One of the many hats I wear is a Girl Scout troop co-leader. Even though it is a volunteer position, we are part of a large non-profit organization and that doesn’t make our day-to-day business challenges that different from for profit organizations.
For example, one of my biggest challenges is to properly share information with my troop leader and new co-leaders. This is very much like the core team in our business.
Throughout the year, we are always on the look out for fun venues and activities the girls can participate in. Museums, farms, skating rinks, tours or cooking classes. There are also ideas we suddenly think of when we’re out and about. For example we get news of organizations that need help, community service projects, craft ideas and all that… stuff.
Personally, I store these snippets and bits of information in Evernote. When I find awesome links to venues and information online, I clip it and store it there. I also have Evernote on my phone so when I am out and about, I can snap a photo, record audio or enter a text note and have it automatically synced.
Another option that works similarly is Springpad. However, Springpad is organized more like a social notebook. You can also see what your friends have shared. Evernote on the other hand is more personal. Both let you control access to your notebooks. But there is one big thing that Springpad has – which is alarms. You can work around that and still get email reminders for Evernote.
I still have not decided which to recommend to our leaders but am leaning heavily toward Springpad because it is organized in a more fun way and it has apps like meal planners, reusable grocery lists and household project planners that I believe will make it more attractive to women and therefore make it easy for them to adopt.
To be sure, you can do all that with Evernote but you will have to structure it yourself – part of the beauty of Evernote – I think that’s why in the beginning I had such a difficult time getting people excited about it.
For general business/work setting, I think Evernote is awesome for teams to share snippets of code, ideas, suggestions, information, audio, files when working on a project. Evernote also operates on a large variety of platforms – Windows, Mac, Android, PalmPre, iPhone, Windows Mobile and more which makes it tops in my opinion. Give it a go – if you haven’t already. Click here for an Evernote review.
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