Paul Coyne is Research and Development Manager with Emerald Group Publishing. He is an evangelist for personal learning and research products, services and content with a social web aspect.

Paul's Top 10 Tools as at 9 July 2007

1. Flock. Easily integrates into all my other web based services helping me to capture information, store and and recall so well. Can't be beat.

2. Emerald InTouch/Elgg. A safe secure, space I can use to store thoughts, express opinions publicly and privately, read my RSS and make connections to other people based on shared interests and likes, create and participate on other communities.

3. Captivate: Great for showing people what you're talking about and leaving it with them as training/support materials.

4. Authorware: s this still available? I worked with Authorware from version 2.0 (don't do much materials creation these days) and I thought it unbeatable for creating engaging, interactive and genuinely useful learning materials.

5. Skype: for conferencing, capturing conversations and interviews, point, click and talk

6. Microsoft Windows Messenger: I love how discrete this can be. As a means of staying in touch with friends, colleagues, technical authorities and peers in an informal but immediate way there's nothing better.

7. Odiogo: Now my blogs, and indeed other's blog posts that I capture and store are automatically converted to MP3 for me. For very short snippets of audio for when I'm mobile this is a great service.

8. Google Earth: For directions, for scouting a new place ahead of time, for work, for fun. Google earth is simply indispensable

9. del.icio.us: When combined with the Flock browser, this is great for storing pages stumbled upon and for seeing what others are tagging along the lines I'm interested in.

10. CiteULike: CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. Very much like delicious but automagically extracts the citation data embedded in a paper. Very handy