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THE Ready to jump into the cloud? Check out the following five apps and see how they can make you and your staff more productive while on the road or in the skies. And then get ready for the next big thing: cloud-based operating systems. derlist on your iPad—your lists are automatically updated no matter the device you use. Some people find the lack of automated reminders and time-based deadlines a drawback, but others love it for its minimalist design and streamlined approach to getting stuff done. Best of all, it’s pretty. Get it at: www.6wunderkinder.com/ wunderlist. File Storage: Dropbox Works on: Mac OS X, Windows, iOS, Android, Blackberry OS; Windows Mobile; some features work via any mobile browser Cost: Free for 2 GB of storage, $9.99/month for 50 GB of storage, $19.99/month for 100 GB of storage Productivity Tracking: Harvest Works on: Mac OS X, Windows, iOS, Windows Mobile; many features work via any smart phone with a browser, certain features work via any mobile phone Cost: Starts at US$12/month for up to three users, $90/ month for ten users (plus $10/month for each additional user); free 30-day trial Brainstorming/Idea Management: Evernote Works on: Mac OS X, Windows, Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile Cost: Free for 60 MB of uploads monthly; $5/month for extra functionality and 1 GB of uploads monthly Harvest is a multipurpose app ideally suited to entrepreneurs and small businesses. It offers almost everything related to productivity: time tracking, online invoicing, expense tracking, estimating and customizable reporting tools. And because it’s a cloud app, it can keep your staff productive from the office, home, plane or hotel. Harvest features integration with tons of third-party tools, including Twitter, Gmail, Basecamp, QuickBooks, desktop widgets and more. There’s an iPhone app, of course, but even users without smart phones can track their time and expenses via text message. Get it at: www.getharvest.com. Scan this tag with your smart phone to learn about three big-picture reasons to join the undeniable movement to the cloud, according to author and professor Christopher Barnatt. Task Management: Wunderlist Works on: Mac OS X, Windows, Android (coming soon), iOS Cost: Free Evernote lets you capture, organize, store and sync virtually any kind of information across most devices. Sound broad? It is. Think of Evernote as an ever-ready, virtual notebook. Use your phone to snap photos of the business cards you collect, upload them to Evernote and search them based on the words in the images. Grab screenshots, organize travel information, leave voice memos for yourself and automatically convert them to text, snap images of whiteboards after meetings—it’s hard to imagine something Evernote can’t help with. Business users who want to collaborate on notes with colleagues might want to upgrade to a premium account. Get it at: www.evernote.com. Dropbox offers online storage and file sharing. Leave the USB drive at home; you can drop any kind of file into the Dropbox folder on your computer, and it will automatically appear on any other device on which you’ve installed Dropbox. That means your files are available wherever you go, from any Web-connected device. You can keep folders private or share them with colleagues. A big Dropbox plus is the automatic syncing, which means that it can act as a remote backup service so you never lose your most important work. Lots of third-party apps integrate with Dropbox to give more functionality that keeps workers productive while they’re away from the office. Get it at: www.dropbox.com. Google Docs Works on: Any desktop/laptop browser, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile Cost: Free Wunderlist is a visually attractive task management app that tracks all of your to-do lists. You can create multiple lists— say, one for work and one for home, or one for each client—set deadlines, assign highpriority status, share lists for collaboration with colleagues and publish lists to the cloud for viewing at a dedicated URL. Create a task on your laptop, check it off the next day on your phone, then open Wun18 Craving more and greater tech insights to grow your business and tickle your inner geek? Don’t miss the technology-infused feature section in the March/April issue of One+. It’s one of the best-known cloud apps out there and for good reason: When it comes to creating, editing, storing and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations from anywhere, Google Docs is still the cloud app to beat. Some people and businesses have even dumped Microsoft Office for Google’s free suite, even though it offers fewer features. Still, all the basics are available and work well, and collaboration with colleagues is easy. Get it at: docs.google.com. TARA SWORDS writes about technology, business and travel. one+ 02.11 http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist http://www.dropbox.com http://www.getharvest.com http://www.evernote.com http://docs.google.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of One + February 2011

One + February 2011
Contents
Energy of Many
Impressions
The Productivity Cloud
Overheard
Agenda
MPIWeb Connect
Thoughts+Leaders
Events for Life
Gateway to the Future
Top Spots
It Was Not Interesting
Irrelevant
The Wrong Words
Up to Snuff
That’s Enough Facebook
Super Foods to the Rescue
Shoring Resources
Jack and Smoke
Accidentally on Purpose
Staying on Top of Tech
The Joy of Work
Plan to Run
Productivity on the Go
Angel of the Favelas
Your Community
Making a Difference
Until We Meet Again
MPI’s 2011 Meeting Guide to Canada
Contents
Banff Centre
Ottawa Tourism
Tourisme Montréal
The Buzz
InterContinental Canada
Caesars Windsor
Vintage Hotels
The Great Green North
Whistler, British Columbia
Meetings and Conventions Calgary
Scotiabank Convention Centre

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