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During the news:rewired conference last week, Ezra Eeman of Journalism Tools gave delegates a list of essential tools journalists should be aware of when creating enganging content for their audiences. Some of these tools can be applied directly to text-based articles to add a multimedia element and, overall, a more colorful story.
There are 50,000 news apps every month, not counting new web online tools found around the internet which journalists can use, said Eeman, and it can be quite difficult to sift through them....
Whether you’re editing videos, looking for quick ways to get news, building a social media contest, or simply making your pages more visually appealing, these tools can help.
We’re stuck in an awkward spot. We can manufacture nearly any 3-D product we’d like. But these objects are trapped behind the 2-D computer screen we design them in.
One solution is to 3-D print a plastic mock up. A more efficient solution is a new working concept called Gravity Sketch. It’s essentially a 3-D notebook. You put on a pair of video glasses, grab the stylus, and hold a tablet in your hand. Then you draw your creation in 3-D space using augmented reality--the glasses, pen, and tablet work in concert to create a digital illusion that your drawing is floating right there in front of you. But you're literally drawing on a 2-D surface....
Check out 11 social media management software apps which can help you save some time on social media.
Are you interested in changing the social media management software app that you use?
There are literally hundreds of social media management tools available in the marketplace and it’s difficult to choose which one would be the most suitable. So we have picked out 11 of the very best for you to consider...
Producing web content goes hand in hand with successful brand marketing these days — but can be tricky without a go-to development person or team.
This is where fast, easy, convenient apps and other headache-free tech tools come to the rescue. When chosen wisely, they can help time-strapped entrepreneurs dominate their jam-packed schedules and take back their time, shoring up more of it to focus on what’s really important -- growing their business and boosting their bottom line.
Exactly what are today’s most effective go-to apps and tech solutions for busy entrepreneurs? Which ones are the best for tracking social media marketing campaigns? Which are ideal for slaying to-do lists? Mastering scheduling? Accepting customer payments? Staying on top of the latest industry news?...
What's your story? Adobe's brilliant new Voice app, released Thursday, is designed to help you answer that question. Here's our review.
When you first launch Voice, you’re presented with a quick tutorial video about the app. Its basic tenet: Vocals are key. When you create anything in Voice, you start by laying down a short audio recording. You can then add royalty-free clipart, photos, or text (or all three), and blend it with some backing music....
Earlier this year, Dan Pink shared in one of his newsletters about how he uses text expanders to dramatically reduce the amount of time he spends replying to e-mail. I’m not the most tech-savvy person, but the idea of having short abbreviations for frequently typed text appealed to me. So I started using a text expander this summer and was AMAZED at how easy it was to use and how much easier it made responding to frequently asked questions.
As I often do when I find something to be of great benefit, I started telling everyone who would listen (even some who wouldn’t!) about it. But I found that few people were giving text expanders a try because they either were concerned they would be too complicated or didn’t see the value. I completely understand those concerns so I thought I would outline the simple 3-step process....
Banana Republic and Susan’s Neighborhood Shirt Shop could be using the same social networks—Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc.—but their marketing plans and their marketing tools are likely quite different. Enterprise solutions are great for the big guys, but the rest of us are in the market for something more our size.
Small businesses are eager to find valuable tools that take a lot of the time and trouble out of social media marketing and that do so without costing an arm and a leg. I think we’d all want tools like that, right? Well, I went searching for just this kind of simple, easy, cost-effective tool, and I came up with 61 that made the cut. I tried out more than 100 in total, and I’m sure I missed a few along the way (please tell me in the comments or on Twitter which ones deserve a look)....
Earlier today I received a request, via the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page, for suggestions for online image editing tools.
My first recommendation was Pixlr from Autodesk. In the list below you can read more about Pixlr and nine other good options for enhancing, cropping, and creating images online....
Social media related activities can take up hours of your time.And let’s face it, your time is precious.
Fortunately there are plenty of tools on the market that can help save you time when it comes to managing your social media marketing.
By utilizing these types of tools correctly you can spend more time doing other things that can help your business.In this post I am going to show you a selection of these tools that cover off a number of different social activities that you can use to boost your productivity...
Our digital marketing agency spends hours each week auditing prospective client’s websites to see how SEO friendly they are. So, I’m constantly on the look out for the best website audit tools that will make my life easier.
After auditing 100’s of websites and specific web pages, I’ve come up with my top 5 free website audit tools that your digital marketing agency should consider, especially if you sell SEO or web design services. I’ve listed each one below, along with why I think they are the best...
You are a small business owner, finding yourself struggling and losing temper between your daily tasks, it's almost like nothing is moving forward....I’m still in a bit of a shock after finding out that there are roughly 16M new websites launched every month. That adds up to 200M every year, and of course the number is growing as the years ago by. You know what else is growing? The amount of tools that we see launching and developing for not only bloggers or webmaster, but also small business and their owners.The whole term marketing is very broad and includes a ton of sub-niches, but the general idea behind having a set of tools for a business that are essential is fairly simple. You need the basic tool-set to always have things like statistics and the ability to engage with users at your disposal...
The Aesop Story Engine is one of the most beautiful tools for WordPress that I’ve seen in a long time. Named for Aesop, the master story teller whose fables are woven into our cultural consciousness, this engine provides a powerful suite of multimedia storytelling tools. The Aesop Story Engine plugin was created to be a foundation for building feature-rich, interactive, long-form storytelling themes for WordPress.
The engine powers the Aesop Hosted Storytelling site where users can create stories for free. The Aesop development team has released it as an open source WordPress plugin, making it possible for you to add the same storytelling capabilities to your own website....
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"A free HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews. Useful for journalists, academics and anyone else transcribing audio."
"Transcribe is a free, open-source web app which allows you to easily transcribe your video by using a very simple interface.
You first upload your audio file and on the same web page you can start typing your transcription, while being able to easily start / stop the audio and to rewind or forward to any point you need to without ever needing to leave the keyboard...."
Via Robin Good
Services like Twitter, Dropbox, YouTube, or Wikipedia love to release official apps for their services. More often than not, third-party developers swoop in to make better apps to access those services than the official ones. We want to collect together the best of those apps.
Third-party apps are often some of our favorites and in some respects, blow the official app away. Twitter is a perfect example of when the official apps are rarely even worth mentioning when the third-party ones are so much better. So, let's figure out which apps are truly the best....
I've been on the hunt for the best Chrome setup for my content marketing role. No longer do I care about the optimal configurations for my desktop, I want to know how I can make the most of the app where I spend 98 percent of my workday: my web browser.
The following tutorial shares the Chrome settings, features and extensions that I've come to rely on as a marketer at one time or another. It will teach you not only how to begin to make the most of Chrome itself, but introduce you to more than a two-dozen add-ons that will add efficiency to your everyday marketing efforts....
There is a lot of social media software tools available but which are the best ones? Find out what the social media tool providers think.
We come across great tools on a regular basis. One of my favorite recent ones is OptinMonster which is a WordPress plugin that helps build email subscribers. I switched it off a couple of weeks ago and seen a massive drop in subscribers. It’s awesome.
Of course, the tool providers all think that their own tool is the best, but which other tools do they like?
In this post, we asked the founders of various social media tools to tell us their favorite tools with only one condition… they could not pick their own tools.
Easily Create online Presentations, animations, animated HTML5 banners, infographics and other rich visual content free in your browser.
Transform otherwise boring data into engaging visuals that will turn heads and get the point across.
Get Voices.com on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Voices.com is the marketplace where brands connect with professional voice-over talent.
With Voices.com, you can post jobs, review responses and hire voice talent for audio and video productions....
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
...To address this use case, we created Vellum. Vellum acts as a reading list for your Twitter feed, finding all the links that are being shared by those you follow on Twitter and displaying them each with their full titles and descriptions. This flips the Twitter model, treating the links as primary and the commentary as secondary (you can still see all the tweets about each link, but they are less prominent). Vellum puts a spotlight on content, making it easy to find what you should read next.
We also wanted to include signals about what might be most important to read right now, so links are ranked by how often they have been shared by those you follow on Twitter, allowing you to stay informed about the news your friends and colleagues are discussing most.
Vellum was built as a quick experiment, but as we and other groups within The New York Times have been using it over the past few months, it has proven to be an invaluable tool for using Twitter as a content discovery interface. So today we are opening up Vellum to the public. We hope you find it as useful as we have. Happy reading!...
...There’s nothing wrong with the classic tools; they just aren’t the latest ones. So I turned to Ben Wirz, who a couple of digital lifetimes ago joined Knight as director of business consulting. Ben helps lead the Knight Enterprise Fund, which invests in startup companies.
Here are his notes on tools journalists and news organizations should try....
Clipping Magic: Online image mask generator lets you instantly create masks, cutouts, and clipping paths online.
AEvery second, 9,100 tweets are sent. In a given day, 55 million status updates are made on Facebook. Those are just two examples illustrating the volume of content and activity occurring in social media. By the time you are finished reading this, those statistics will probably have changed.
People often ask me about my activity in social media and how I manage all the content that I see and share, as well as how I manage my networks across a number of social channels. Let me be clear that I can’t handle all of the content and I can’t engage everyone in my networks all the time. Nobody can. You have to adopt the mindset that you will read, share, manage or engage with whatever and whomever you can and not trouble yourself with the overflow..
Happy February! Many bloggers are in the midst of school, work, and/or NYFW prep. If you’re in Seattle like me, you are probably gearing up to cheer on our Seahawks in the Super Bowl parade today!
Now that we’re back in the grind, how are your resolutions coming along? One that I’m continuing to work on is being more efficient with my time on the computer – so I can spend that time enjoying life away from the digital world. On the never-ending quest to be more organized and productive, here are a few tools I use regularly that help me get the job done efficiently, whether that’s note-taking, reading all the articles I find, and clearing out the digital clutter...
...Finding the right methods to make a business run smoothly can sometimes be the most difficult part.
Luckily, in today’s business world, there are apps for almost any business strategy an entrepreneur needs to perform, including the need to share files, run a conference call, scan documents, and manage general tasks.
Following are the top 11 apps available for entrepreneurs....
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5 tools worth looking at for journalists, PR and marketing pros.