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Online Voice Recorder is a free simple application which records sound from microphone. After recording you can trim the sound and save it to your computer. Via Nik Peachey
Jeff Domansky's insight:
This looks like a very cool tool and useful for audio clips. H/T Nik Peachey 
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...Over the last few days I’ve been playing with Truth, a similar app for iOS that lets you send anonymous text messages to people in your phone’s contacts. The interface is a close facsimile of Apple’s default Messages app, so there isn’t much of a learning curve. There is a bit of friction to get started with the app, however: besides the expected popups asking for permission to access your contacts, Truth also makes you register with an email address and password. ...That quibble with the setup process aside, Truth works as advertised. You can choose any contact in your address book to send an anonymous text, and in several tests, messages arrive in about as much time as they would via a regular text. Messages begin with “The truth is” by default, which is meant to inspire compliments or hard truths that might be too awkward to express openly....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Just thinking of the challenges and potential for abuse of such a tool and yet maybe useful for politicians LOL...
Jakarta Web Developer's curator insight,
August 18, 2014 1:08 AM
Truth Lets You Send Anonymous Texts
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Create interactive images with multiple soundbites using this free iOS app
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Interesting tool worth exploring if you're looking to add a new dimension to your blog posts and visuals.
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Clipping Magic: Online image mask generator lets you instantly create masks, cutouts, and clipping paths online.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Of course not as good as commercial tools but a serviceable tool for quick and dirty photo masks or cutouts. Thanks to @IanCleary for sharing.
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Social media marketing doesn’t need to be a million piece puzzle; in fact, to assume that the miniature of any marketing is static in the modern sense is a sure fire way to de-rank and undervalue any contribution your campaigns may be making to your bottom line. Online media is one of those do or die industries, where twenty four hours can change everything you know about the realm, marking roles as redundant or secondary the moment an algorithm change sweeps through. The Top 3 Free Online Tools to Manage your Social Media Marketing Minimising costs becomes a priority, as more and more tools are launched onto the market and you’re caught between signing away a few thousand dollars a month to measure metrics essential to retaining clients; suddenly, your tabulated figures and marginal financial increases don’t seem quite as exciting....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Here are three valuable free social marketing tools to help you work more efficiently.
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LinkedIn is the undisputed leader for business and career-oriented social networking. Some claim it is too boring, too plaid, but the network quietly simmers away in the background serving the needs of job seekers and business owners. I am a heavy user of the service and regularly search for tools that will make it even more profitable for my blogging and content company. I explored 35-plus tools in a post at Small Business Trends (where I’m the tech product review editor): 35 LinkedIn Tools For Business. I pull out some of my favorites here and found a few extras that I thought you might value. If you are not out shopping on this Black Friday, Gray Saturday, or whatever color day, take some time to amp up your LinkedIn presence....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Excellent additions to your social media toolbox.
Ali Anani's curator insight,
December 1, 2013 12:48 AM
An excellent post on how to amp up your presence on LinkedIn
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Adobe’s Photoshop is the gold standard when it comes to photo-editing software – the preferred tool for many graphic designers and photographers. But many of the complex features that once only a Photoshop pro could do, can now be achieved using basic, free software that comes with your computer or downloaded from the Web. Think cropping, resizing, color adjustments, filters, red-eye removal, and automatic enhancements. In fact, a lot of useful photo-editing features are built into online photo-sharing sites like Google+ and Flickr. However, what if you want to quickly apply one or two effects without having to become a Photoshop guru? We’ve found and tested a few online alternatives that won’t require you to fire up any photo-editing apps....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
These are really useful tools for bloggers, web writers and other content producers.
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
September 13, 2013 7:12 PM
GREAT post and Rescoop by Karen, one of the best storytellers around and willing to teach and share. Glad to know there are options other than paying hundreds to use a tool I will never scratch the surface of since all I need is simple photoediting for my blogs. 
Bart van Maanen's curator insight,
September 14, 2013 5:38 AM
Goede afbeeldingen op websites zijn van groot belang. Ze worden gewaardeeerd door je bezoekers, ze helpen bij SEO en vindbaarheid in zoekmachines.
Ik schreef daar al eerder een blog over (http://www.beeldbedrijf.nl/2011/afbeeldingen-optimaliseren-website/).
Maar wat als je geen Photoshop of andere software hebt? Er zijn best veel online bewerkings tools en er komen steeds nieuwe bij. In dit artikel een selectie van online programma's waarmee je foto's en afbeeldingen kan schalen, verkleinen, uitsnijden, effecten toevoegen.
Zoek er 1 uit die het beste bij je werkzaamheden past en laat horen wat je ervan vindt.
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When Google announced it was making its popular Google Reader service redundant this summer, it left millions in need of a new way to read and subscribe to their favourite web content. Step forward Flipboard, a digital social magazine that has quickly become an App Store favourite. Now in its second iteration, Flipboard has been boosted by a new personalised magazine creation tool that enables users to create their own custom magazine based on whatever they fancy. Since its launch, the second version of Flipboard has amassed a further three million users to the service, and has already seen over 500,000 personalised magazines published....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
It's now possible to read and share your favourite news stories in a glossy magazine-like interface using Flipboard 2.0 for iPhone, iPad or Android. This post shows you how to create your own web magazine in six simple steps.
Amrit Chhetri's comment,
August 12, 2013 2:04 PM
Flipboard 2.0 for Android is an amazing Mobile App. You can read all news streams including your Facebook feeds, conversations and posting on Twitter, Google Plus etc and can subscribe more than 10,000 Magazines available for FREE subscription from Flipboard. It leverages an option for creating own Flipboard Magazine by taping the contents from all sources- Facebook, News Feed, RSS, Google Plus and Twitter- available on Flipboard. It also allows to share the Flipboard Magazines and contents to different Social Networks including Twitter. Its user-experience is very smooth and easy. It is also available on Web, iOS, WP and BlackBerry OS.
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Do you need better tools to help you manage yoursocial media marketing? Automating some of the more repetitive tasks related to social media can help you be more productive and efficient with the execution of your social media strategy. To save you time and improve your marketing efforts, I’ll show you three social media tools that will deliver your content efficiently.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Ian Cleary shares three social media tools to get you working efficiently: Post Planner for Facebook; Zapier to automate key apps/channels; Dlvr.it to auto-post to your social channels. All worth exploring and very well-explained by Cleary.
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They say the only constant in life is change— that aptly applies to social media, when the latest trends can go the way of the Dodo in mere days....... I’ve spent the past few years researching hundreds of sites, and have even compiled my findings in a book: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Social Media, But Were Afraid to Ask … Building Business Using Consumer Generated Media. Since then, I’ve been a “student” of social media. Here are some of the newest social-networking platforms and apps that I’ve come across, many of which may help you...
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Even though I create nearly all of my documents online and use cloud storage services that support a multitude of file formats, there are still a few occasions when someone sends me a file that I need to convert. If your school is not using Google Drive, Dropbox, or a similar cloud service, you may find yourself and your students in need of a file conversion tool too. A more common need for a file conversion tool arises when we start to work with audio and video files. Here are five good online file conversion tools....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Essential for your social media toolbox
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What if we stopped trying quite so hard with our video content marketing? What if we just told our true stories honestly and simply, and with empathy for the very real problems our customers have? A video from a tiny Arizona startup busts some common myths about using video as part of a content marketing program. There are three other things to love about it, too....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Ann Handley has a great case study and story about marketing by video. And it's also highlights an app worth exploring.
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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....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Really great list of alternative apps with a few brand new to me and some excellent new finds.
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Here is a collection of 10 apps that are beautifully designed, solve a problem, entertain and have a very promising future. Get inspired by the leaders of tomorrow.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
You may find something app appropriate here LOL.
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As a student the importance of planning a story before writing it was driven into my head. Then when I became a teacher, I drove that same message home to my students. Here are five free tools that students can use to plan and outline their stories.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Richard Byrne shares great resources. Don't be afraid to explore these for marketing and PR too! OPf particular interest is Amazon Studios/Storybuilder.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
December 20, 2013 7:44 PM
Check out these five tools but pay attention to Amazon Studios/Storybuilder.
Ali Anani's curator insight,
December 21, 2013 12:36 AM
Since there is a "student" in each of us, I find this post even relevant to re-learners.
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A primer on the photosharing service that Facebook reportedly offered to buy for $3 billion. .... How does Snapchat actually work? Once you've found your friends on Snapchat, you can simply start taking pictures and sending them out to as many friends as you want.The app has a couple of distinguishing features in terms of photo taking. One, users can draw on their photos. So that's funny sometimes. Two, you can caption any photo. Three, you get to set how long — from 1-10 seconds — the photograph will be visible to receivers. Crucially, too, the app tells you when your snaps are opened by the receiver. You know they saw it....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
In-depth look at app success story Snapchat.
Social media test's curator insight,
December 9, 2013 6:33 PM
The new trend: small talk and short attention spans. 
Henry Lee's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 8:59 PM
Basically Snapchat enables people to send pictures or videos, which self-destruct, to people in their network. I believe this type of app is ideal for sharing sensitive information. For example, Kim and Vi have proposed a social media learning strategy for medical residents that may contain highly sensitive PII information. Snapchat may be the perfect tool to support this learning strategy aside from building an entirely new information sharing program.
Jamie Grooms's curator insight,
October 25, 2015 5:11 PM
Obviously SnapChat is a great app for long distance couples. Send funny pictures, or serious ones to your significant other. Share your day through photos. Article by Alexis C. Madrigal.
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With YouTube Chad Hurley and Steve Chen made publishing videos easy. Now they want to make it just as easy to create them.When Google wanted to boost the quality of YouTube’s content, it gave out $5 million in grants to select creators. YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who sold the service to Google in 2006, are now tackling the same problem, but with a different philosophy. They hope that a new app they are launching on Thursday, called MixBit, will make shooting quality video scalable and accessible to everyone.“Unfortunately I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content,” Hurley told Fast Company. “I can understand, it’s great to stimulate the community and make money available to them. But I feel that’s a more traditional approach to solving the problem. It’s basically replicating the studio model...I’m looking for something that doesn’t necessarily alienate any group of people, but gives them all equal access. ”That apparently includes people who never shoot any video. With MixBit, as with Instagram video and Vine, users touch their phones’ screens to take multiple video clips that the app combines into one video. But only MixBit allows other people to use those clips, if they’re public, in their own videos....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Video disruption or video democracy ahead? Interesting new tool.
Kristie Chiles's curator insight,
October 20, 2014 5:59 PM
Youtube is constantly evolving and coming up with new ways to publish videos - love it!
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Create Epic Stories with Shorthand... New storytelling tool for journalists, writers and creative people looks very promising. It's in beta and is definitely worth exploring.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
I'll update once I've had the chance to try Shorthand out.
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As an entrepreneur, I look to others to tell me about the latest apps, time-savers, hacks, and tricks. However, no female founders were interviewed. So I decided to do one with all women. Below is just a small sampling of the great female entrepreneurs and some of the apps--business and otherwise--that they can't live without.I culled a list of some kick-butt women entrepreneurs whom I look up to and a few I'm lucky enough to know. Clearly, I have a lot of downloading to do....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
This is a really excellent last with a lot new-to-me apps worth checking out...
cyn's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 10:51 AM
Interesting collection of tools, and insight by the users. 
Phil Lauterjung's curator insight,
July 11, 2013 10:44 AM
This is really good list with some known and unknown apps that are very, very helpful. What would you add to the list? Any really good finds that they left off?
Ruby | Social Success Marketing's curator insight,
July 29, 2013 7:01 PM
These are great tools to check out for businesses who wanted to stay on top of different things - from notes, to emails to vids, etc.
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Robin Good: Readlists is a simple web app which allows you to easily create curated lists of web resources, articles and links and bundle them to a downloadable eBook.
To create a "Readlist" you simply click on the Create a Readlist button and add one url at a time. The system gently grabs metadata info like title and author and elegatly lays it out in an ebook formatted reading index ready to be published.
The service is free to use.
Try it out now: http://readlists.com
[This is is cool tool for readers, researchers, PR pros - JD] Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello
Ken Morrison's comment,
May 27, 2012 1:39 AM
Thank you. THis was helpful. I really enjoyed the great commencement speech one!
Ken
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
June 29, 2013 9:53 PM
Create an e-book from your reading list. Very cool! |
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This looks like a very cool tools for recording, editing and sharing audio clips. H/T Nik Peachey.
No registration needed, that's nice!