Thursday, 1 July 2010

Convert scanned file to a text file



Got a scanned report in image format and want to edit it? Then use this online conversion service to get it into text. Probably not something you need every day but when you need it you need it.

Simple, quick, no fuss.

Friday, 4 June 2010

Simple way to do Market Research

This website offers anybody a ready chance to do market research and have it analysed, without having to incur into significant expenses. You can avoid having to spend an inordinate amount of time designing forms, collecting results and analyzing them to arrive at satisfactory conclusions.

In their own words, Requestio: "Flexible yet powerful, this web based survey software allows you to collect responses and data from your survey target audience. You can then run this data through our reporting modules to interpret the results of your online market research campaigns. With Requestio you can create, customize, deploy and promote your online market research campaigns in a few minutes."

It's all on the web, nothing to download and you can integrate with social media sites easily.

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Staffguardian; keeping track if a distributed team

At first I thought this was a bit too Big Brother'ish. Bu then I got to think how useful it would be to keep tabs on fellow team members who are travelling about. This website called Staffguardian provides the facility to show the location of everyone in the team. It is easy to use, though there is a small monthly fee.

How about community nurses using something like this to keep connected with each other. Or project managers who may be working across a variety of sites.

If I knew where people were, and their availability, I think I might more often have phonecalls and I might do less email.

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Show your screen and comment

Sometimes I am asked to review smeone's website or a page they are developing. Or I might have a problem using part of it. I end up sending emails with descriptions - all very long winded.

Owely has developed a very simple solution where you capture the screen, then use their functions to annotate the capture - like put an arrow and a comment on the picture. Then all you have to do is email your contact with a link and they then get to see your comments.

Easy. Productive.

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

carryouttext.com Converting text to audio

I like this facility as I can use it to convert papers and the like into an MP3 file so I can listen to it while I travel, Good for shifting paperwork in a different way.

Try it out here

Monday, 8 February 2010

HTML to PDF Converter

Ever saved a web page and then discovered on opening it later that it is a mess of code looking little like what you expected. This site provides an online converter of a webpage (just put in the page address) into a PDF. Best thing is there is no registration. I loved it.

pushtocustomers.com; have your own branded iPhone app

Twitter and Facebook may be a good way to connect with customers. Even better is if you can have your own branded app for the iPhone and apps for other phones as well such as Android ones - in development. This would then help link your customer to your community much more efficiently and effectively. If you want to read more about how one company is offering to do this then check them out.

There is cost to have this done as well as an ongoing subscription. However, until the price of developing apps comes down this may be the most cost-effective option.