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Greg · 10 months ago

Hey Chris, another great fundraising site out there right now is www.createafund.com.

Scott Lockhart · 10 months ago

Hey Chris - Great list! You might want to also take a look at Regator as far as streams of information in blogs go. There's a lot of different stuff to find and enjoy.

prakash · 10 months ago

I guess this post has given me enough to work on for week.

I mean research work.

Terrific.

AJ in Nashville · 10 months ago

I've gotta tellya Chris, most of the time I read your posts and I'm blown away; I just feel like a blithering idiot. I mean, how do you come up with this stuff? *LOL* Awesome post, awesome info; extremely thought-provoking. It's good to blither every now and again... :)

Tyler Willis · 10 months ago

Hey Chris,

For project management I use Pivotal Tracker and absolutely love it.

Mark · 10 months ago

Chris, Great list of possibilities provided for us. Thanks Chris!

Saravanan S · 10 months ago

Great Compilation.. haven't tried most of them and haven't heard abt a few. Will look into each of them..

Derek · 10 months ago

Thanks for this list Chris. Lots to think about and mull over.

I agree with you on TubeMogul. It's a fantastic service for video distribution and its integrated analytics provide video producers with reports/metrics that are easy to decipher and are actually useful. I highly recommended TubeMogul to anyone producing online video content.

Marina Martin · 10 months ago

I've got to vote for Salesforce.com as the ultimate CRM choice. They even have a $99/year version. You don't want to have to work within the limitations of another CRM's prescribed fields and workflows ... you should be able to customize it exactly for your needs.

Mike Elliott · 10 months ago

Thanks for the list - this is the most useful blog I've seen all year. I'm a fanatic for web-based productivity tools and have tried a ton of them. Couldn't live without Evernote (especially the syncing w/ iphone part); Have used a bunch of CRMs, tried HEAP Systems' crmondemand.biz, now using Zoho CRM, settled on Intuits's billingmanager for invoicing, have been using gotomeeting.com for presentations (zoho doesn't let you initiate a meeting from mac); and HEAP Systems has a great wiki also called mytorch.net (all their apps have corresponding iphone apps). And skype with call in number and voice mail is the best business communications tool ever invented.

Barbara Swafford · 10 months ago

Hi Chris - What a fabulous list. Thank you for all the hard work you put into it, and for sharing your finds.

Jason · 10 months ago

Hey Chris...great list.

Don't forget to try:

99designs....the easiest way to find the right designer for a logo, website, business card or any other graphical element.

Manymoon...for project management

Cheers!

Dennis · 10 months ago

How do you do it indeed. (Still struggling to process a few other suggestions like Batchbook)

But what I find curiously missing in these categories (tools to work/connect etc) are the actual opportunities to make money. I have looked at countless opportunities and they're pretty much mostly crap. I would love to hear your take on good online marketing (directly for money - as opposed to productivity tools which are indirect.)

Not sure if I made that clear enough?

BTW I found one (opportunity) today. I don't want spam your site/comments with links, but I have a genuine blog post about it. I hope like hell you (folks here) won't prove me wrong and tell me how bad it is :-)

KRAPPS · 10 months ago

WOW! That's a heck of a list Chris and wonderful information ... I'm off to try many of your examples I am not leveraging. Agreed - Evernote is fantastic and really does, like their tagliine says, "Remember Everything" (also a very solid iPhone app) ... TweetDeck is a fantastic Twitter client, you might also consider Twhirl, especially after the update which will soon be released (I am a beta tester and just loving it) ... and indeed, PayPal is the "old guard", but I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Mint and will give it a shot.

Andy · 10 months ago

For project management, I recently stumbledupon colaab - it's a collaboration service that allows your colleagues to review and revise documents, images and video in real time.

Worth checking out.

Andy

Steve Haweeli · 10 months ago

Excellent, excellent resource list Chris. Thank you! I feel like I need to spend an hour on Brogan-Stuff every day!

Steve

Debra Askanase · 10 months ago

Chris, thanks for continuing to broaden my world. Point # 8 about broadening your weblog reading is right on target for EVERYONE. I get the best ideas from outside of my industry. Think about twitter searches for interesting keywords outside of your industry and see where they take you...

swbuehler · 10 months ago

RE: #24 I don't rock a Flip HD because I instead rock a Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera, which uses two "AA" batteries instead of an irreplaceable internal one and records to SD cards instead of a limited internal memory. It also records in AVCHD (H.264), meaning it goes into iMovie/Final Cut with no preconversion. It also does 60 FPS for slow-mo edits later and snaps 3 Mpx stills.

leslie carothers · 10 months ago

Now I know what I will be doing each and every moment I have to spare. You are a marvel, Chris. Thank you for this list.

I am humbled by your breadth of knowledge and your willingness to share it. Rockstar doesn't do you justice..more like messiah.

Ferg Devins · 10 months ago

this is just simply masterful Chris...thank you for this and other work that you bring forth as such powerful resources...do appreciate your twittphilanthropy...cheers

Mark Ferguson · 10 months ago

Chris, I read a lot of posts every day but it's information like this that I worth it's weight in gold. Knowing what other people are using and how really adds value and provides shortcuts through the clutter.

Thanks again and keep up the great work.

brandonacox · 10 months ago

As far as lists go, this is pretty awesome! Not even sure where to begin. I've delicious'd it and tweeted it and clicked all over it. It's sensory overload!

Thomas Ho · 10 months ago

This list alone would keep my http://bit.my/cit499 students busy for the rest of the semester!

Svein-Magnus Sørensen · 10 months ago

You really should look into Digsby (http://www.digsby.com/) for instant messaging. While quite new and still under development it is already heaps better than Trillian and with a sleek interace too boot, plus it supports most every IM-network out there, including Facebook-chat!

In addition it has social network integration with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, for both reading and publishing, as well email integration, not to mention web-based chat modules that you can link to your account, so web-users can chat directly to your Digsby-client from your website! Oh and it really light on systems resources too.

It truly is an amazing application, and just to mention it I have no relations with them other than being a user and a lover :-)

Alan Weinkrantz · 10 months ago

Chris, great list, but one thing: behind these platforms you need strategy. You need voice. You need message. You still need basics of PR that bring these disciplines together and help leverage the power of these emerging ways to tell be a great story teller.

Oh, being a good (I mean great) story teller really helps.

Matthew Mamet · 10 months ago

Lots of great ideas here, as usual. Nothing better than taking what already exists and re-discovering it or using it in new ways. I especially liked your mention of re-discovering delicious (yeah - i remember them!) by searching tags. Others, like Evernote, I already am in love with and blogged out, see - http://www.internettechboston.com/2008/08/18/ev... if interested.

Of course, as part of PermissionTV, you already know how I feel about the future of online video and how we can help marketers. We're really excited about 2009 as the breakout year for interactivity with video. Here's an example of how we've integrated our video player with the twitter stream. We call it our Twideo Player - http://www.permissiontv.com/live

Pali Madra · 10 months ago

Killer list and reading. Chris great work.

Mobile space is something everyone should be interested in and it has tremendous potential. Everytime I think I have come to terms with the potential of the mobile communication world something or the other comes in and stumps me.

jackie · 10 months ago

Chris,
any idea the difference between Loopt and BrightKite? Or is it a preference thing? So far, haven't found much value in Loopt, but maybe I'll try brightkite.

Matt Batt · 10 months ago

I would like to re-word this post as, "The SM Bible." Chris, this is an unbelievable list for those entering or already in the social media space! The one category I'm curious about is the "Small and Local" list. Can you elaborate on what you mean when you use "Small and Local" in this context?

Looking forward to passing this link (or should I say these links) on to many!

Thanks for the homework assignment:)

Alan Weinkrantz · 10 months ago

Also, has anyone seen or tried Lexy's quickcast? http://www.lexy.com

It's a service that sends news and entertainment "quikcasts" to your cell phone. You can broadcast to it as well.

Gavin Baker · 10 months ago

Hey Chris - for #13, have you tried Highrise? If so, I'm very interested in you opinion on it vs BatchBlue.

Thanks for the great list.

Zach Heller · 10 months ago

Chris, fantastic list of web ideas to ponder. Its a great way to start my day. A lot of these ideas, especially the Small and Local category gave me some great ideas of things to try out.

Always a good source of inspiration, thanks.

Mandy Boyle · 10 months ago

Absolutely awesome.
Thanks for giving me something to spend the next week trying out :-)

Robin Dagostino · 10 months ago

This really is a great resource. Thanks again for putting it together. I am always impressed how you know so much!

On behalf of Fancast, we are honored to be included (under the "the video thing").

We currently allow all videos to be embeddable. Did you have any error when you tried to use it? Let me know, so we can fix it asap.

Your Servant :)
Robin (for fancast)

chrisbrogan · 10 months ago

@Robin - yeah, I was dumb. @tomatfancast and @fancast on Twitter already fixed me, so I edited that part. (D'oh).

Craig Huffstetler · 10 months ago

Great list. It provides a lot of inspiration for where we're (the world) is going and what to aim for.

I'd be interested in some reviews of the products you've mentioned that aren't necessarily main stream or that have a plethora of reviews already out there.

RE: CRM
SugarCRM is also a very flexible CRM.

Ben Watson · 10 months ago

Great start! On the video front, we have been helping a lot of bloggers and marketers get their message out with interactive video - this means that everywhere your video is embedded or shared it links back to your sites or products instead of wherever it's hosted (which is not really relevant).

Check out http://overlay.tv - lots of folks on Twitter and in the marketing sphere already using it successfully and we are all on Twitter listening and helping to promote your work on our platform.

Thanks Chris!

frank · 10 months ago

Chris ... there is way to many things here to make use of! Now I'm going to find my self wasting to much time here on your site :)

Thanks for putting this together.

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http://twitter.com/franswaa

Michelle / chelpixie · 10 months ago

You've made a list to make someone's head explode. Congrats on becoming a little too @cspenn.

I second Evernote and Freshbook recs. Best note keeping and invoicing apps hands down. I can't live without Freshbooks iPhone app.

Thanks for the BatchBlue mention!

Howard Moorey · 10 months ago

Thank you Thank you Thank you Chris - I am absolutely blown away by the scope you introduce with this post.
And I cannot recommend enough getting an iPhone to handle all the SocMed with - multiple email accounts, plus apps for Facebook and Twitter! Best tool for the job! (And no, I am not connected with Apple in anyway).
Thank you so much for your tireless efforts - keeping us up to date with everything we need to know!
That's why I recommend you to all newbies as simply the best resource they need!

2thyme · 10 months ago

Some good, fresh ideas here. Thanks.

Matias Amoçain · 10 months ago

Awesome list that will have me studying each item for a week.
Saludos from Chile!

Ben Watson · 10 months ago

I know a lot of your readers haven't seen Overlay.TV yet and I'm not sure you have looked at it so I want to throw our name in the hat if possible. We have a free way for marketers and SM types to make any video interactive - full free-form DIY creative tools - that ensures your links, products and annotations are ported around the web as your video gets shared and viewed.

Several Twitter users have built videos for their blogs and sites, and a recent user was able to build viewers using Overlay.TV on the Bebo platform and generated nearly a million views on a single asset and thousands of clicks on the clickable parts of the video.

dean guadagni · 10 months ago

Chris,

Have you heard of http://Feedfuze.com ? According to feedfuze: "Feedfuze is not a reader client, or feed "joining" tool. It's a system that allows content publishers to generate their own feeds and display widgets by picking and choosing stories from many other feeds. We call these new targeted Feeds "FeedFuzes".

My friend Pat Kitano of http://Domusconsultinggroup.com, Real Estate strategist, utilizes feedfuze to help brokers position themselves as the go to source(s) of breaking news and trends in their regions.

This tool has a number of possibilities for those of us moving information forward, establishing our networking, and bringing solid information to our target audience(s).

Dean Guadagni
Business Director
http://innerarchitect.com

Bruno · 10 months ago

Great list indeed - miss only salesforce.com in Sales CRM...

Ben Watson · 10 months ago

@Dean - I agree - feedfuze is a great tool!

Timothy · 10 months ago

I hear a lot about Mint. I should probably check that out.

Thewirds · 10 months ago

What a huge roundup list you got there Chris, Well Done!!

Erwin Chua · 10 months ago

Hi Chris!

Love the suggestions! I've taken notes and will do some as you suggested! :)

All the Best!

Regards,

Erwin Chua
http://winning2win.com

chrisbrogan · 10 months ago

The thing about a list like this is I just picked some out of the air based on my own reasons for liking them or using them. YOU get to make the difference by talking about your stuff. Look at Ben from Overlay.tv . He's got a great product, and it's worth your time. By the way, I could write "57 Video Services to Check out." I could write "57 tools for bloggers." I could write "590 blogs not to miss." (if I scraped my Rockstars page.

But that's why there are comments, and why you could start your own blog post with the "41 Things Brogan Missed" with a link so we know it's there. : )

David Miller · 10 months ago

Great resource, as usual. Answered a few specific questions I had been wondering about.

About Google Calendar- Have you had any privacy problems with that service? Have heard some complaints, but haven't had time to check them out for merit vs. paranoia.

Keep up the great work-
David Miller

chrisbrogan · 10 months ago

@David Miller - not me. Anyone else?

Caitlin · 10 months ago

Stocktwits is definitely great, but I would add two more to the list: Freshbooks (invoicing and time management for freelancers) and WeSeed.com.

I'm partial to WeSeed as I work there, but it's a great tool for easing into the stock market, learning about what you already know about the economy, and using the power of community to see what other buyers and shoppers are favoring...and what it could mean about the market. We're still going through some growing pains, as it's a young website and constantly trying to keep up with the needs of our users, but it's a great place to go poke around.

Thanks for an awesome list! I was excited to see how many of the services I already take advantage of. ;)
Caitlin
@crosberg

Kærast · 10 months ago

Aren't there 63 missing possibilities here?

Ben Watson · 10 months ago

We ported all mail/calendar/docs etc to Google late last year using the pro service for $50/yr. Love it. No concerns. No hassles or issues either which is the major benefit over alternatives...

Pete Codella · 10 months ago

Regarding your comment about Google and local advertising: check out LocalAdLink.com. I'm impressed with what they have to offer on a zip code specific basis.

Lindsay · 10 months ago

Thanks for bringing up small and local - I think this is one area that needs work - I was just trying to find events and blog posts about Groundhog Day activities in Pittsburgh and it is a real challenge to search by geography - I think that would be a huge improvement to find local blogs.

Dan Cotton · 10 months ago

Great list. I'll be on the lookout for your review of pipeline deals. Cheers!

Jared Goralnick · 10 months ago

Thanks for this list, Chris--you're always tuned in and have such fresh insight, We're all appreciative of your launch of Brogan36HrDay.com, your invention that brought you 36 hour days to let you read more books and review more tools than all of us combined while still working harder and tweeting more than a border collie trained to press the Enter key every 60 seconds.

Thanks also for your recommendation to BatchBlue in Novermber...I'm still getting my feet wet with it, but I've been thrilled by their customer service and their supertag feature. Now I just have to start actually reaching out to people...

Now back to my Brogan Homework as listed above.

Russ Palmer · 10 months ago

INCREDIBLE list. Chris, I know you're not selfish and that you are happy enough hitting the Delicious front page, but this should have also hit the Digg front page getting at least an extra 50,000 page views. A no name submitter got to it before I did, so sadly this will not hit the front page of digg (http://digg.com/business_finance/57_Internet_Po...). I am in no way asking for money or a favor, I am only saying that this article would have hit the front page with the right submitter (me...I'm not cocky I swear). Feel free to email me or contact me on twitter. Like I said before, this list is incredible. You did not leave out a single detail, thanks for sharing! Oh, and TGIF

Shane · 10 months ago

Nice list - has taken a while to get through that one.

Consider Simple Sales Tracking in your Sales/Pipleline CRM review.

valto · 10 months ago

58...

loopt shari · 10 months ago

Hi Chris, Thanks for the terrific list! Lots of cool stuff to go check out.
@Chris and @Jackie: While Brightkite may be great for annotating the world around you - we think Loopt is great for connecting people to the world around them in a more actionable, face-to-face way. Here's a video that demonstrates how Loopt can help communities connect in the real world, in real-time:
http://www.looptblog.com/2009/01/loopt-at-natpe...

Greg · 10 months ago

For PM systems we went from Basecamp to Remine and redmine blows the doors off of basecamp. Check it out. Happy to answer any questions about redmine as well.

http://blog.xgineer.com/2008/05/22/xgineering-o...

Kirsten · 10 months ago

Great list. So much stuff, - lots of great fodder for my "Social Media Marketing for NonProfits". The amount of tools out there is a bit overwhelming. I'm keeping my paper to the basics, so as not to overwhelm my "media challenged" Prof. Though, I'll be printing this list for my own reference. Thanks for the expansive list!

Diane Beeler · 10 months ago

Great list. Thanks so much, Chris.

Sarunas Rackauskas · 10 months ago

Great list, Chris. I tried a lot of apps you mention. For search I liked what I saw in Leapfish (www.leapfish.com); Addictomatic is great for content aggregation (www.addictomatic.com). Cheers,
Sarunas
@sarunasr

gianouts · 10 months ago

Chris, Thanks for this excellent list. Lots of great sites here that I will need to check out.

Jon Lyles · 10 months ago

Thanks for the great list. Some sites I haven't heard of or didn't give much thought to.

Greg Philpott · 10 months ago

Hi Chris,
Great list! Over at mDialog we’ve made it easy to encode and upload video that’s optimized for the three screens (mobile, web TV) with a full set of tools that video producers want. Our Web and iPhone apps lets you deliver videos with interactive social features like surveys, polls, contests, etc. to your on-the-go audience. Add to that our new ad delivery platform, mAD (which can deliver geo-targeted ads by tapping into the iPhone’s GPS technology), and we're doing our best to provide the video tools publishers need! - Greg Philpott, CEO, mDialog

Melissa · 10 months ago

Next time, you'll have to add ZooLoo!

Julie · 10 months ago

You forgot us...www.ReferQuest.com!

It is a new online community (in alpha) that allows “Requesters” who are buyers and sellers to list their needs or goods without cost, along with a reward they will pay to a “Connector” who can put together a “Referee” from their friends and family network that has what the “Requester” is looking for. Anyone can be a Requester, Connector or Referee – even you!

Sasha Kane · 10 months ago

I like the way your mind takes in information, formulates it, then unfolds it's unconcious useful thought stream for the masses. Will bookmark this blog for sure and comeback to it many times in the next few months. As always Chris, thanks for sharing...

Like the new pic!

John · 10 months ago

Another great possibility to investigate on the project management software front is Intervals. Especially if you are in need of group task management and time tracking.

Troy Malone · 10 months ago

Thanks for the mention Chris. We are excited to be in the fray with Basecamp! We also recently integrated with Evernote. Now you can create tasks and messages from your Evernotes directly within Pelotonics...pretty cool stuff.

What a tremendous list!

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Joshua Kahn · 10 months ago

for you bloggers out there, Chatcatcher is a must have. Chatcatcher is an app that will find any posted URL reference to your blog post, whether full URL or a shortened version, and will post to your site as a comment or trackback. Currently works with Friendfeed, Twitter, and Identi.ca. Helps re-locate or co-locate conversations about your material back to where it originated. Created by @swhitley. Also plays nice with Disqus if you're using that for your comments.

Wendy Merritt · 10 months ago

Thanks! I hadn't heard of a couple of these. Some of these were things I set on the back burner...I guess I need to get on the ball :-) Some of these I used on a regular basis like Delicious...couldn't live without that. Just started with Evernote and am LOVING it (especially in lieu of the no more Google Notebook announcement :( )

Although I love the simplicity of searching an online calendar, like Google Calendar...I am still a Franklin Covey write it out kind of girl! I guess I am just tactile that way! LOL

I would just like to say that TubeMogul. is AWESOME! It has really simplified my life and extended my audience. No more going from site to site to upload my videos for me! and your stats are all in once place...BEAUTIFUL!

I use Digsby for IM-ing. It covers AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber and Facebook Chat (way better then the facebook chat sucky window thingy) PLUS check your email for GMail, Yahoo!, Pop, IMAP, AOL/AIM PLUS keep up with your social networks for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn...it is a huge time saver for me and my team.

blessings,
Wendy
Twitter: WendyMerritt

P.S. I love you on Twitter - you give great tips, links and insight (I use Twhirl for Twitter because it is a great desktop app for multiple accounts)

Glenn · 10 months ago

Valuable list. You should update it every couple months... /grin No, huh? OK, well I'll bookmark it for reference until its long out of date anyhow.

joe comp · 10 months ago

this must be a good news for me.thank you for this list and have a nice day

Alex Savic · 9 months ago

Very interesting post. Thanks for some good ideas.

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Michelle · 5 months ago

For online advertising, now use video ads that is localized and targeted. Use http://adwido.com , it's now free there Chris.

wholesale korean clothing · 5 months ago

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jun · 4 months ago

Thank you for this list.

virtual hosting · 3 months ago

Hey, you have given so many informations about possible investigations. Thanks for lightening this topic.

Anurag · 3 months ago

I would recommend HyperOffice for project management. PayPal is starting to piss me off big time as they've started to charge even for paypal-paypal monetary receipts. What the heck!

Mayur Jobanputra · 3 months ago

Great post! I didn't know about TubeMogul until you mentioned it. Online video distribution platforms is something I'm doing a lot more work on now.

RayMassie · 3 months ago

Just read about Eventful and Upcoming for the first time on this blog. Put it to use right away promoting a high school marching band festival. Great interface and easy to use. Love getting new stuff to see, ideas to build upon on the blog.

RayMassie · 3 months ago

Found Eventful and Upcoming for the first time here. Put them to work right away promoting a high school marching band festival at the school. Love reading the blog for all these sites and ideas. Guess I'm going to be real busy checking them out this week.

us drugstore · 3 months ago

Hi. I think, that it's a fantastic service for video distribution and its integrated analytics provide video producers with reports/metrics that are easy to decipher and are actually useful.

NRI · 2 months ago

Great post as always. Good information and i am going to try something like this for my blog.

Sam · 1 month ago

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secondhandcars · 1 month ago

Well worth a read, great points made - Well done and thanks for the points!

eddejoliet · 1 month ago

Great post. A number of the sites have proven very helpful in growing the traffic level to several of my sites.

Dippie · 1 month ago

Hi Chris, nice list, though you forgot to mention Music :)

I like Last FM ( http://www.lastfm.de/ ) for instance. Nice site that allows you to customise the music program. It's great to skip a tune you don't want to listen. For Music tickets you have already mentioned Eventful, I really do like their "Demand" function. Another cool site is Classictic ( http://www.classictic.com ), that sells only E-Tickets for classical music, world wide !!

Cheers, Dippie