Collaboration Tools and Digital Presence

Denisse Ramirez

Collaboration Tools.

What are Collaboration Tools?

Collaboration is commonly defined as working with another individual or group in order to achieve something. A collaboration tool can be something as simple as a whiteboard in a conference room that people gather around and use to brainstorm and solve problems.

EvernoteNote/task managment

What is Evernote?

Evernote is a cloud-based software service designed for creating, organizing and storing various of media files. Whether it’s a text document, a photo, a video, an audio file or even a web page, Evernote keeps all of your stuff stored up in the cloud through your very own personal Evernote account.

How can Evernote help you:

The ability to share notes and whole notebooks with classmates, coworkers, family, etc.

The ability to take and attach voice memos and audio to a note right from within the app.

The ability to attach files (spreadsheets, images, docs) to any note.

The ability to scan text in a photo using Optical Character Recognition technology.

The ability to set reminders for yourself for various tasks, goals, and projects from within the app.

The ability to sync automatically between all devices, meaning you can access your notes even when offline.

Best of all it is free. There’s a premium version that offers a few bonus features, but the freebie offers all of the above.

Important features of Evernote

Mobile offline notesYour notes are available anywhere, anytime, even without an internet connection. Perfect for flights, international travel and working on the go.

Business card scanning

Leave behind your stack of cards by scanning them using Evernote's camera. Capture and store all contact information, a photo of the card and choose to automatically pull additional profile details from LinkedIn.

PDF annotation

When a picture’s worth a thousand words, you can avoid lengthy email dialogue. There’s no quicker way to call attention to contract edits or design changes.

Faster image recognition

Find what you’re looking for, faster. We scan your images faster, so text within them is searchable sooner. Find text in handwritten notes, Post-it® Notes, whiteboard drawings and more.

Note history

You can view past versions of notes to review changes made and, if you wish to, revert back to any of the older versions.

Digital Presence

What is Digital Presence?

Today, individuals and organizations need to have digital presence; having a digital presence simply means that you occupy space online. Few years’ back digital presence meant an organization having its own website. Today most of the individual have digital presence because of boom in social media.

Why is it important to have Digital Presence?

• With the rise of the Interne, a robust digital presence is more important than ever for businesses looking to reach new audiences and gain more customers.

• That digital presence is essential when we are already tired of talking. This is very important because of the major online media that enables a two-way relationship where the consumer can communicate with the company and wide open, exposing their problems as well as complaints and questions.

LinkedINProfessional Connecting Tool

What is LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a social community focused on business, business and employment. Based on the profile of each user, who freely reveals his work experience and skills in a real job resume, the web puts millions of companies and employees in contact.

How can you use LinkedIn to improve your network of professional contacts?

Check the "Updates of your Network"

They are on your home page on LinkedIn, it is the news feed, there you can choose to see all the updates or your contacts (among many other options).

Check them periodically to see what your contacts are about, what kind of news they share, what other members of the community relate to, etc. That information can also be received by email.

Export Contacts

Do you want to transfer your LinkedIn connections to another platform? LinkedIn allows you to. Just click on "Contacts", "My Contacts" and then download with the mouse until you find "Export contacts", you have the option to save them as .CSV or .VCF files.

Take advantage of advanced search optionsLet's say, for example, that you want to develop contacts in a specific company, for whatever reasons. Go to advanced search and in the search field type the name of the company that interests you, then sort the results by "Relationship" and check if you have any connections of first or second degree with any of the employees.

Share your LinkedIn updates with members of your groups

In addition to posting your updates to LinkedIn, for example, a blog post, the most important thing after clicking Share is, in the same update, click on Share again and select at least "Share in Groups" where you must type the name of The groups with which you want to share your update.

Use OpenLink to send messages to people you're not connected

LinkedIn allows you to send messages only to people with whom you share a first-degree relationship.

How to know who belongs to OpenLink? Because next to your profile photo, a circle is formed consisting of points.

How LinkedIn can help create a Digital Presence?The professional network Linkedin has become in recent years an idea platform for those who are interested in making known their digital 'resume'.Via LinkedIn I can have a profile where the other members can access my information, as my experience in the field. Also it puts me in contact with multipes companies and people thus of this way to find work without complications. In Linkedin the size of your network is very important. The broader your network of contacts (first-degree contacts) the greater your chance of accessing second-degree contacts.

Conclusion

Collaboration is commonly defined as working with another individual or group in order to achieve something.Today, individuals and organizations need to have digital presence; having a digital presence simply means that you occupy space online.