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15 Outstanding Tools to Collect, Organize and Share Your Web Experience. If you’re a blogger, journalist, or simply have a desire for more knowledge, you’ve most definitely faced information organization problems. Sometimes being able to access and find information quickly is crucial. Nowadays the web is enormous and it’s a big advantage to have a place where you can store all your bookmarks, pictures and links, access them anytime, anywhere and be able share them quickly. If you’re as lazy as I am you’ve probably got something like a ‘Do it later’ folder in your bookmarks. And then you’re just shoving links there until that list is the length of your screen. Sometimes you’ve got a great idea and you write it down on a notepad, for example.

I remember those times when I had to dig through my browser’s history to find an image I wanted to show my friend. After some time and research I came across Zootool. 1. Zootool is about collecting, organizing and sharing your favorite images, videos, documents and links from all over the internet. Get the Lasso Collect Share. Read Later Fast. Instapaper: Save interesting web pages for reading later.

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Scoop.it. The Content Strategy of Product (Part 1) It’s official: I have joined the remarkable Arc90 as Lead Strategist, where I am forming its content strategy and information architecture practice. This post reflects upon the role we see for advancing the content strategy project here. Product is the Future of Content Everyone’s a critic, as the old saw goes, but the lament counts twice-over in the future-of-media discussion. Stir in digital industry folks you follow on Twitter and, well, stand back. Tear a proverbial page from my feed any day this week. “The simple takeaway here: content is product. Meanwhile, in the past week at the Arc90 office, Readability noted The New York Review of Books’ and TweetMag’s partner integration while the team was heads-down down on a raft of promising new service enhancements. What do all these events share in common? The simple takeaway here: content is product.

Product is actually the future of content. Why Arc90, Why Now A Product Take on Content Strategy. The Content Strategy of Product (Part 2) This post concludes a two-part consideration of where the intersection of product and content thinking can take the practice of content strategy. (Read the initial post.) Arc90 has been practicing content strategy fundamentals in its client and product work for years.

But there is much to be said for what’s distinctive in their approach and where it marries with mine. When Content Meets Product Content is a critical business asset, but where content is the business asset—think namely, but not exclusively, of publishing or broadcast media—the principles of product development apply. This is part of what I call “big tent” content strategy, wherein we try to solve business problems with content rather than limiting ourselves to addressing (sometimes parochial) content problems alone.

Incidentally, this is how we become better critics of something like the AOL content strategy. In the big picture, content and product are a weave of business strategy. The Content Strategy of Readability. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Tomboy (software) Example note. Some of the editing features supported: Text highlightingInline spell checking using GtkSpellAuto-linking of web and email addressesUndo/redoFont styling and sizingBulleted listsNote synchronization over SSH, WebDAV, Ubuntu One, or Snowy[2] (AGPL Django web app for online access to Tomboy notes) Tomboy supports several plugins, including: Comparison of notetaking software Official website.

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Thoughtboxes. Shelfster - "Gather info from everywhere, write articles & publish them to your blog!". Shelfster's Blog - Write, organize and publish articles to your blog. Shelfster vs Evernote | Online, Offline Note Taking, Note Sharing. Hello there! If you are new here, please consider subscribing to the RSS feed or following us on Twitter to receive site updates.

We are obvious Evernote fans here at 40Tech – but that doesn’t mean we aren’t open to other options! Recently we were contacted by the good folks at Shelfster, and asked if we might be interested in doing a review on their “application which allows you to easily organise and share with others your favorite information from the web, offline documents or real world”. They even provided us with 10 invitations to their private beta for our readers! We took their app for a spin, and found that Shelfster is pretty cool, overall.

Have a read through and let us know what you think in the comments. The first 10 comments with a raised hand will get the invite link. For a quick walkthrough of some of Shelfster’s features, check out the public notes I made and posted in Shelfster while trying it out. The Good The Bad (bear in mind, they are still in private beta) Shelfster Alternatives and Similar Software. Shelfster @ Twitter. Shelfster @ YouTube. Shelfster - A New Tool for Organizing Research. Shelfster is a new research and writing tool that I learned about from Vicki Davis earlier this week before trying it out myself this afternoon. The purpose of Shelfster is to help you bookmark and annotate websites and documents that you find while researching a topic.

You can organize your findings into Shelfster projects. Within each of your projects you can create documents by dragging and dropping links and texts into your documents from your list of saved links. Of course, you can also type in your documents and edit things that you dragged from your project library to your documents. Documents can be saved in your online account, downloaded, and printed.

Shelfster offers an iPad and iPhone app for bookmarking and annotating items to save in your projects. Applications for EducationShelfster has the potential to be a good service to help students organize the useful content they find on the Internet. Shelfster. Do you have a question for us? Click on the link for that, and we will get back to you shortly! Before doing that you might check this list of answered questions, maybe you can find your answer here.

What is Shelfster? Shelfster is a free solution that allows you to gather information from everywhere, write articles, publish them to your WordPress blog or save them as WordPress drafts. What's so special about Shelfster? You can manage in one place all the information you've previously gathered and easily write articles. You don't have to worry anymore that your ideas, collected data and sources of inspiration are lost or scattered in different places. How can I gather information for an article? What do I do after I've saved a bunch of stuff with the capturing tools? You can login in your online account and access them at any time, keep them organized or use them for your articles. What's an ITEM? What's an ARTICLE? An article is a text file that you can create with the Online Editor. <? Memonic: A Web Clipping Tool to Capture And Share Web Content. Suppose you are reading a webpage with long paragraphs of content and want to share it with your friend.

The good old way of sharing content is shorten the URL and send to your friend via Twitter, Facebook or Email. But there is a problem when your friend opens the webpage and starts reading. He/she may want to quickly grasp the idea on what the page is all about and why you have shared the link with him. He may not like reading long paragraphs of introduction and may quit reading the page altogether. If you want to share snippets of content from a webpage, you need a smart note making tool at your disposal. Capture Snippets of Content Using Memonic First, go to the Memonic website and sign up for a free account. 1. Drag and drop the memonic bookmarklet in your bookmarks toolbar Now when you want to capture snippets from a webpage, hit the bookmarklet and memonic will let you select portions of the webpage as shown below: 2. 3. This is my favorite way of saving snippets in Memonic inbox. Springpad: a free app that helps you remember. Remember everything with Evernote, Skitch and our other great apps. | Evernote.

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