toolbox tuesdays

Toolbox Tuesdays: Rapportive Brings LinkedIn Info into Your Inbox

Welcome to another Toolbox Tuesdays post, where we highlight tools that help coworkers Get Things Done with minimum headaches and cost.

This Tuesday we're highlighting...

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.

Why we love it: 

  • It is seamlessly integrated into GMail.
  • Type in someone's email address on the TO line and BAM, their LinkedIn and other public profile data appears on the right hand side of your GMail.
  • The profile summary has buttons to launch the LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc profiles. 
  • If you right click on those buttons, you can copy those links to the clipboard, making it super simple to then PASTE those URLs into your email to introduce persons A and B.
  • It's free! 

Check them out at: http://rapportive.com/ 

Toolbox Tuesdays: Steve Blank's Startups Tools

Image credit: J Boontje

Image credit: J Boontje

Welcome to another Toolbox Tuesdays post, where we highlight tools that help coworkers Get Things Done with minimum headaches and cost.

This week we highlight tools suggested by the great Steve Blank, often considered the greatest entrepreneurship educator alive.

Start here: 

And if you are hungry for more, browse straight to the extensive list of just about all the tools you could want here.

Toolbox Tuesdays: Streak

Welcome to another Toolbox Tuesdays post, where we highlight tools that help coworkers Get Things Done with minimum headaches and cost.
 

This Tuesday we're highlighting... 

 Streak is a light-weight, GMail-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. 

Why we love it: 

  • FREE!
  • Seamless integration into GMail. 
  • Their "pipeline" tools give us the critical CRM features we most need: ability to define a track communications with prospects, where they are in a process (sales or otherwise), meta-data we need about the prospects, etc.
  • Sharing a pipeline is as easy as sharing a GoogleDoc, and as flexible.  You can select different people to have access to each pipeline, allowing you to manage multiple clients all from one inbox.
  • Adds some great features to GMail like: re-usable text snippets, ability to schedule when emails go out, and very recently they added mail merge capability.  

Most CRM systems are so heavy most of us don't bother to use them, or use them well.  Streak has just  what we need and makes it easy to use.  You can read a detailed review from LifeHacker here.

You can get Streak for free here. 

Toolbox Tuesdays: Lastpass

Welcome to the first in a new occasional series, Toolbox Tuesdays, where we highlight tools that Clicksters have found to be... well... awesome.  Or to put it more professionally, tools that let us Get Things Done with minimum headaches and cost.
 

This Tuesday we're highlighting... 

Lastpass www.lastpass.com

Lastpass www.lastpass.com

We all know we SHOULD have unique, high security passwords for every website we use.  We should never store our passwords in file on our hard drive or even in our wallet.  

Yah... right.  

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool that created strong, unique passwords for every website you visited, remembered them, made them one-click ready when you land on the site (or made your MULTIPLE usernames and passwords all 1-click ready for you), was easy to securely share specific passwords with others (spouses like to have banking info, I'm just say'n...).  And hell, wouldn't it be cool if the company proving the tool did not sell your private info, did not have access to your passwords, AND gave you a version for free?

Don't take our word for it, here is a great review from Lifehacker. 

You can get LastPass here.