13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators. Whether you're artistically inclined or not, sometimes you just need to whip up an illustrative or entertaining image for a blog post or presentation. The tools on this list help you generate respectable graphics in a jiffy — design talent optional! Most of the tools on this list are web-based and as easy to use as filling in a web form.
We've added a couple of desktop applications that make visual communication a lot quicker and easier, even for those of us without a ton of graphic design skills. 1. Warning Labels and Signs Advising people to the dangers of the situation has never been so easy. Simply pick a label style, a warning icon, and enter your desired text into a simple web form and voila, you've got a standup warning label. For a vertical sign-style warning image, check out the companion site Warning Sign Generator. 2. Annoyed by those superficial and unflaggingly insipid motivational posters we're subjected to in dentists' and corporate offices everywhere? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Drew B's take on tech PR: How to use Twitter to kill email. I've written enough posts about hacks for my Nokia and BlackBerry. Now it's time for my iPhone and an email hack that I've been working on. I've been using a system that I built to feed me buzz from the web on to my phone through push messages (ie alerts that look like SMS).
Here's what I have built, how it works, and how I'm going to use it. First - how I'm going to use it. I'm going to use it to kill email. Email is something I know I couldn't live without, but people who regularly have to listen to me or read my blog know how I feel about it. If you spend a lot of time doing stuff, not just sat in front of a computer, and if your emails have jobs associated with them (ie, you cant just read it then file it - you have to actually do something after you get it) then getting hundreds of emails a day is a killer. Second - how it works. It works by plugging a cluster of social feeds into my iPhone to alert me whenever someone is saying something to me or about me.
Third - how I built it. 1. 8 online conference tools | Chinwag - the UK's leading comm. Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals | P. InShare5 Twitter is nothing short of a phenomenon. At the very least, it connects people to each other through a rich and active exchange of ideas, thoughts, observations, and vision in one, highly conducive ecosystem (known as the Twitterverse). The social fibers that weave together this unique micromedia network is strengthened by the expertise, respect, trust, admiration, and commonalities. These fabrics bind the people who breathe life and personality into the global community as well as fueling the disparate micro communities that ultimately extend across the Long Tail. Of all of the social tools and services that are pervasive throughout our digital society, only a select few communities can boast the pseudo fanatical conviction that Twitter‘s users unanimously possess.
Twitter is quickly gaining momentum, support and market inertia and is on direct path to mainstream awareness. As of March 2009, here are the top 10 apps for Twitter (Source, TweetStats): Twitter tools for journalists.