© 2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group December 3, 2013

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Review and demo free and paid applications – Useful for business development, capture, and proposal development stages (and daily life!) Discuss: Overview Type Vendor Cost All apps work with Windows 7/8 Purposes Similar tools Website

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group PC (some Mac) applications Evernote – idea, projects, & notes management across web, PCs, Macs, mobile devices (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, WebOS) Snagit 11 – screen, text, video capture, markup, and management utility for Windows, Mac NXPowerLite – on-the-fly file compression for Windows, Mac (NXPowerLite 6 just released for Office 2013) Wordman’s Hiliter – highlight multiple words and phrases in MS Word documents (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) for Windows)

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group PC (some Mac) applications Wordman’s ReviewIt! – combine comments from multiple reviewers into one MS Word document (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32- bit, 64-bit) for Windows Wordman’s Acrogen – create acronym list for one or multiple MS Word documents (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) for Windows Wordman’s Art Tables – tool for easily laying out artwork in a document using floating tables, called Artwork Tables (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) for Windows

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Evernote Type: idea, projects, & notes management across web, Windows, Macs, mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS) Vendor: Evernote Cost: free (basic), $45/year (premium) Purposes: – Create text, photo and audio notes – Clip web pages including text, links, and images – Synchronize your notes across your devices – Search for text within snapshots and images

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Evernote Evernote add-ins: – Skitch - Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches (Windows, Windows Touch, Mac, Android, iOS) – Penultimate handwriting app (iPad) – Evernote Web Clipper - save anything you see online—including text, links and images—into your Evernote account with a single click (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE) – Evernote Clearly - Clearly makes blog posts, articles and webpages clean and easy to read. Save them to Evernote to read them anywhere. (Firefox) Similar tools: MS OneNote Website:

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©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Evernote Evernote Premium useful features

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Snagit 11 Type: screen, text, video capture, markup, and management utility Vendor: TechSmith Cost: $49.95/person, 30-day free trial version (Windows, Mac) (English, German, French versions) Purposes: – Screen capture utility useful for solutioning, storyboarding, writing, graphics, training – Take a photo of your computer screen, including long webpages – Create quick demo videos – Enhance images – Organize screen captures with auto-storing and tagging features – Share images and videos to presentations, social media sites, and more Similar tools: MWSnap, CNTL + PrtScnMWSnap Website:

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group With Snagit's easy-to-use tools, you can quickly create images and videos to give feedback, solve a problem, or show off something cool. Snag any image or video. Enhance it with effects such as callouts, arrows, and stamps. Save, share, or send your creations to anyone, anywhere! Some great sharing destinations include: Snagit 11

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Snagit makes communication easier everywhere! Education:Business:Home: Video lessons & handouts Research Collaboration Training Communication & collaboration Research & record keeping Training Documentation Communication Research Record Keeping Snagit 11

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group NXPowerLite Type: on-the-fly file compression Vendor: Neuxpower Cost: $49.95, free 30-day trial (Windows, Mac) Purposes: – Compress files from within MS Office, or integrate with client to compress attachments automatically as they are sent MS PowerPoint – avg. 88% reduction MS Word – avg. 84% reduction MS Excel – avg. 76% reduction JPEG and PDF files reduce up to 95% – Files remain in original format (look and function identically to originals, but are much smaller) Website: desktop/ desktop/

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group NXPowerLite

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s Hiliter Type: Highlight multiple words and phrases in MS Word documents (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) Vendor: Wordman Cost: $50 (PC) Purposes: concurrently check for multiple words and phrases, each with a different highlight color and search criteria (great for annotating an RFP) Website:

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s Hiliter

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s ReviewIt! Type: combine comments from multiple reviewers into one MS Word document (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) Vendor: Wordman Cost: $50 (PC) Purposes: – Password protect multiple proposal documents before a review in a single action*, and after the review combine comments from multiple reviewers in a single action – Create tracking sheet in Excel or Word to address comments Website:

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s ReviewIt!

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s Acrogen Type: create acronym list for one or multiple MS Word documents (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) Vendor: Wordman Cost: $50, free 30-day evaluation (PC) Purposes: create abbreviation list for single proposal document or master list across all proposal documents, including where each abbreviation was found and how many times it was found Similar tools: Acrowizard, Acronyms Master Pro Website:

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s Acrogen

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s Art Tables Type: tool for easily laying out artwork in a document using floating tables called Artwork Tables (MS Word 2007 and 2010/2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) Vendor: Wordman Cost: $50, free 30-day evaluation (PC) Purposes: – Insert floating tables to hold graphics – Automatically insert manual or automatically numbered captions – Move table around page with single mouse click – Create floating table-based Focus Box with accompanying styles Website:

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Wordman’s Art Tables

©2013 Lohfeld Consulting Group Conclusion Bonus – LifeHacker.com Questions? Your favorites? Upcoming webinars – Beth Wingate, APMP Fellow, APMP CEO Managing Director, Lohfeld Consulting Group, Inc Fox Hunter Place, Fairfax, VA Office: Cell: