Contacts and Networking
Online Event Registration Made Easy With GuestListApp
On the internet you will find many ways to create events and invite people to them. The standard procedure is to name your event, add a description, and specify the date plus time. Then you share the event’s URL with your friends directly or over your online social networking accounts; alternatively you can send friends email notifications or SMS notifications, depending on the website you are using.
But what if you wanted to create an event that required the attendees to purchase a ticket? Suppose you were the manager of a popular band and about to setup a small performance that people needed to pay for to watch. If you would like manage such an event online, then pay a visit to GuestListApp.
GuestListApp is a standard event creation website with one distinguishing feature: it lets you set ticket prices as well. When you create an account on the site and first login, you see a somewhat empty dashboard.
To create a new event, click on the button on the right saying “+New Event.” This will pop up a mini-window where you can enter your event’s details.
The details you can include are the event’s name, starting and ending dates plus timings, and the time zone your specified times refer to.
After this step you get an event checklist which you can see to complete your event.
To make your event’s page visually appealing you can upload a logo. Also remember to specify the event’s location. In the ticket information, you enter the price of each ticket.
You can specify different types of tickets.
GuestListApp charges 2% of each ticket sold. In case your event requires no tickets (i.e. ticket price is $0) you are not charged anything by the site.
When you are done adding details to your event, you can publish it on the web and monitor how many tickets have been sold so far.
Through the site’s simple interface you are able to easily set up ticket-requiring events. Visit GuestListApp
Save Your Bookmarks With Historious And Always Get Access to Them
Normally when you work with separate computers, there are not many ways you can share your bookmarks. Chrome has worked out a brilliant bookmark synchronization strategy that automatically keeps all your bookmarks updated but for this you need a Google account. Moreover many other browsers do not have such synchronization features. Having access to your bookmarks therefore, is quite a problem. And Historious is its solution.
Historious stores your bookmarks by indexing them, much like a search engine does. Usage of Historious is absolutely free. You start by creating an account on the site. After you sign in, you can drag the Historious bookmarklet on to your bookmarks toolbar; if you are a Chrome user, you can either use the bookmarklet or the Historious extension for Chrome.
Whenever you are on a website, all you do is click on the extension icon or bookmarklet to add the website to your Historious bookmarks. A message will pop up in the top right telling you that the page is being indexed.
A completion message is shown after the page has been indexed.
Another way to add bookmarks to your Historious account is by visiting http://USERNAME.histori.us/ (replace USERNAME with your Historious username) and either typing the URLs of all websites or upload a bookmarks file created by a web browser or services like Delicious.
When you visit http://USERNAME.histori.us/ you encounter a search-engine like view.
Either search for your bookmark by its name or click on the “Show all sites” link to view all the indexed bookmarks.
Since the bookmark list is stored you can access it from any computer with a web connection.
Now Find Available Parking Or Bus Timings Online With Roadify
In many areas of NYC over half of all the traffic is caused by people looking for parking. With so many cars around parking spots are rare and hard to find. Another transportation problem are buses that are seldom exactly on time; their published times are not always accurate and leave the passengers waiting at the stop at times. These two problems can easily be solved through Roadify.
Roadify is a free to use website that helps you find parking spots and bus times. The site has intelligently formed a community of users who are rewarded when they let each other know of available parking or bus timings.
People use Roadify via text messages. For example, after you have created your account online and specified your cellphone number, you can provide information on a parking spot the following way:
1. Start your text with the word “GIVE”
2. Add the location of the spot.
3. Add the number of minutes until the spot will be open. If it’s open now, say “now”.
“Give 322 7th St in 5 minutes”
“Give 4th St between 5th-6th Ave now”
People can also notify each other of bus timings in real time. As you give all this information to the Roadify users and help them out, you get StreetCARma Points. Give your parking spot before you go to get 5 StreetCARma points, an open parking spot to get 3 StreetCARma point and give a bus location to get 1 StreetCARma point. With enough points earned you can get free stuff from Roadify’s business partners. This stuff can include coffee, pizza, or any other deal that is available. The offers depend on the team you join on the site.
This service is a great concept and will surely be beneficial to residents of NYC.
It’s Easier Than Ever To Get Real-Time Maps And Traffic Information With Waze
GPS in cars can help you determine the right way but not the best way. The GPS can lead you right into a traffic jam and cause undesired delays. If only there was a way GPS could be aware of the traffic conditions on all routes. Thanks to Waze, that idea is no longer wishful thinking but a reality.
Waze is a free “social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road.” Basically Waze is a smartphone app. It has versions for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, and Symbian phones. You can install the app on your smartphone and start submitting traffic conditions of your nearby area. Conversely you can get directions from other Waze users to choose the traffic path with the least traffic.
You start using Waze by selecting your country.
Waze will then display the most recent user activity and top Wazers in your area.
You also get a live map displaying how well Waze is covering your area.
Since Waze is a relatively new web service, there is a chance that your country might not have people updating information on Waze. But at least Waze will have you; you can submit information on the traffic condition and develop Waze in your area.
Waze is a brilliant idea. When it is fully developed and has gathered a good number of users, it will surely provide convenience to all drivers.
Easily Create Online Survey Polls With Flisti
Are you thinking of holding up a vote on your website or blog? Holding an online poll is perhaps the easiest way to do this. And thanks to Flisti, creating online polls had never been easier.
Flisti is a free and user friendly website that assists visitors in poll creation. There is nothing to download or install – everything happens within your web browser. Moreover no registrations or account creations are required. You can jump right into the poll creation process.
The entire poll creation interface is located on the site’s homepage. You start by entering the question your poll will ask. Then you enter the answers. By default you can enter two answers; using the little “Add” button in the bottom right, you can add fields for more answers.
You can also allow or disable choosing multiple answers. When you have entered your questions and answers, click on the “Create New Poll” button. This will create a simple poll with a unique URL.
You can invite people to cast their vote by sharing the poll’s URL or by sharing it directly on the supported social networks. If you want to put the poll up on your own website or blog, you can copy the generated HTML code and paste it on your website.
In these easy steps, you would have created your online poll. Visit Flisti.
Mojo Helpdesk Performs Best As Online Ticket-Based HelpDesk And Issue Tracking App
The customer services departments of nearly all organizations tag each complaint with a number. This number is the complaint’s ticket. In case you want to track the complaint and check its status, you search for its ticket number in the status. The ticket therefore greatly simplifies handling and solving complaints.
Mojo Helpdesk is an online ticket-based helpdesk and issue tracking application used for tracking customer support cases within an organization.
The best features of this valuable service are offered under its 5 different paid plans but a free version is available for trial purposes.
After creating your account and logging in, you will fill out details of yourself and your company.
You will also get an access key that can be used with widgets and APIs.
Initially your dashboard will not have any tickets on it.
You can easily create new tickets by clicking the “+New ticket” link on the left.
To properly make use of your Mojo Helpdesk account, you will add other users to your account. Then anyone can generate a ticket, queue it up in the proper section, and assign it to particular user. The ticket’s priority and creator will also be visible to anybody who sees it.
Managing customer complaints within a company can become a complicated issue when there are many departments involved; however Mojo Helpdesk simplifies the entire matter and provides its services at reasonable rate.
Visit Mojo Helpdesk
Fun Way To Collaborate With Your Friends And Family Online Using Stixy
Some people like to keep things organized on their work desk while others prefer stacks of documents scrambled on their desk. Regardless of the group you belong to, you could highly use the services offered by Stixy.
Stixy is a free to use website that acts as your portable work desk. Basically it is a virtual desk that operates from within your browser. You create an account on Stixy then upload files to your account; you get thumbnail views of each file; these thumbnails can be dragged around or stacked on top of each other, whichever way suits you best. Thus whether it is organization you want or that scrambled documents look, Stixy can help you out.
When you sign up on Stixy, there is an easy-to-follow tutorial provided that clarifies the site’s usage. On the right center pane you place your thumbnail shortcuts to files.
Widgets provided on the site let you access different types of files: notes, images, documents, or videos. When you select a widget, you can upload a file corresponding to the widget’s type.
Customization is a key element in Stixy’s interface. The Notes feature, for example, lets you customize the font style, size, and color of your notes.
Another one of Stixy’s brilliant features is the ability to share your ‘Stixyboard’ with other people on the web.
Since multiple boards can be set up, you can share different Stixyboards with different people.
All these features along with many others the site has to offer make Stixy an amazingly useful website that makes your documents portable. Pay Stixy a visit @ http://www.stixy.com/ and use the comments section to let me know what you think about it.
Manage & Clean Up Your Twitter Friends With ManageFlitter
Twitter is a social network that lets you make friends and follow their updates. If somebody is updating their status too frequently, their updates can hijack your news feed hiding updates from others. On the other hand, if somebody has stopped using Twitter, he / she is taking a spot in your friends and followers list for no reason. For these and a number of other reasons, you might want to clean up your Twitter friends list and unfollow some people.
If you try to do this manually you will have to make observations on who is tweeting too frequently or not tweeting at all. Needless to say this manual operation will be very time consuming if you have many Facebook friends. A much better cleaning option is ManageFlitter.
ManageFlitter is a free web service that can be integrated into your Twitter account to clean up your Twitter friends list.
Before you start using ManageFlitter you will have to authorize its Twitter access.
After it has been authorized, ManageFlitter analyzes all your Twitter data to provide detailed statistics later.
With the information catalogued, ManageFlitter can show the tweeting frequency of your Twitter contacts.
The simple diagrams quickly display who is using Twitter how frequently. Additionally you can see people who are not following you back and people without profile pictures (these are possible spam accounts).
Overall, ManageFlitter provides a valuable service for Twitter users with many people in their friends list. You can check out ManageFlitter @ manageflitter.com
10 Collaborative Brainstorming Web Apps When You Work As A Group
The internet has recently seen a lot of progress in the field of online collaboration. When we are working on a project as a group and group members have to work remotely, online collaboration becomes a wonderful way to bridge the physical gap.
Below you will find 10 websites which I feel are great for brainstorming and working as a group. Check each one out and see which one suits your group project best.
1. Zoho
Zoho is the name for a collection of services. The entries you see in the image above are only few of what Zoho has to offer. We can sign up for an account and use Zoho’s services to easily gather ideas and create plus modify files / documents / images / presentations as a group. Click here to visit Zoho.
2. Mind42
Mind42 is free to use website that lets us brainstorm individually or as a group. We can create an account and record our ideas through simple mind maps. Mind maps can be group brainstorming a lot more effective because they save time when it comes to filtering our ideas. Click here to visit Mind42.
3. Imagination Cubed
Imagination Cubed is a very simple to use website that facilitates group drawing. We are provided a canvas on which we can draw with a red virtual pen. We can insert various shapes and text, draw straight lines, and change the canvas’s color. Our pen’s motion is also recorded and a “replay” button shows us exactly the motion our pen followed. We can invite our friends to our canvas via their email address. Once they join in we can draw simultaneously on the same canvas. Click here to visit Imagination Cubed.
4. Edistorm
Edistorm is a website that lets us add notes to a very large canvas. We can move around notes to prioritize them and sort our ideas. Under the free account we can create public and self brainstorming sessions. For a fee we can create private brainstorming sessions which let us share our canvas with users we invite only. Our invited users can view our canvas and add notes to it as well. Click here to visit Edistorm.
5. WiseMapping
WiseMapping is another website that lets users create mind maps as a group. The interface is user friendly and saves users’ time in figuring out the controls. We can embed ready mind maps in any website. Through WiseMapping we can also save our mind maps as image files or PDF documents. Click here to visit WiseMapping.
6. Think
Think is an online tool that lets users create interlinked mind maps. We can link one node of our map to many nodes and then shift them around as we see fit. The simplicity of use is what makes Think unique. Click here to visit Think.
7. Bubbl.us
Bubbl.us lets users sign up for an account and create mind maps as a group. The mind maps created on the site are colorful and have a variety of colors differentiating map nodes which makes them easier to spot and read. Click here to visit Bubbl.us.
8. Sneffle (Virtual Paper)
Sneffel gives users a whiteboard to draw on. The URL of the whiteboard can be shared with our friends for collaborative drawing. We can embed the whiteboard on our blog or website as well. Click here to visit Sneffel.
9. Glinkr
Glinkr, another online mind map creation tool, is great for online collaboration. We can create colorful mind maps that are easy to read. Plus we can attach additional descriptions and links to our nodes. The interactive interface lets us easily move the nodes of our map. Our maps can be exported to an XML file. Click here to visit Glinkr.
10. Solvr
Solvr is a free to use website that lets us post a problem and then share that URL with our friends whom we want to ask the solution from. This can be helpful when we want to reach a solution as group. The approach is that of an online forum but dedicated to problem solving. Click here to visit Solvr.
7 Powerful Tools To Get Maps And Directions Online
Online maps help us get directions to places we want to go. They also help us discover new places in the area we live. Some website even let us tag certain locations with notes which can be shared with friends and family, forming a travelogue.
If you are looking for such a tool to get maps and directions, then give my list below a read. You will find that each entry is unique and useful. See which one will suit you best.
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1. Mappy Friends
Mappy Friends lets visitors sign up with their Facebook or Twitter account. They can then view a map of the entire world and mark the locations they have been to. While marking the places they have visited, users can add notes with to a city or even a specific place in that city. Our Facebook and Twitter friends can view our visited locations and notes and we can view theirs. The result is a big map of directions which we can use anytime we want to travel to a new place next. Visit Mappy Friends.
2. Where I’ve Been
Where I’ve Been is another free website that lets us share our travels with our friends. In a manner similar to Mappy Friends, we can mark our visited locations on a map and then share it with our friends. Visit Where I’ve Been.
3. UMapper
UMapper is a online service currently in its beta. The website lets us create route maps. These maps are similar to the ones we can purchase from gas stations. The difference is that we can highlight the routes on our virtual map. For example if we have a house in the country and want to give our friends the exact directions, we can draw them on a map and share it with them. Visit UMapper.
4. Assemble
Assemble is an iPhone application that gathers information on our current location and conveys it to our friends. In order to use Assemble we first need to create an account on its site and then add our friends. Our location is sent to them via a short message. Visit Assemble’s website or get the Assemble app from the App Store.
5. Dear Map
Dear Map is another website in my list which offers a map sharing method. In Dear Map we create new maps from existing ones. We can add icons on our map and tour it with Google Earth. The map is then assigned a URL which can be shared with anyone we want. Visit Dear Map.
6. Simple Guide Tool
For people who need help in finding location on a map, Simple Guide Tool can be very helpful. The map used us extracted from Google Maps. A chat room is created by the user where he / she can invite other people. Other users see the same area of the map as being viewed by the user. This helps the user explain exactly (by combining the map image with textual chat) which location is being referred to. Visit Simple Guide Tool.
7. MapAList
MapAList is a unique address-mapping website. We can use it to pull up a list of addresses from a spreadsheet in Google Docs; the addresses are then mapped onto Google Maps. We can also modify addresses later and have them automatically synced on our map. To do all this we first need to allow MapAList access to our Google Docs account which is an easy procedure. Visit MapAList.
