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The best #social media tools and presenter there is. #smwknd Thanks @jeremycaplan

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For Social Media Weekend, I'm presenting today on 10 tools for visual productivity. For anyone who might find it useful, here are the links, slides and sandbox here: https://t.co/5LcHqdjsAm #smwknd

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Jeremy Caplan @jeremycaplan

For Social Media Weekend, I'm presenting today on 10 tools for visual productivity. For anyone who might find it useful, here are the links, slides and sandbox here: https://t.co/5LcHqdjsAm #smwknd

Clara Martinez Turco @ClaraMartinezT

Me every time @jeremycaplan presents a list of tools! He always shares useful and cool apps. His #smwknd presentation > bitly.com/cooltools2020

About Me

I’m an educator and journalist. I love creative tools that make life better. I spend a lot of time exploring new stuff — sites, apps, podcasts… I love sharing these in brief email bites. My day job: I’m director of teaching & learning at the Newmark Grad School of Journalism. I used to write for Time Magazine. Before that I was a violinist. More about me here on my site. Or on Twitter or LinkedIn or YouTube.

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Some past posts:

How and why I use Roam, a terrific new tool for note-taking that I’ve switched to from Evernote
Grain, Descript, Vowel and beyond: A summary post on some of the most useful new sites and apps launching this fall
Other posts lately touched on Pitch, Slash, new Canva features, and simple apps I’ve loved during the pandemic.
Otter—a useful tool for automatically transcribing Zoom calls or meetings.
How to get started using Notion — and new useful features in Google Docs
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