Laois Link List

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. We ahre folders with RTF files, images, videos and audio clips.

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MailChimp is the best way to design, send, and share email newsletters.

Collaborative place on Google Docs.

Public view of web visitors.

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Testing your knowledge through a clever app (iOS or Android) or through the Socrative web site.

You can share audio content online and completely free of charge with Audioboo. Then post it on Audioboo's servers and share the audio in-line to other social networks. It works with iOS and Android apps as well as with an email service where you send clips to the Audioboo server as attachments.

With ReadNotify, users get free return email notifications, and/or SMS/ICQ instant messages when email they've sent gets opened, and can track their emails reading history. #measureit

The Kindle Keyboard edition is the one that reads from text that it has in its memory. #syndication

Bernie's blog is part of a syndication strategy.

The photostream of Irish Typepad on the service that ensures you have high resolution images available for reuse. Flickr is a syndication service.

Hashtags for heritage inform your decision to create, share and syndicate related content.

Bernie Goldbach follows #edchatie and listens to educators who are listed on a Twitter edchatie list. The people on this list are part of a syndication strategy--they will receive targeted messages.

Instagram should be part of your syndication strategy.

Using @thinkup to view my Twitterstream. #measureit

Vellum puts a spotlight on content, making it easy to find what you should read next. Links are ranked by how often they have been shared by those you follow on Twitter, so you can stay up to date with the news that the people you care about are discussing. #research

The Evernote family of products help you remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use.

When we report on location with Windows Phones, the phones automatically store photos online. We also store the audio clips in a share OneDrive folder. Then we access them from any PC, Mac or phone--anywhere in the world.

The yellow Lumia 1020 used by Bernie Goldbach is a 41 megapixel phone with excellent field reporting capabilities. Its snap-on battery cover doubles as a camera grip and tripod attachment point.

Windows Phone Ultimate Recorder. Used by @topgold for field reporting.

YouTube is a free video service available for community news sharing. You can subscribe to YouTube channels. Laois Heritage and Culture deserves to be a channel.

Bernie Goldbach is @topgold on Facebook, the world's largest social network. Community groups have efficiently leveraged Facebook's newsfeed. However, Facebook is a silo and should not be used to replace an organisation's own website.

Clever field reporters swear by their always-on note-taking skills. You should always have something that does not need a battery, even if it isn't your primary note-taker. After 15 years of solid use, @topgold stands by Moleskine notebooks.

Freda+ is the Windows Phone app (and Windows 8 desktop app) that provides spoken words from epubs.