Today’s guest post is from the National Association of Electrical Distributors’ Linda Thurman, marketing manager, and Afton Spriggs, electronic media content specialist. You can connect with NAED on Facebook and Twitter.
Today, we’d like to present you with a few apps that have helped us in the marketing and technology world to not only move our companies forward, but to also help to assure that our personal lives run just as smoothly as our jobs.
COLLABORATION & PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
Evernote: Of course, a “Favorite App” list would not be complete without first mentioning Evernote. The company was recently awarded the title of Company of the Year by the prestigious Inc. magazine, for “reinventing the way we remember.” Features of Evernote include the ability to take notes, save interesting web pages, create to-dos and shopping lists, attach images and PDFs, to name a few.
Fuze Meeting: Have you ever been mid-transit or in a tough situation where you need to connect with your team? This app is your perfect solution by giving you instant access to everything you need – start web conferences, view multimedia content presentations in real time, chat with co-workers and friends – with guaranteed security features.
Dropbox: Are you in love with Cloud Servicing? The Dropbox app extends its ease of accessibility to your own phone. Dropbox is an amazing online file storage, backup synching and sharing service and will sync up with all of your computers and handheld devices so that you can stay in perfect harmony FREE. The built-in reader is an added bonus for developing PDF, image files and Microsoft office files on the go.
Bump: No business cards on hand? Import and share your contact information with fellow smartphone users just by holding your phones close.
HootSuite: Stay on top of all of your social networking sites in one place with HootSuite. This app allows you to control Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and more in a one-stop-shop setting. You can send one message to multiple platforms or pick one social network at a time for a customized message for each outlet. HootSuite also allows you to schedule tweets and posts ahead of time—so even if you’re stuck in meetings all day, your social networking sites are still buzzing with activity. If you spring for the HootSuite Pro account ($5.99/month), you can also assign messages and tasks to team members.
STAYING PRODUCTIVE ON THE GO
Tripit: This app is a must-have for the traveling marketer! All you have to do is forward your confirmation emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and more to Tripit, which automatically organizes them into trips with all your details and confirmation numbers.
Lemon: Lemon is an app that helps keep your receipts organized—especially helpful for all of those business travel expenses. With Lemon, you can e-mail any online receipts to your account and when you get a paper receipt, just snap a photo of it with your phone’s camera and Lemon will store it for you. Once your receipts are stored, you can use Lemon to create reports of how, when and where your money (or the company’s money) was spent. With Lemon’s new export feature, you can turn your receipts into a spreadsheet and other useful formats.
AroundMe: Another helpful app when you’re on the road is AroundMe. This app pinpoints your location and then tells you what’s around. AroundMe will tell you how far to the nearest restaurant, gas station, hotel, ATM and so much more. You can choose to see the locations on a map or you can have AroundMe give you a route from where you are to where you want to go. Perfect for finding a great dinner spot in an unfamiliar city.
MapQuest: Forget lugging your GPS along on the road—all you need is your smartphone and the MapQuest 4 Mobile app. With the MapQuest app, you can get directions to your destination complete with voice-guided turn-by-turn instructions. MapQuest will also recalculate your route if you make a mistake and will give you live traffic information as you drive.
Taxi Magic: In a new city and need a cab super-fast at the touch of a button? Taxi Magic coordinates with local taxi dispatch services to find one that’s close to you, and then lets you book it without ever having to make a phone call.
What do you think? Any particularly impressive apps that we might have missed?
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