I’m blessed in that it doesn’t take me that long to come up with blog ideas, and once I have an idea, I can whip out a post in a decent amount of time.

When I’m ready to blog I login to Wordpress, type it up, read it over, and I’m done. I’ve never felt the need to “pre-type” my posts into Microsoft Word or any other program.

I don’t like to be left in the dark so I decided to try out a blog writer to see if it helped at all with my productivity. So here I am typing to you from BlogDesk and I must tell you, this program sure is making my life easier.

Now when I have an idea I can quickly load up the program and start typing. No waiting for an internet connection, logging onto the admin panel of the blog I want to write, trying to remember by password, and all those other things.

BlogDesk allows me to blog and go which is important since I have several blogs to maintain.

• Setup is a breeze.
• Adding pictures is extremely easy, there’s even a pic editor within the program.
• Cost is amazingly free.
• Managing multiple blogs is now a snap

I’m sure there are more savvy programs but for now BlogDesk works for me.

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Call a number to leave a message for yourself to remind yourself to do something…

This is appealing because….?

That was my first impression of Jott when I read about it on one of the marketing blogs. Nevertheless I am not one to let a technology pass me by without trying it out so I signed up for it.

Jott makes my life easier because sometimes I don’t have my small notebook with me and I come up with an idea. Normally I type it in my phone’s notebook but then I forget to go back and look at it. With Jott, I call an 800 number, leave a message for myself and it shows up in my email as text with a link to the voice message. I can also have it sent to my phone as a text message and if it’s a future to-do it allows me to set a date and time for reminding.

There are also ways to Jott to your blog, Jott to Amazon, Jott to Twitter, and a variety of other Jott to’s that I will probably never use.

I’ve read some concerns from people who didn’t appreciate that Jott uses a combination of live transcriptionists and voice recognition software. Normally I am a privacy freak but it doesn’t bother me if someone listens to my Jotts as I don’t plan on using it for anything dirty. Actually I would think that they used software more than people because the text to my most recent Jott is not even close to what I said. Here’s a sample:

I said: This is biased. They could have tried harder to find a positive spin on the issues

It wrote: I felt disbaised(?) and they could have tried how to expand a positive [...] on the issues

All in all it’s a useful service if you get a lot of ideas while you are on the go. However, if you can remember to bring it, a pen and paper would work just as well.

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I don’t like talking on the phone (more on that later) so if you want to reach me and get a timely response, then email and IM are the way to go.

I’ve found that most people have AIM, some prefer Yahoo, and others like MSN. Then of course there is Google Talk but who uses that?.

How is a person supposed to keep up with all these different screen names and applications? Do you just pick the one you like the best and say “oh well” to any potential contacts or clients that don’t use it? Of course not.

The solution is Pidgin, which is an application that lets you chat with more IM clients than I can name.

* AIM * IRC *MSN
* Bonjour *QQ *SILC *SIMPLE
* Gadu-Gadu *Sametime *Zephyr
* Google Talk *XXMP *Yahoo
* Groupwise *ICQ *Myspace IM

Now I can chat with a friend, catch up with an associate, and network with a potential partner all with one application. The best part about it is that it’s free. That is why Pidgin makes my life easier.

P.S. If you have a Mac then try Adium.

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