Oliver Bell’s Weblog

First of all, Stephen McGibbon introduced me to FolderShare earlier this month and it has quickly become part of every PC we own… sharing information between home and work, between PCs at home, and photos between our family members in Singapore, Cyprus, England and America. 

The FolderShare team have started blogging and have kicked things off by announcing a new version, Windows Live FolderShare, with “better setup, a better system tray menu, and better performance on Windows Vista.”

www.foldershare.com has also been updated to makes managing FolderShare libraries and computers easier. It’s completely free, and available for Mac OSX too!

Second, recently I’ve been playing with a tool from ActionThis!, a New Zealand startup who are building upon the tasks capability in Outlook by sharing tasks out on the web so they can be managed by groups in disparate locations.

Some marekting blurb from their website;

• Use Microsoft Outlook to create and assign tasks to yourself, your team, your partners
• Organize and access these tasks from anywhere using Microsoft Outlook or the ActionThis! website
• Keep track of progress, projects, and workload with reports emailed to your email inbox
• Keep on top of overdue tasks with live alerts designed to help you take action quickly
• Export and analyse your progress with Microsoft Excel

ActionThis! has a free 30 day trial (the vote results will be in before it expires!).

If you’re interested in playing with it then you can sign up here.

It is a quiet day, post your favourite productivity tools in the comments section below… something that makes your life easier and more productive, regardless of OS.

(I’m aware that I’m a little Windows centric!)