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Take It All In and Post it with Jott

You’ve heard of Dick Tracy right? He would talk into his watch and things would happen. Ahhh, the power of the human voice. With the social media options available now, letting people know what you’re up to is getting easier and easier.

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The challenge is that making all of those updates as easily as speaking them into being. Jott helps you take care of all of that information by speaking it into existence.

Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Jott Networks is the world leader in mobile voice-to-text applications. Jott allows individuals and businesses to easily capture thoughts, send emails and text messages, set reminders, organize lists, and post to web services and business applications all with their voice, using any phone. Jott also converts voicemail into email and text messages, making voicemail a more productive tool. Since its introduction in 2006, Jott has made world-class voice transcription accessible to anyone with a cell phone.

Jott works with Google Calendar, salesforce.com, iPhone, twitter, Facebook, Quickbooks, Blogger, Outlook, Blackberry, Amazon, TypePad, WordPress, 30 Boxes, tumblr and many, many, many more.

If you use any of these services, you owe it to yourself to find out more about Jott.com.

Uncover the tool you may have been waiting for to turn your voice into the assistant you’ve had with you since the early days.

Uncover Jott and voice commands will unleash your power in social media.

Image: Snagit of Jott.com homepage

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What Are You Working On? – Use ididwork.com

With the expansion of the Internet and connectivity to it, many people are finding themselves in a situation where they have the benefit and perhaps luxury of working from anywhere and having everything they need at their fingertips to be productive. Perhaps that scenario leads to a question by their management of what exactly are they working on while they’re not "in the office" or being seen.

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The ididwork.com website allows employees to fill in their management team and bosses, and any other interested individual a recording of what’s been accomplished by them as they do their job. Manager’s can sign-up and manage the information related to multiple staff members working on their projects.

You can keep a log, tag items, see what your teammates are working on and download reports of everything as an employee. As a manager you can do many of the same things as well as giving feedback and provide other coaching tasks.

Uncover what you’ve been working on and let those keeping an eye on you and your work know what’s going on with ididwork.com

Image: Snagit of ididwork.com website

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How to Really Search for Results

Jumping on your computer and quickly firing up your browser to search for something has become second nature to most of us. Opening your search engine of choice and throwing a couple of terms in the text box doesn’t take much thought. The question is are you fine-tuning your actions to get a manageable collection of results or are you pulling back a collection of haystacks looking for that one needle.

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There’s a number of tips you can manage to add to your searching routine to help pull back that finer tuned section of results you’ve been looking for all this time. PC Magazine has an article that lists a variety of tips on succeeding with your searches.

Your first thought may be using a variety of operators in your searches to include, exclude or search for an exact phrase on the web. The PC Magazine article spotlights some other actions you can take to automate searches or remember some specific searches you make regularly as well.

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