1) You can use
delicious to find the best in relevant content.
2) Find influential and relevant content on Alltop.com
3) Set up Google alerts on relevant search terms.
4) You can use Google, technorati, Google blog search to find blogs in your niche.
5) Use
Google scholar to find academic research and analysis about your content.
6) You can create a personal
RSS reader (for instance Google reader) for your favorite blogs and websites. You can then favorite and (automatically) share the most relevant content.
7) Create a widget for your favorite RSS feeds.
8) Tag your content. (Get your
folksonomy on)
9) Group the widgets in a social media dashboard. You can also use
Netvibes or Alltop to quickly aggregate your favorite blogs.
10) Socially bookmark your favorite content and aggregate your favorites via a
lifestreaming platform like
Friend Feed and
Soup.io11) Post your presentation on
Slideshare.net12) Post a video of your presentations on
Vimeo,
Viddler,
Blip.TV or
You Tube.
13) You can post your best presentations with the Slideshare widget for Facebook and Linked In.
14) Find the best images with
Flickr advanced search or Google images search.
15) Post your speaking notes, references, or bibliography on
Scribd.
16) Host a virtual speaking, presentation, or training event in Second Life.
17) Collaborate on speaking and event planning on
Google Docs,
Zoho,
a Wiki (or
Social Text), or
a Wordpress blog. If you choose a wiki you might check out this
direct comparison between a range of enterprise wikis.
18) Use hashtagging to share your content on Twitter.
19) Use
Wordle to create word pictures or "beautiful word clouds."
20) Watch
TED talks,
Fora TV, or
Academic Earth for more video content.
21) Learn a new skill at one of the many video learning websites to make your presentations better or more engaging.
22) Increase your productivity (get your
GTD on)
23) Do audience analysis online.
24) You can learn about human motivation with
Maslow's hierarchy of needs or the hidden persuaders.
25) Have fun and launch a
tumblr on your passion.
26) You can post about your event on Meetup, Craigslist, Facebook events, and Yahoo Upcoming.
27) Find people to sell your presentation skills to on
Guru or
Craigslist. Or perhaps you prefer a
crowd sourcing site like
Crowdspring for logo and graphic design.
28) Do budgeting and accounting. For instance, you might like a combination of
Expensify which provides free expense reports and an accounting application like
Quickbooks.
29) Do
project management.
30) Post your slide decks and event photos in
Rock You and
Animoto for presentations. Or you may prefer
Flickr or
Google's Picassa for creating slideshows.
31) Create an
e-portfolio for personal branding and credibility. For instance, many people use
Visual CV.32) Create your brochure content and purchase amazing templates from
Inkd or Apple (iWork).
33) Start a
Wordpress blog on your subject or guest blog on a more influential site.
34) Do research to find someone to interview or survey.
35) Get your open source learning or
creative commons on. In fact, you can do a
creative commons search here.
36) Find a
Ning community. Start a
Ning community. (Ning is a free online social networking community that takes 60 seconds to launch)
37) You can choose a free or low cost video conference tool like
Skype,
UStream,
Livestream (formerly Mogulus), or
GoTo Meeting.
38) You can use
Cover it Live to provide live blogging of a conference.
39) This post from Read/Write Web called "
Web 2.0 backpack for students" is quite helpful for content creation.
40) Visual Blast suggests these "
28 online image and photo editing tools" to help you with all your slide creation needs.
41)
Sliderocket is a cool new introduction to the world of presentation design.
42) Mashable has a great and useful list of creativity and visual thinking resources which introduces "
30+ Mind Mapping Tools."
43) Crowd source information for your presentation. You can use
Linked In Answers for starters.
44) Create a survey using
Survey Monkey or Google Docs and e-mail it to relevant individuals.
45) Self publish on
Lulu and
learn the basics of self-publishing 101.
46) Launch your manifesto on Slideshare or
ChangeThis.
47) Learn about personal branding from
Tom Peters.
48) Find
Enterprise 2.0 applications and software as service applications for small business like
Intuit.
49) Leverage the
best of the newest in web 2.0 applications at Webware.
50) Or check out the
Guardians 100 most useful websites.
51) Wetpaint suggest
several widgets to use in its platform, which can be helpful.