable. So imagine reading an article (like this one) and you think “hmmm…that’s interesting, I like that part of the article”, you can just clip it and store it on Evernote. Try it now, just click that “Clip” elephant button and you will be able to clip this article to Evernote. You will be asked to sign up for a free account which is really easy.
• You can take pictures and it recognizes words in your pictures that you can search for it. I’ve used it to scan namecards, products and even articles from magazines.
• You can record voice and notes! This is really a godsend for busy people who have to deal with a lot of information daily and want to have a place that can store and search easily. I used to have all kinds of folders and after a while, it became unwieldy. With smartphones like iPhone that’s connected to the internet cloud all the time, this tool really makes it truly useful for organizing information.

Next tool is Dropbox.

Have you ever needed to share large documents with your colleagues or clients and the email just doesn’t want to deliver it? Or you have so many versions of the same files that you guys are working on that you lost track which version is the latest?

Or you have so many files e.g photos, presentation , video for a project that you wish it sat on one place that both internal staff and client can access. Most companies only have a shared fileserver that internal staff can access but not for collaborating with external partners or clients. There it becomes clumsy with thumb drives, multiple  email attachments or some even cut CDs!

Now is the time for cloud storage and this tool , Dropbox gives you 2GB FREE.  Just download the app and it appears as a folder on your computer. You drag and drop files and they sync to the cloud. You can share selective directories with different people for various projects. You can even track versions of files that are modified.

I use this to share working docs, spreadsheets, presentations, photos, videos with my clients and partners. And I can even access them on my iPhone!

Just get it here or click on the Dropbox picture above to get your FREE 2B online storage. It works like a dream.