Hiring a Team of Apps to Do More Faster

Here are 72 apps that meet a simple "Is it worth my time?" formula: the time you'd spend learning how to use them is less than the time you'd save by using them. This is a curated list of time-saving apps that will help you do more faster, by Joshua Henderson Geek-in-Residence and Director of Programming at Springboard Enterprises (www.springboardenterprises.org) from a webinar for the International Women's Forum of Northern California on August 7, 2012.

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9. BUZZ? 1
10. CROSS PLATFORM? 2
11. GOOD DESIGN? 3
12. VENTURE- BACKED? 4
13. BUSINESS MODEL? 5
14. INNOVATE QUICKLY? 6
15. BUZZ + CROSS-PLATFORM + GOOD DESIGN + VENTURE-BACKED + BUSINESS MODEL + INNOVATE QUICKLY = APPS I WILL TRY RIGOROUS BETA TESTING   APPS I WILL RECOMMEND
16. TIME SPENT LEARNING THE APP TIME SAVED USING THE APP < THIS IS THE “IS IT WORTH MY TIME?” FORMULA  
17. TIME SPENT TRAINING A NEW HIRE TIME SAVED HAVING THEM ON STAFF < THIS IS THE “IS IT WORTH MY TIME?” FORMULA  
18. MEET YOUR NEW TEAM T
19. MEET YOUR NEW TEAM T THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT THE INDUSTRY ANALYST THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT THE SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT THE SALES & MARKETING TEAM YOUR SECOND BRAIN THE NUMBER- CRUNCHER
20. OTHERWISE, THIS MIGHT FEEL LIKE DRINKING WATER FROM A FIREHOSE P r 3
21. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT CANDIDATES
22. DOODLE Instead of having to track down busy people and align their busy schedules…
23. GE.TT & WETRANSFER Instead of it taking forever to share large files…
24. TRIPIT Instead of manually organizing your travel logistics…
25. MILEWISE Instead of wondering how many frequent flier miles you have…
26. KAYAK & HIPMUNK Instead of spending hours to find the lowest hotel, flight or car fares at the best times…
27. SCREENLEAP Instead of complicated screensharing and webconferencing software…
28. HELLOFAX ($) Instead of a needing a fax machine to fax…
29. PICMONKEY Instead of using complicated software to make quick edits to photos and images…
30. DROPBOX & GOOGLE DRIVE Instead of ever being without access to your important files…
31. BACKBLAZE ($) Instead of a complicated back-up system for all of your files…
32. SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN CANDIDATES
33. THE BIG FOUR
34. HOOTSUITE Instead of posting separately to all your social media accounts…
35. BUFFER Instead of sharing all of your social media posts at the same time…
36. POSTLING Instead of logging into each account to find out who’s mentioning you…
37. TWERIOD Instead of wondering when is the best time for you to tweet…
38. FLIPBOARD Instead of browsing through streams of text…
39. INDUSTRY ANALYST CANDIDATES
40. NEWS.ME Instead of trying to read every link shared on twitter and facebook…
41. PRISMATIC Instead of wondering who you should be following on twitter, facebook or google plus…
42. EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT CANDIDATES
43. CUEUP Daily reminder of today’s activities…
44. RAPPORTIVE Instead of a static address book…
45. XOBNI’S SMARTR Instead of a static address book…
46. ACTIVEINBOX Instead of having a million emails in your inbox…
47. FOLLOWUPTHEN Instead of forgetting to follow up with someone…
48. BOOMERANG ($) Instead of sending and receiving emails in real time…
49. SANEBOX ($) Instead of manually processing every email in your inbox…
50. ATTACHMENTS.ME Instead of digging through old emails to find attachments…
51. AWAYFIND ($) Instead of missing important emails…
52. UNROLL.ME Instead of 50 daily deals and newsletters…
53. PERSONAL ASSISTANT CANDIDATES
54. RETAILMENOT Instead of paying full price for anything…
55. BUD.GE Instead of failing to exercise…
56. SIMPLEE & CAKEHEALTH Instead of trying to make sense of your healthcare bills…
57. ZOCDOC Instead of waiting weeks for a Doctor’s appointment…
58. CREDITKARMA Instead of paying for your free credit report once every year…
59. TASKRABBIT ($) Instead of running all of your errands yourself…
60. SPLITWISE Instead of giving out IOUs…
61. EYE-FI ($) Instead of manually uploading photos to your computer or online…
62. KICKSEND Instead of sending photos and videos by email…
63. DOXIE ($) Instead of having paper clutter your house or office…
64. SALES & MARKETING TEAM CANDIDATES
65. CARDCLOUD Instead of telling someone “I forgot my business cards”…
66. CONTACTUALLY Instead of failing to maintain all of your business relationships…
67. Instead of failing to maintain all of your business relationships… MINGLY
68. YESWARE Instead of re-creating the same emails again and again…
69. QUOTEROLLER ($) Instead of sending proposals that can’t be tracked…
70. MAILCHIMP Instead of sending boring text emails…
71. SMORE Instead of sending PDF and Word fliers…
72. NUMBER-CRUNCHER CANDIDATES
73. MINT & ADAPTU & PAGEONCE Instead of using Excel to track your personal finances and budgets…
74. WAVE ACCOUNTING & INDINERO Instead of using Excel to track your business finances and budgets…
75. 10SHEET Instead of using online software or paying for an in- house bookkeeper…
76. LEMON Instead of bringing around all of your credit cards, rewards cards and receipts…
77. ONERECEIPT Instead of wondering what you spend your money on…
78. MANILLA Instead of remembering all of your bills and rewards points…
79. BILLGUARD Instead of manually monitoring your bills for errors…
80. EXPENSIFY ($) Instead of submitting expense reports the old- fashioned way…
81. SHOEBOXED ($) Turn business cards into a digital database…
82. CANDIDATES TO BE YOUR SECOND BRAIN
83. EVERNOTE Instead of forgetting (anything) …
84. DASHLANE Secure password storage and easy login…
85. CLOUDMAGIC Instead of searching each of your apps for that contact/file/idea…
86. POCKET Instead of reading that web article now…
87. INSTAPAPER Instead of reading that web article now…
88. READABILITY Instead of reading online with ads and clutter…
89. MEMOLANE Instead of forgetting where you went or what you said…
90. NO APPS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS DECK DISCLAIMER SOURCES   INSPIRATION   TECHCRUNCH.COM PANDODAILY.COM BETAKIT.COM ANGEL.CO TNW.COM TECHCOCKTAIL.COM LIFEHACKER.COM SLIDESHARE.COM JESS3.COM SLIDESTHATROCK.COM @KAROLINASZCZUR DONNYEPP.COM NOTEANDPOINT.COM FONTSQUIRREL.COM CREATIVEMARKET.COM FLICKR.COM
91. GROVO Instead of having to rely on this webinar to learn new apps…
92. TECHNOLOGY CAN MAKE YOU BIGGER THAN YOU ARE
93. TWITTER: @joshuahenderson / @springboardent WEB: joshuahenderson.com / springboardenterprises.org EMAIL: joshua@springboardenterprises.org KEEP IN TOUCH W ’ r ?: r . /z70