Minutes.io: Easy, shared meeting minutes
Ever have to transcribe handwritten notes from a meeting then spend half an hour sending them out to everyone? What a pain.
Minutes.io lets you quickly and easily take live notes of a meeting then distribute them to a group of people with a click of a button.
I love that they don’t make you register for the site even though you have access to the archive.
Oh, and I also love that it’s completely free.
Watch my full review here: YouTube – Minutes.io.
PDFescape: An update to an awesome tool
If you don’t own Adobe Acrobat (standard full version starts at $299), working with PDFs can be painful. I’ve written before about PDFescape, my all-time favorite PDF tool, which allows you to add comments to PDFs, actually fill out forms (even if forms aren’t enabled) and lets you do some modest editing.
With Adobe Reader’s new release, you can now add comments and share PDFs much easier (thank goodness!), so you might not need PDFescape as much as you used to, but they’ve included more features that I love.
Here’s a quick overview of PDFescape…
Paperless Post: Classy emails for thank yous and invitations
In the year 2000, people sent about 12 million daily emails. In 2010, the number of emails per day is 247 billion — an increase of about 20,000%! If you want your email to be noticed in all that mess, you have to do something different.
Give Paperless Post a try. Sign up for an account and you get 25 free “stamps” that allow you to send a cool, attention-getting email as an invitation, announcement or thank you. Your recipient receives an elegant email with an envelope they click to open. The invitations themselves are fun to open, and they have tons of templates and realistic-looking textured papers that look as handsome as something you get in the mail.
Paperless Post is not free, and there are several things about the system and the pricing that have made me hesitate to recommend it for business use. First, it’s a clumsy way to manage contacts and responses. Second, all their little extras (like envelope liners and your logo) can really add up. But I just had a great response when I sent a promotion about my speaking services to my professional association contacts, so I thought I’d share.
Watch this quick video to see how it works:
Online Invitations, Stationery, Announcements, and Save the Dates by Paperless Post
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