Bonni Stachowiak is a
professor in the School of Business and
Management for Vanguard University of Southern
California, where she teaches courses in
business, marketing, leadership, and human
resources. She is also the president and founder
of Innovate Learning. She has over 15 years of
business experience and prior to transitioning
to academic roles and consulting opportunities,
she held executive positions in human resources
and learning for franchise and education
organizations.
Delicious
social bookmarking tool – keep your favorites with you @
all times, regardless of which computer you’re on. Share
with others. FREE.
Remember the Milk
absolutely the best way to keep track of your tasks.
Simple to use and grows with you as you learn more. My
favorite tip is to empty those emails in your in box
that require more than a couple of minutes of follow up
by forwarding them to your own personal rememberthemilk
email address. Works well with the Getting Things Done
system, not to mention any of the others I can think of…
FREE or go pro for life for $25 and get the incredible
iPhone app & more.
Jott
turn your voice into text. Set reminders. Add contacts.
Integrates flawlessly with RememberTheMilk, among many
other online productivity tools. FREE.
Picnic
online photo editing application. Add text to photos.
Effects. Resize and/or crop to a specific size with just
a couple clicks. Save in multiple formats. FREE.
LibraryThing
track your personal library and much, much more. It
links in with my FaceBook account, too, which I love.
FREE for up to 200 books, $25 for life.
Snagit
the world’s greatest screen capture tool – it doesn’t
get much better than this – and yet it keeps getting
better all the time. Around $50, if it is your first go
at it – download a free trial.
Moodle
open source (meaning free, written by programmers for
the greater good) learning management system (track your
eLearning/quizzes/forums/assignments). Since you
probably don’t have a Dad with his own web host, you’ll
need a good Moodle host. Check out
www.moodlerooms.com
as an option.
Articulate
still the easiest way to make SCORM-compliant (trackable)
eLearning courses with a beautiful interface. A bit
pricey for some (around 1k for the whole suite, which I
recommend), but worth it, for what you get.
Typepad
absolutely an incredible blogging
tool. We use it for the blogs mentioned below in my
signature and couldn’t be happier. We pay around
$150/year for our needs, but there are less expensive
options available. Includes RSS feeds, which are
probably worth of a category all by themselves. Learn
how to create RSS feeds through The Common Craft Show.
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