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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.

15 Outstanding Tools to Collect, Organize and Share Your Web Experience

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. 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.

The Content Strategy of Product (Part 1)

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. 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.

The Content Strategy of Product (Part 2)

(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. 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. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Tomboy (software) Example note.

Tomboy (software)

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. Online, Offline Note Taking, Note Sharing. Hello there!

Online, Offline Note Taking, Note Sharing

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. 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.

Shelfster Alternatives and Similar Software. Shelfster @ Twitter. Shelfster @ YouTube. Shelfster - A New Tool for Organizing Research. Shelfster. Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. 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.

Memonic: A Web Clipping Tool to Capture And Share Web Content

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. Springpad: a free app that helps you remember. Remember everything with Evernote, Skitch and our other great apps. Evernote.