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Productivity 2.0

By Shaunna Mireau

Confession: I make lists.

Although I usually go to the store without a grocery list, I always have a to do list front and center at the office. So much to do, so little time, it is important to be able to prioritize.

Since adopting a BlackBerry, I find myself using the MemoPad function, which syncs to my Outlook Notepad. This is great if I am the only one who needs the list, but what if I wanted to share the list with my team? I could share my Outlook mailbox or some folder in it, but that is not always efficient if I have a large team, and team members would have to make a point of looking in my mailbox.

I could post a list to a wiki, but formatting might take as much time as function, and moving things to a ‘done’ section could prove time consuming.

I could look into help desk ticketing software, which would accomplish many of the same efficiencies as a shared to do list, but those are often costly to get good functionality. What if my team and I don’t like this method of priority sharing after a test period? A financial investment in a software solution to easy shared lists might not be an easy sell in the current economy.

Low Risk Solution: a web app that will facilitate sharing lists! I did a little searching and found these:

• iPrioritize
• Remember the Milk
• Ta-Da List
• TuDu Lists
• Wipee List

All of these sites allow lists to be shared with other registered users.
All of the above except iPrioritize let me choose the login name as well as a password.
Ta-Da and iPrioritize allow for list subscriptions via RSS.
Wipee lets you update lists via Twitter.
Remember the Milk has the most features for prioritizing lists.
None of these sites have a cost.
They all offer a secured environment for your ‘list’ via login.

The choices for choosing a method to correspond with a goal have compounded with new technologies. If the productivity goal is to share to do lists among a team, why not give one of these solutions a try?

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).