Corey Creed, of Hippo internet marketing, recently spoke at the The Official Charlotte SEO & Search Engine Marketing Meetup, touching on the subject of being more productive online. He goes over some pretty interesting methodologies and practices that he has implemented in his day to day life that has dramatically improved his workflow. Later in the presentation, he covers a variety of tools he uses to maximize productivity (my favorite was the action machine) . Runtime is about 35 minutes and it’s jam packed with great info.

How to Get a LOT More Done Online – in less time from David Wells on Vimeo.

What are your favorite productivity tools? Mine would have to be Launchy, an awesome app and web launcher.

MobyPicture is a photo sharing site that allows users to send out one photo via email, mms, or uploading directly online and having it distributed over a vast number of photo sharing and blogging platforms.

A lot of people use Twitpic, Yfrog, Twitgoo, TweetPhoto, Img.ly, but they are all lacking syndication with other social media sites. Mobypicture fills that gap by aggregating Flickr, Facebook,  Blogger, Wordpress, Twitter, LiveJournal, Youtube, Tumblr, Brightkite, Vimeo, Forusquare.

It’s easy to set up (in video below) and an excellent way to share photos and videos with people in one simple message.

To use MobyPicture all you have to do is send the picture via email or mms to your custom mobypicture email address (usernamer.password@mobypicture.com) with the subject as the message you want associated with that picture. Mobypicture handles the rest and blasts it out to the services of your choosing.

My Video Tutorial on MobyPicture.com

How to update multiple photo sharing sites at once with MobyPicture.com from David Wells on Vimeo.

This list can originally be found over at Small Biz Trends . I added some more users that I thought appropriate. Please E-mail me or comment below if you would like to be added to the list. Enjoy.

To follow the entire list in just one click here:

The List of 90+ Twitter Users that every small business or organization should follow

Intuit – Intuit

Intuit helps small businesses thrive. Follow @QuickBooks @IntuitPayroll @IntuitCommunity @IntuitDeals @IntuitInc. Contact @1practicalgal

aaronwall – aaron wall

SEO + U = Win!!!

Smallbizlabs – Steve King

Tracking, analyzing and forecasting small business trends. Current project: home based businesses

Kirasw – Kira Wampler

social media, community, small business gal at Intuit; mommy of 2 darlings, wife of @eclecdish

LaurelDelaney – Laurel Delaney

Passionate about helping entrepreneurs and small businesses go global! President, GlobeTrade.com

erin_bury – Erin Bury

Community Manager @Sprouter, brand-new online collaboration tool for entrepreneurs. Journalism grad, TwestivalTO co-organizer, event nut. Self-professed nerd.

rkeuretig – Rachel Kim Euretig

live: San Francisco, work: Intuit Small Biz & QuickBooks PR, play: travel, ski, food, wine, Cal (go Bears!)

YFNCG – Matt Rodela

Small business owner, computer guy, blogger @ Y.F.N.C.G., Data Center Systems Analyst for midsize pharma company

newentrepreneur – newentrepreneur

News and insights from BusinessWeek’s Small Biz staff

tweetbizbook – tweetbizbook

Twitter as a Business Tool: The book by author Rodney Rumford. Use Cases, Insights, Tips,Best Practices for marketing and business professionals & entrepren

AngelaAtHP – Angela LoSasso

HP Social Media — I’m in the storytelling business. How can I help you tell yours?

craigsutton – CraigSutton

Partner at Ikon Marketing Group

Scobleizer – Robert Scoble

Geek and technology enthusiasm from a blogger who grew up in Silicon Valley.

YouCanHelp – Charity

Have a cause? We would like to help. Tweet out your message with @youcanhelp and we will help you spread it

RobMcNealy – Rob McNealy

Blogger, Podcaster, MBA, Idea Creator, Serial Entrepreneur, Libertarian, Speaker, Floor Guy, Free Mason, Foodie, Medical Devices, Rapper

y2vonne – Yvonne DiVita

Your marketing to women expert with a love for pets, dogs and cats and more.

swoodruff – Steve Woodruff

Pharma Consultant. Marketer. Entrepreneur. Connector. Idea Communicator. Conservative. Husband. Father. More hair than Seth Godin…http://bit.ly/swoodruff

JustinRFrench – Justin R French

‘Pay It Forward’ Entrepreneur, Social Media Strategist- I Educate, Speak, Train, And Consult Small & Mid Sized Businesses How To Use Social Media For Business

smallbusiness – SmallBusiness.com

Small business news and tweets from SmallBusiness.com’s Rex Hammock (@r).

tamar – Tamar Weinberg

proud new mom and social media consultant/blogger among other things. i am also mashable.com’s community director. feel free to msg me – tamar at mashable

smallbizanswers – smallbizanswers

Providing the best small business related stories from across the web. Tons of topics… profiles, sales, marketing, employees, finance, legal, social, etc.

Shama – Shama Kabani (Hyder)

President of ClickToClient.com, Web TV Show Host, Social Media Marketing Speaker/Trainer

ducttape – John Jantsch

Small business marketing and digital technology coach and author of Duct Tape Marketing

RedWire – The RedWire Team

Powered by @sarahprevette & @erin_ bury. We connect entrepreneurs with experts, investors, partners & potential clients & provide fresh advice.

mainebusiness – Carl Natale

Carl Natale publishes advice and info for the Maine business community

tacanderson – Tac Anderson

Social media anthropologist. Communications strategist. Business model junkie. [career path] Startup -HP -MBA -VC EIR -Waggener Edstrom.

bplans – bplans.com

Palo Alto Software – Makers of Business Plan Pro, Marketing Plan Pro and Email Center Pro

sreardon – Skip Reardon

Strategy execution fanatic, small business blogger, business coaching proponent, social media advocate, guitar enthusiast, foodie, and wine aficionado

gowithabc – America’s Best

America’s Best Companies wants to help your small business. Resources, advice, health care discounts and much more!

andybeal – Andy Beal

Founder of Trackur.com, author of Radically Transparent, editor of MarketingPilgrim.com, and marketing consultant.

CTCTHelp – CTCT Help

Our Online Hours Map Phone Hours: 9-9

MarketingProfs – Ann Handley

Head of content, editor, social media, marketing, great food, good wine, writer at www.annhandley.com.

stefantopfer – Stefan Töpfer

CEO & Chief Customer Care Agent of WinWeb. We provide software and business services to start and run a small business.

nfib – NFIB

America’s leading small business association, promoting & protecting the right of our members to own, operate and grow their businesses.

bizunite – BizUnite

Helping member-focused organizations save money through a customizable, web-based B2B marketplace of thousands of small businesses.

onstartups – Dharmesh Shah

Founder and CTO of @HubSpot. Blogger @OnStartups and developer of twitter.grader.com.

postsmallbiz – postsmallbiz

Sharon McLoone is a small business blogger for washingtonpost.com. She covers small business politics and policy, entrepreneurs, small business advice and write

cparmele – chelle parmele

Social Media Manager for Palo Alto Software, makers of Business Plan Pro.

richardbranson – richardbranson

Chairman of Virgin Group

startupprincess – Kelly King Anderson

Entrepreneur, Fairy Godmother to Women in Business Startups, Coach, Catalyst, Optimist, Wellness Advocate, MOM of 3!

bizfilings – BizFilings

BizFilings can help you start a business. We form corporations and LLCs in all 50 states. Protect your assets and save legal fees with online incorporation

Terra111 – Terra Andersen

Internet Business Consultant, Internet Marketer, Brand Lover, Web Junkie and Puppy Lover – http://www.terraandersen.com/blog

Infusionsoft – Infusionsoft

INFUSIONSOFT: It’s simple: Email Marketing, CRM, eCommerce. Fix your follow-up and double your sales. We have sweet marketing software made for small business.

CarrieHill – Carrie Hill

SEO, Twitter Addict, Conversion Evangelist

winningwp – Mark Harbeke

I’m the webmaster for Winning Workplaces, a nonprofit that helps small businesses improve their work environments and, thus, productivity.

danschawbel – Dan Schawbel

The leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y. Author of Me 2.0, blogger, speaker, publisher & social media specialist at EMC

JenniferLaycock – JenniferLaycock

Kid Wrangler, Online Marketer, Professional Blogger, Buffy Addict, Bento Maker. Chair of http://www.unleashedconference.com

SharnQuickBooks – sbrockett

I do PR for QuickBooks and am often looking for unique small biz stories and trends.

MackCollier – Mack Collier

I’m a social media consultant helping companies and agencies understand how to use social media to grow their businesses. Founder of #blogchat

SannWood – SannWood

I am the Operations Manger for Small Business Trends, LLC and I’m here to make friends, stay up to date and learn a few things so lets connect!

BusinessZone – BusinessZone.co.uk

Guidance for small business entrepreneurs. Free e-bulletins: http://is.gd/xu9R LinkedIn: http://is.gd/aHQB Other feeds: @dan_martin @smallbizgrants @the_pitch

SmallBizExpo – Small Business Expo

Small business resources. The ultimate online resource directory for small business owners and entrepreneurs. www.SmallBusinessExpo.com

BrianMoran – BrianMoran

Security is an illusion. All there is in the world is opportunity.

wiredprworks – Barbara Rozgonyi

Wired Branding Conduit |Social media marketing PR Speaker | SMC Chicago Founder | Publisher, wiredPRworks | Hungarian | Kids [20~17~15], Cat=tabby

bbb_us – BBB | US

News and advice for consumers and businesses from BBB headquarters.

spencertyler – spencertyler

providing a successfull business blueprint to entrepreneurs

Rieva – Rieva

Small Biz & Entrepreneurship Expert, Writer, & Speaker

TimboReid – TIM REID

I’ll show you how to make your business so irresistible that it makes competing with you far less desirable.

Timberry – Timberry

President Palo Alto Software; entrepreneur, business planner, baby boomer, blogger, teacher, father, married 39 years

BusinessDotGov – BusinessDotGov

The Official Business Link to the US Government

IndieBusiness – dM @ Indie Business

CEO, Indie Business Network. Award winning small business advocate. Radio talk show host. Business networking leader since 2000.

OfficeLiveGirl – Amanda – Office Live

Working with @OfficeLiveGal on Microsoft Office Live.

shashib – Shashi Bellamkonda

Interested in helping people & participating in Social Media. Establishing a Listening post of Network Solutions with http://blog.networksolutions.com

smallbiztweets – SmallBizPod

SmallBizPod is the podcast for startups, SMEs and entrepreneurs. We aim to inspire, inform and entertain and hope our tweets will do too.

eMom – Wendy Piersall

Serial entrepreneur. Adorkable Web 2.0 lover. Craftaholic. And the founder of Sparkplugging & Woo! Jr. blog networks.

RhondaAbrams – Rhonda Abrams

USAToday columnist and author of bestselling books for small business and entrepreneurs. Speaker. Co:The Planning Shop, books and tools for entrepreneurs.

barrymoltz – barrymoltz

Entrepreneur, Small Business Author, Speaker and Consultant

donnafenn – Donna Fenn

Wrote Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business; contrib editor at Inc. magazine

ConstantContact – Constant Contact

Constant Contact®, Inc. (CTCT) is a leading provider of email marketing and online surveys to small businesses, associations and nonprofits.

andertoons – Andertoons

Cartoonist, stay-at-home dad, bon vivant!

hollisthomases – Hollis Thomases

Agency CEO; web marketer. Author of “Twitter Marketing: An Hour A Day.” Love travel, food, wine & tweet all 3. Silly. Healthy skeptic trying to keep it real.

StacyBrice – Stacy Brice

Guru to/about Virtual Assistants. Founder: AssistU.com. Biz coach. Online community blder/consultant. Champion of women. Voluptuary. Happy girlie girl. Say hi!

OfficeLiveGal – Microsoft OfficeLive

We have now moved to @Office_Live. Same tweets, same info, same people. Follow us at @Office_Live.

ScottAllen – Scott Allen

Social media is my middle name. I wrote a couple of books about it. I help entrepreneurs. Occasional Tweefight World Champion. Sigueme en español @entrelaza.

BrentLeary – Brent Leary

a guy trying to make sense of it all

IntuitPayroll – IntuitPayroll

Helping small businesses manage their payroll-related needs.

Kara_atDELL – Kara_atDELL

Small and Medium Business Communications/ PR for Dell

sernovitz – Andy Sernovitz

The Word of Mouth Marketing Guy

lizstrauss – Liz Strauss

Founder of SOBCon, brand strategist, It’s only fun when it’s brilliant strategy, high return, AND connects customers as people.

SusanReid – Susan L Reid

Small Business Start-up Expert. Steelers fan. Host of Accidental Pren-her Show

ZaneSafrit – Zane Safrit

I’m learning as I go. Happy to share what I know and look foolish with what I don’t.

smallbiztrends – Anita Campbell

CEO, Small Business Trends, an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month. Small business success … delivered daily

NikkiPilkington – NikkiPilkington

Helping small businesses to promote themselves through Social Media & SEO – ask me about TweetMentor!

inc5000 – Inc. 5000

Inc. Magazine’s annual feature of America’s fastest growing private companies. Follow for updates on this year’s list and conference. Ask me any questions.

intuitcommunity – Intuit Community

Loves Questions and Answers!

It has been a while since I have updated my blog and even longer since I have been throughly delighted by a new web 2.0 app.

Aardvark. Vark for short. Is something I recently stumbled across and can’t seem to get enough of it.

Vark is a community based question service that taps into your existing network of friends via various social media sites as well as it’s own very expanding community.

Think of it like yahoo questions on steriods.

Each user sets up his or her profile with keywords for subjects that they would like to answer. Varks magic does the rest.

Simply send an email or IM or googletalk to vark with a keyword of the subject matter and within minutes you have a number of answers from other Varkers.

Works with:

• Gmail Chat
• Google Talk
• Yahoo! Messenger
• AIM and AIM.com
• MSN Messenger
• Windows Live
• Hotmail
• Any website or app you use to send email

The service, thus far, has been a tremendous help with getting some real human reviews on products and finding long lost resources that I couldn’t get out of Google.

I recently came across a new firefox plug-in called WiseStamp. It is a tool that automatically inserts an html signature into your Gmail (also supports AOL mail, Yahoo! mail and Hotmail) while composing an email.

What does it look like?

Why should you use it?

Well for starters, the internet such a vast place with so many destinations that being easily findable is KEY.

Every email that you send serves its original purpose of communicating a message AND provides a myriad of ways for people to easily connect with you at their convenience (via the hyperlinked contact buttons, much like the addtoany share buttons on most sites)

I am a strong believer in usability/accessibility. This gives your signature a personality and acts as a portal to all things that are you. By providing these hyperlinks you are doing the legwork so that other people don’t have to. 

With the set up being completely intuitive and only taking about 3minutes, I don’t understand why everyone would take the time to further promote their online spaces/brand.

Non-Profit Use

I would Highly recommend using this plug-in for non-profit organization that have little or no budget for their email marketing. It will most certainly take that barrier of people having to find you online (where ever that may be), while making your emails appear more professional looking.

Application Launcher to improve workflow

One of my favorite things I have ever found in personal productivity software is hands down a program called Launchy. It is a keystroke launcher application that can launch websites, programs, open folders, and even add an event to your google calendar.

How does it work?

Glad you asked. Well launchy is ridiculously easy to use. Once you download it, simply install and then launch it with ALT+Space. The launchy box will pop up and you type in what you are looking for. Launchy is a smart program and learns your shortcuts the more you use them.

For example: Alt+space f opens up the facebook homepage in firefox much quicker than manually opening your browser and opening up the bookmark or typing it in the nav bar.

For Example: Alt+Space my d , quickly launches my documents. Instead of having to mouse through the start up menu.

My Favorite Launchy Plugin

There are many different plugins you can get to make launchy even more useful! My personal favorite is the yubby plugin. The yubby plugin allows you to search numerous sites without having to go to them or clicking on the mini search nav bar on the top right corner of your browser.

For example: if I want to do a google image search without having to navigate to google and then click on image search, I can simply Alt+space (to pop-up launchy) and then another “Space gim kangaroos Enter” and launchy will open up a tab in Firefox with my search query displayed.

And this happens :

You can download the yubby plugin here. All of the Yubby shortcuts are listed here.

My Favorites include:

• (Space) gim (search query) for google image search
• (Space) ebay (search query) for ebay item search
• (Space) g (search query) for google search
• (Space) wp (search query) for wikipedia search
• (Space) imdb (search query) for a internet movie database search

Why this program is important

This may seem like just another program that will actually decrease productivity (probably because the examples given about seem like time wasting websites) but think about how much time it take to navigate to different folders and websites. I would guestimate that at least 10 seconds are wasted each time we are searching for that god forsaken lost folder. Now multiply that 10seconds by 20 times a day when finding a file or navigating through a website you don’t have to.

Thats 200seconds a day. Well, hey doesn’t sound too bad. Unless you add up at 3.3minutes a day of wasted time and muliply it 5days a week and 44weeks a year and you are looking at 12hours of work time wasted on navigating and not actually doing what you want as an end result.

You could use a nice hour break every once and a while! So give launchy a try. I think that every company should employ this or something similar to just plain make peoples lives easier and more productive.

Additional Resources:

Screenshot tour: Tweaking Launchy

Launchy Plugins

When I first started my journey into the social media realm. I stumbled across things like twitter, plaxo, friendfeed, linkedin…. (The list goes on.)

I thought to myself that these were pretty interesting applications,
But I don’t have the time in my busy day to day life to manage 25+ different social media profile updates.

I recently started using a using Ping.FM, a new social media aggregation service. It brings all of your status updates into one box to click and post.

It has given me a chance to try out more of these social media outlets while saving me considerable amounts of time.

You have the ability to set different posting profiles as well right from your igoogle desktop. You can setup Ping.fm to post to just your blog/s or just to your facebook like profiles like myspace and bebo.

• Here is what it looks like on my google homepage as a new widget.