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Tech Tools Index

December 18, 2008 by RootSpaceOnline

This is a collection of tech tools that we think are helpful and valuable.  We will be adding to this list, and (better) figuring out an open way to add information and share ideas and tools, so we can all be helping out each other. :-)  

Obviously, this page is just a rough draft, but hopefully these tools prove to be helpful for some of you out there.

(This list was initially compiled by David Munir Nabti and Jessica Dheere.  Other ideas or suggestions?  Add comments below, or register on this website and edit this page.)

Mapping and Information visualization:
Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/ 
Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
TouchGraph: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Mindmap
Mindjet: www.mindjet.com
Tag clouds through Wordle.net or tagcrowd.com
Screenflow

Collaboration Tools:
Zoho:    www.zoho.com
Google Docs: www.google.com/docs
Google Apps: www.google.com/apps
CiviCRM: http://civicrm.org/

Information sharing:
Delicious: www.delicious.com
Wiki: http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Wetpaint Wikis: http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/
Twitter (and a related program called Twhirl)  

Web creation:
Drupal (CMS): www.drupal.org (open source)
Joomla (CMS): www.joomla.org (open source)
WetPaint: www.wetpaint.com

Screenshots:
SnapzPro (paid) and Jing (free) jingproject.com

Media creation:
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (audio)

Chat management:  Adium

Contact management: soocial.com

Educational/research tools
Moodle: www.moodle.org
Itrainonline: www.itrainonline.org
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
SurveyMonkey: www.surveymonkey.com
Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org

Other interesting tools
Wayback Machine: www.archive.org

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