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30 online social tools we use and recommend [kwiqq]

Posted on | November 26, 2008 | 5 Comments

As a social media junkies, we tend to live and breathe social tools. Some of these tools might be of interest to our readers. Let us know if you find them useful:

Multimedia

1). BBC iPlayer- Watch BBC programmes

2). Favtape – Listen to music in your browser. The successor of Muxtape

3). YouTube – Watch Movies and Listen to music videos

4). Vimeo – Mainly watch geeky videos

5) Flickr- Upload pictures and share with friends

6) Picnik – Modify Flickr pictures in the browser

Documents and Presentation

7) Scribd – To upload White papers and sometimes presentations
8) Slideshare – Upload powerpoint or keynote presentations

9) Google Docs – Share and collaborate of documents

RSS and Share

10) Netvibes – RSS feed reader

11) ShareThis – Badge which we use to share web pages through del.icoi.us, digg etc

12) Del.icio.us – Bookmarking favourite links

Project Management and client interaction

13) Basecamp – Tool we use for client and team collaborations

14) Trac – Tool we use to maintain a Wiki for clients and developers can link this with SVN (i.e. subversion)

15) OSTicket – For customers to log tickets to complete an outstanding task

16) Backpack – For client mood boards and wiki style presentations

17) Protoshare – Quickly mock up wireframes for clients and produce specification document

Sales and Marketing

18) Twinkle – Micro blog through twitter using the iPhone

19) TweetDeck – Microblog through twitter on MAC or PC. Also excellent to discover conversations

20) Highrise – To track the progress of sales enquiries online

21) WordPress – Blogging online, not only for Kwiqq but also for our clients

22) LinkedIn – To connect with colleagues and business community online

23) Jajah – Speak to our client abroad through our landline (for free)

24) Google Talk – To chat and video conference with clients and developers online (through browser or application)

Tools for Development

25) Zend Framework – A framework we use to develop sites for our clients

26) Joomla – We also use joomla for client CMS (Content Management System)

27) OpenId – Preferred way to provide login and identity maintenance for our clients

28) Google Calendar – Tools we use to manage our development teams time and activities

Tools I use personally

29) AroundMe – Fantastic iPhone application find restaurants, banks and other venues close to you

30) BabelFish – Translate text from almost any major language to English and viceversa

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