Web 2.0 productivity tools


A roundup of apps & resources to make your day go easier

Target audience: educators, students, nonprofits, social benefit organizations, NGOs, journalists, general public Following are Web 2.0 tools we’ve come across that have increased our productivity. Part of the early adopters creed is to share discoveries with others. Hat tip to Office 2.0 for initially compiling this roundup (which is not meant to be a comprehensive directory). Please add your own recommendations in the comments!

scholar
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weblog
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bookmarks
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calendar
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contacts
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document manager
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email
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feed reader
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IM
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microblogging
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personal pages
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photo editor
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photo manager
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polls
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presentation
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scheduler
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spreadsheet
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video editor
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video podcast player
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word processor
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development-tool
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drawing
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event-manager
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expense-tracker
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fax
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feed-processor
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file sender
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file manager
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form designer
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group manager
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mind mapper
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music player
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notepad
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OS
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outliner
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personal organizer
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printer
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project
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scanner
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sound mixer
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task manager
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time tracker
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utilities
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voicemail
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web conferencing
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wikis
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Sites and links of note

Classroom 2.0 Classroom 2.0 (on Ning) is the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education.

Classroom 2.0 blog Blog entries about Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in the classroom.

Education 2.0 A good directory of Web 2.0 teaching tools and resources.

Free Music Directory Where to find legal, copyright-free music and sound clips for your site or presentation.

Free Photos Directory Where to find images you can reuse and include in your work or on your site.

Free Video Directory Where to find video footage you can reuse and include in your work or on your site.

Glossary A quick, thorough guide to social media terms.

Creative Commons A quick guide to Creative Commons.

Blog platformsA comparison of different blogging platforms.

Social media essentialsEssential tools for social media from Essential Keystrokes.

Video translation Everyzing uses voice recognition technology to tease rough transcripts out of videos, making them more searchable and indexable by search engines.

Rich search transcripts

This page may be used for educational purposes only. Collected from various sources on the Web, particularly the Office 2.0 website. Icons designed by Jakub Steiner for the Tango global linux desktop look. What other cool tools have you discovered? Please add them in the comments.

44 Comments »

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Great list!
I would like to add Proofhub Proofhub in Group manager
Cheers

Comment by Matt — June 21, 2009 @ 9:11 am

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Comment by Patrick Rafter — June 29, 2009 @ 7:33 pm

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Not bad but a quick double check over the links may have been useful e.g coghead (recommended dev tool) appear to have died after the SAP Asset purchase(!) and active collab hasn't been open source for a long time -project pier is the closest open source to this type of thing. Also no mention of CiviCRM ?

Comment by rob — June 30, 2009 @ 10:41 pm

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What's the best place to upload and host your audio files for free?

Comment by Roberta — July 1, 2009 @ 5:51 pm

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Rob: You're right of course. But this has been a massive project and we see each of these "evergreen" pages as living documents that we'll refine and update in the days, weeks and months ahead. We'll certainly make the changes you suggest.

And hope we hear from others with other suggestions of apps that increase productivity.

Roberta: I still use the Archive.org (through Ourmedia and the spinxpress.com upload tool) to host audio files for free. Other folks host audio files on their own servers or Amazon Web Services, which is insanely cheap. And the venerably libsyn.com hosts podcasts starting at $5 a month.

Comment by jdlasica — July 2, 2009 @ 10:34 pm

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Hey, id like to add http://www.imni.de to the list. its an online picture editing tool.
greetings

Comment by daniel — July 26, 2009 @ 6:48 pm

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I just launched Bill On Site (http://www.billonsite.com) a couple of days ago, and I thought it belonged on this list and similar ones.

Bill On Site is a web-based invoicing system, with a unique twist: you can use Bill On Site on your mobile phone, enabling small business owners to send invoices to their customers while still on their client's site. All you need is a semi-recent phone – one with a web browser on it – and internet access on your phone.

Other invoicing services offer web-based access, but completely ignore the mobile web, making sending invoices on the go difficult at best, and impossible at worst. For Bill On Site, it's our sole focus, and something we're working on improving all the time.

All accounts come with a free 30 day trial, so if you wanted to try out the service, go ahead. No payment information is collected, so it is absolutely no-risk.

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Great list!

I would like to add The Payer Player

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Comment by Hemlata — December 2, 2009 @ 11:29 am

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hello

first of all I would like to thank for this great list of resources.

I would like to add to the list http://www.transferum.com – ftp space and file hosting company.

regards.

Comment by dorin — January 30, 2010 @ 5:46 pm

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I would like to add my website under category of Voicemail in this page. My website http://www.mediaringtalk.com lets you enjoy free local and international phone calls with superb voice clarity from your PCs and mobile phones. No sign-up fees, monthly contracts or purchase required.

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Have you considered HyperOffice Collaboration Suite?

Comment by Collaboration Tool — May 6, 2010 @ 8:57 pm

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Didn't know about it, thanks much!

Comment by jdlasica — May 7, 2010 @ 3:21 am

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At the company I work for we have a PM who puts a countdown timer up on the screen at the start of every meeting showing exactly how much time the project has left. Instead of saying we have to be done by this date it gives you the exact number of days, hours, minutes, seconds left to project completion. There are many sites online to do this buthttp://left2go.com suited us the best. It was prettier :) and allowed multiple countdowns on the same page. He put the project end at the top and the the subsequent phases beneath that. Watching the seconds tick away during the meeting was very effective.

Comment by Ken — May 13, 2010 @ 5:28 pm

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Comment by pandora beads — June 3, 2010 @ 10:38 am

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http://www.eventbrite.com was missing in the "Events" social tools. It's one of the largest Social Events products out there that Techcrunch, Mashable and Facebook use.

Comment by SocialMan — June 7, 2010 @ 8:25 pm

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You are right of course. But this has been a massive project and we see each of these "evergreen" pages as living documents that we shall refine and update in the days, weeks and months ahead.

Comment by Web Design — June 9, 2010 @ 10:16 am

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May I add one more on Project tools alternatives? It is web based CRM http://www.worketc.com, which I can recommend especially those whose businesses are online like mine. More than the usual CRM and project management features, this tool helps me best in contact management because of its ability to create multiple tags which I can assign to projects and contact lists.

Comment by Wilson Glass — June 10, 2010 @ 2:20 am

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For your Event manager section you should add http://www.amiando.com as an alternative and as @SocialMan allready said eventbrite, regonline and so on….

Comment by Event Registration — June 14, 2010 @ 1:49 pm

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Another great web conferencing tool to consider is TurboMeeting from RHUB. http://www.rhubcom.com TurboMeeting offers 4x webcams, polling, no download for attendees, etc. And remote support features are included for free.

Comment by Brian Parker — July 9, 2010 @ 12:09 am

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Thanks, Brian, didn't know about TurboMeeting. Will check it out.

Comment by jdlasica — July 9, 2010 @ 2:15 am

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Great list! Quite a few of these were new to me.

I have another web app to suggest, which combines your categories of Task Management and Group Management.

I am CEO of Teamly. Teamly is a new kind of productivity tool that helps you manage personal and group productivity. For a manager the benefit is that they now have a clear way to monitor and track what their colleagues consider are their top priorities.

Teamly is now in beta and I would love you or your readers to try it out. http://teamly.com

Comment by Scott Allison — July 29, 2010 @ 2:15 pm

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Bill On Site is a web-based invoicing system, with a unique twist: you can use Bill On Site on your mobile phone, enabling small business owners to send invoices to their customers while still on their client's site. All you need is a semi-recent phone – one with a web browser on it – and internet access on your phone.

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Comment by Guillermo Nayes — August 18, 2010 @ 10:10 am

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Hi, Guillermo. We designed the site ourselves. Use WordPress.org, of course. And chose a theme (for about $25/year) called ElegantThemes, though other themes like Thesis have come a long way since then. Best of luck! jd

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I can recommend Prezi for presentation software online & free it is not slide based but zooms http://prezi.com/

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