I spoke yesterday as the post-lunch keynote at BlogPotomac at the State Theater in Falls Church, Virginia. It was a lot of fun and was streamed live on the Web so I actually had family members watching along in Chicago - gotta love technology.
I spoke about my social media life and how it has helped get me where I am today. I also spoke about my love for products or "bright, shiny objects" as I refer to them. I did a brain dump of all the products and services I used routinely. I listed services I use at least once a week. I like to share because sharing is caring - so I wanted to share the list of products with you (below).
Photo thanks to Josh Hallet from hyhu.
Communications
Gmail - For email that allows away messages
AOL Mail - For email with a personalized domain
Remember the Milk - Enables me to create to-do lists that can be pulled into Gmail or accessed on the iPhone with a pro account
AIM Instant Messenger - For instant messaging using AIM client and within Gmail
AwayFind - Enables people to connect with me quickly via a form that sends a message to my mobile device - more AwayFind details
Facebook - This social utility offers an opportunity to communicate with some of my friends and family
Twitter - This microblogging platform is great for communicating to a larger group of friends like a broadcast instant message both online or via text message
Photos
Flickr - I have a pro account and over 6500 photos uploaded... like this one of my breakfast yesterday. :)
Video
TubeMogul - For easy distribution of my video podcast videos onto as many platforms as possible in only a few simple steps - more TubeMogul details
Viddler - A video platform I use which offers a slick video player with inline comments, I use it for SOMEWHAT FRANK TV
Blip.tv - A video platform I use for formulating my video podcast SOMEWHAT FRANK TV feed
YouTube - For online videos shorter than 10 minutes
eyespot - I don't use this one as much but it is still the only online video product that allows you to edit video and then download the edited video in multiple formats
Blogging or Microblogging
Typepad - A hosted blog platform - SOMEWHAT FRANK, is powered by Typepad
WordPress - An open source blog platform - the TECH cocktail site is powered by WordPress
Tumblr - A microblogging platform - I use it for my personal site, FJ Gruber - more Tumblr details
Storage
Evernote - A digital dropbox with a desktop, Web and mobile component - more Evernote details
Content Discovery & Sharing
Mixx - Social news - more Mixx details
Digg - Social news
Delicious - Social bookmarking
StumbleUpon - Content discovery
Shareaholic - A consolidated sharing extension for Firefox - more Shareaholic details
Analytics
SiteMeter - Offers a snapshot view of daily site traffic and activity
FeedBurner - Analytics for my feeds including number of subscribers - more FeedBurner details
Google Analytics - For deeper site traffic metrics
News & Information Management
myAOL - A personalized startpage and feed reader experience - more myAOL details
FeedHub - Creates a personalized feed list based on your reading habits - more FeedHub details
AideRSS - Ranks items in a feed by popularity - more AideRSS details
Search & Alerts
Summize - Twitter search
Google Alerts - Alerts for monitoring the Web
Filtrbox - New more sophisticated alerts product for monitoring the Web - more Filtrbox details
Lijit - Blog search engine which offers search analytics - more Lijit details
Lifestream Aggregators
SocialThing - Aggregates all your profile updates and your friends into one lifestream - more SocialThing details
MyBlogLog - Creates a community and lifestream around your blog community contacts - more MyBlogLog details
FriendFeed - Creates a conversation around your lifestream - I find it a little distracting though
TwitterFeed - Aggregates my items and places them into my Twitter updates automatically - more TwitterFeed details
Travel
Dopplr - Share your travels with others online - more Dopplr details
Tripit - Organizes your travel plans for you - more Tripit details
Project Management
Basecamp - A project management tool created by 37signals
Finance
Quicken Online - I tried to use Quicken for Mac and it was way too complicated so I gave Quicken Online a shot for managing my financial picture easily in one place.
These are the products I like to use. Let me know if there are others that I am not using that you like are using routinely.
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Frank,
So glad you joined us at www.BlogPotomac.com. You were instrumental in helping us promote the event -- and then showing up to be one of the stars.
This list is invaluable, BTW.
Thanks hugely for sharing. :)
Posted by: Debbie Weil | Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Frank - great job yesterday!
Posted by: Ryan Moede | Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Great list. Thanks you for sharing.
One other to add in your microbloging list is Plurk!
Posted by: Mathieu Bélanger | Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 01:04 PM
It was great watching your talk yesterday--your story, your speech, and the advice you shared were all really helpful and inspiring. And I'm honored that my little product has made it to your list of bright & shiny things...
Posted by: Jared Goralnick | Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 02:07 PM
I randomely found out on google about this nice software you can use to get people find you and be attracted to your headlines in search engines. I think it was called glyphius...
You pretty much type a headline and it gives you a score. You keep editing it and changing few words until the score gets higher and higher and i guess next thing you know, you have a catchy headline ;) I think I'll try it to advertise my coming up business.
Posted by: Asanya | Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 07:56 PM
Frank, thanks for being a fellow Shareaholic :)
Posted by: Jay Meattle | Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Thank you for your outstanding lunch keynote. It really accelerate the unconference from very good to excellent. Well done.
Posted by: Geoff Livingston | Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 01:40 PM
Here's one to add to your Search & Alerts section:
www.cellalert.net
But it's actually also an RSS-based subscription alert service; including a Twitter Tracker (www.cellalert.net/twitter), Tech Buzz (www.cellalert.net/techbuzz), Track Anything (www.cellalert.net/trackAnything), Grant Alerts (www.grantalerts.net) and Craigslist Tracking (www.cellalert.net/Craigslist).
Hope that helps somebody.
Posted by: Israel | Monday, June 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Hi Frank, thanks for the mention!
Have you found a good control/interest level over the last six months or so? (Both for monitoring your own blog and the sites you follow.)
Posted by: Melanie Baker | Monday, June 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Frank, it was great meeting you and hearing you speak. Thanks for the list... it will come in handy as we progress forward with brainstorming and such. And since you're in the Ballston area, we'll have to get together sometime soon for coffee or lunch and discuss ideas.
Posted by: Nick Choy | Monday, June 16, 2008 at 11:27 AM
I use something called MindMeister---it's an online mindmapping tool. It's not perfect, but gets the job done.
Posted by: jonny goldstein | Monday, June 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Good list. Thanks you for sharing.
I know most, but have few new things to check out
Posted by: efimor | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 04:38 PM
Frank ... You Have Been Aggregated on http://www.SEOMasterList.com ...
Have a nice day ... :)
Posted by: Edward Beckett | Thursday, July 03, 2008 at 03:28 PM