What we use and what we love to use to get things done at DMG. This is my list and not what everyone around here uses, but hey… I am the one writing the post so I get to pick.
I have broken down the list into sections of you are looking for some tips in a specific area you can skip to that section.
Categories
Productivity & Scheduling
Mobile Apps & Remote Working
Website Management & Monitoring
Social Media & SEO
Desktop Apps
Entertainment
Enjoy and please share what you love or hate!
Productivity & Scheduling
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- Google Apps – This is our hub for everything we do – Email, Calendar, Docs, Collaboration.
- GroupCamp – Project Management that is fully integrated with our Google Apps. Can we say productive…. ya
- Livescribe Pen – I still love pen and paper when brainstorming idea. I just pick one of these smartpen’s up and love.
- Evernote – Sync’s up with my smartpen and a great spot to store ideas and things that you want to get back to later.
- MindJet – Mind mapping is a great way to get a good picture of what you are doing and where you want to go. Mindjet is the tool we love.
- SugarCRM – Onboard in our work!
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Mobile Apps & Remote Working
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- Android Phone – for my smartphone I use a Samsung Captivate with Android 2.2. What can I say I love Google stuff.
- iPad – I have a first gen and still use it, paired with my Zaggmate keyboard it is a great solution for being mobile.
- WebEx for iPad – We love WebEx, for meetings, training for clients and support this is a great tool. Now with the iPad we can do meeting with from anywhere.
- MindJet for iPad – Mind mapping on the iPad, love it.
- Evernote – On both iPad and Android. We love it, use to capture ideas, notes, to-dos what ever.
- SugarSync – Get access to all our files from any device this is a great tool. Did a review on some other cloud hosting solutions here.
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Website Management & Monitoring
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- WordPress – Our CMS platform of choice, powers our clients sites as well. Powerful platform and with a few tweaks it is a solid CMS
- Genesis Framework – Sites that we build for clients are powered by WordPress with the Genesis framework. Great customization features and lots of options.
- Dreamweaver – Our primary tool that we use for site development and coding.
- NotePad++ – Another tool that we use for Coding sites.
- Google Analytics – Can you believe this is free? We love google analytics, you can not get somewhere without knowing where you are now.
- Media Temple – Our web servers are on Media Temples network, great platform great service.
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Social Media & SEO
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- Google+
- HubSpot – We are a HubSpot partner and yes we eat our own dogfood. We love HubSpot and use it everyday!
- Hootsuite – Some crossover between HubSpot and HootSuite, however we have been using Hootsuite for monitoring Social Media channels for sometime and it works for us.
- Screaming Frog – This is a great App… We love it
- WebCEO – Great tool for generating reports for clients, research etc.
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Desktop Apps
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- OS – Win7, Mac OSX, Ubuntu 11, CentOS, Windows Server 2008 what can I say we are geeks
- Camtasia Studio – Videos and training modules this is easy to use and that works for us!
- MindJet MindManager – Mind-mapping sometimes this is just fun
- Photoshop – The standard for image editing and manipulation
- Illustrator – Another app we regularly use.
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Entertainment
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- Google Music – This is new for me and I love it, thanks to +Dee Lanier for the invite.
- Spotify – My new Favorite Music App!
- CBC.ca – Yes, I am Canadian and love CBC. Listen online at cbc.ca
- Slacker Radio – Another great spot to listen to streaming music.
- Netflix – I do not watch cable TV, but I love a good movie.
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That is what we love and use every day at DMG. What do you love?
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