Planning Tools & Hacks
- AP-TV : Videos for Account Planners
- Delicious: How to mine bookmarks for consumer insights
- Diagram Designer : Simple and lightweight flowchart tool
- Findings: Collect, share and discuss text clips from Amazon Kindle and the web.
- Google Drawing : Completely intuitive drawing photo-manipulation utility
- Google Reader: How to backup and search all the planners' tweets
- IBM Manyeyes : Create visualisations based on user-defined datasets
- Lexicalist : Popular topics and slang in the US (by demographic)
- Market Research: A Sampler of Free Market-Research Tools
- Open Planning Ware : Free for all planning charts
- Personas: Create a visual profile of how the Internet 'sees' your brand
- Phoenix Checklist: Checklist of questions used by the CIA to think thru problems
- Plannersphere Search Engine: Customised search that returns results only from planning blogs
- Sample Size Calculator : Calculate sample size based on target population
- SlideFinder : Inspiration for your next PowerPoint presentation
- SwingVine: Track what's trending right now and why
- The Planning Canvas : Organising the process of strategic planning
- TweetPsych: Get a psychological profile of a person based on their tweets
- Twitch Point Planning
- Twitter Directories: 12 Ways to Find Brands and Companies on twitter
- Twitter for Research: Why and How to Do It, Including Case Studies
- Twitter: 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams
- Web Seer : Compare Google Suggest results
- Worldometers : World statictics updated in real-time
- Yooouuutuuube: Where to watch Youtube videos as a sequential series of frames (and why)
Briefing formats/examples
Social Networks for Planners
Heather Le Fevre's Planner Surveys
Planning Careers
More planning resources
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- JWT Planning Guide
- The Anatomy of The Ideal Account Planner
- The Role of Account Planning
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Planner Advice
Presentation Resources
- Cassette Generator
- Catalog Card Generator
- David Armano's Visual Thinking Archive
- Flip Title : write upside down, like this [uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʇıɹʍ]
- How to embed Youtube videos in PowerPoint presentations
- Image Mosaic Generator: Convert any of your pics to an image mosaic
- Periodic Table of Visualisation techniques
- Quotes for Planners
- Spell With Flickr
- Twitlogo: Generate Your Own Twitter Logo
- Wordle - create word clouds
Utilities
- Capture Full Page : Screenshot entire web page as a continuous image
- Convert PDF Documents to Word and vice versa
- Copypastecharacter: Copy and paste accented characters and symbols
- Down for everyone or just me? - Check if a site/blog is down for only you or for the rest of the world
- How to delete accounts from any website
- MediaFire (File Transfer Utility)
- Melt Mail : Create temporary email addresses that forward mail to your own and are discarded after a preset time
- Time Zomes : A visual representation of time zones
- Universal Viewer : Open almost any file format
- Verify e-mail address: Check if an address exists or not
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