Going Social Houston

Deciphering Social Media in Small Steps

mobile

Apps for Success

Added:

Need suggestions on apps to help you in you productivity and success? Check out “10 Apps You Would Find in a Successful Person’s Phone.”

In this digital age successful people are taking advantage of getting more done with their smartphones. You can learn from them by using some of these apps.

I was pleased to note that I have a few of these on my own phone:

  • Flipboard
  • DropBox
  • Dragon Dictation
  • Mint
  • Evernote
  • LinkedIn

Which are yours?

* * *

Source: 10 Apps You Would Find in a Successful Person’s Phone

Image source: JESHOOTS / Pixabay

My Flipboard magazine

Added:

Flipboard is one of those tools that started out just for tablets. The app pulls in your social media channels and creates a magazine/Pinterest-like interface, making long lists of articles and updates very visual. I loved it immediately.

When Flipboard started offering the opportunity for regular users to create their own magazines, and to designate and share content both from the mobile Flipboard app and from a bookmarklet, I created one just to try it out. I wanted to see how it works.

Every once in a while I remembered to share the magazine address: flip.it/hTHCA. But other than that, I just “flipped” content when I saw something interesting.

My magazine now has 23 readers and 321 articles. Even better, I am getting notifications that my content is being “re-flipped.” And, sometimes, it’s even links to stuff that I wrote myself. Not bad for an experiment.

I’m wondering what I might be able to achieve if I approach it with more strategy…

Have you played with Flipboard magazines yet? Have any best practices to share?

Mobile websites with Brow.si

Added:

If I had to make a choice between creating a mobile site that works well with all mobile devices and creating an app, I am going to choose the mobile site. Either way, you actually have to built the interface. Enter Brow.si, which GigaOm describes as  “a multifunctional toolbar that can be easily inserted in a responsive website through the addition of some Javascript.”  I’ll be checking this out as an option to make a mobile site work like an app.

— Posted by Sandra Fernandez

Sign up for Workshop notifications!!