Top 10 Apps for Students For Time Management

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Maybe students have an excuse to be bad at time management. After all, they tend to be young and have not had a lifetime of practice in order to figure out their time management skills. Sadly, if they are in college or university, then excuses are not going to fly because they have to get good at time management or run the risk of failing or being expelled. So, here are ten apps that a student may find good for time management problems including tools that will help a student work out their time management, and tools that are going to save them a bit of time.

1 - Project Management: Asana

It seems only fair that the list be started with an app that is able to help a student manage his or her projects for time. It helps by giving the student a virtual assistant when it comes to projects and time management.  You may use it to organize your projects or communicate with others about projects. It is rather good for collaborative efforts where many people have to focus and work on one task at a time.

2 - Todo List: Things

This is an app you can use to manage your time more efficiently, which is ideal for what a student needs, even a language student. This is a to-do list app, and you may be wondering what a to-do list app is going to do for a student who wants to learn a new language. The trick is to write your to-do list in your foreign language so that you have figure it out in order to figure out what you need to do later on in the day.

3 - Speek

This is a time saving tool that helps students to launch calls from their iPhones without ever having to dial in a number. They are also able to have conference calls and save money and time by talking to all the right people at the same time. It is a fun app and a time saving app that students are going to enjoy and are going to get a lot of use out of, especially if they are strapped for time.

4 - Byword

If you have to do a little bit of creative writing, then this app may save you a lot of time. It has a very simple and basic user interface which means you can whip it out and use it easily and quickly without any fuss. It is a time saving device for the fact that you do not have to wait a minute for it to load or have to do anything fancy when it is open. You simply open it up, take a note or do a bit of writing and that is it.

5 - YNAB

This is going to save you a lot of time worrying about bills and other finance trouble. YNAB means You Need a Budget, and its aim is to give you a budget that you can follow and keep in order to save time and fuss and future trouble. You will be able to get on with your life instead of having to keep putting out your financial fires. You can even pre-populate your fields to make the whole process a little easier.

6 - Notes/Idea Capture: Drafts

This is good for a number of time saving uses. The most obvious one is that you can take down notes and store them in a safe place. But, it is actually handy for taking down time management notes. Instead of opening up your diary and flipping through options, you just write down the task and the date and fill them all into your diary or organizer at the end of the day.

7 - Email Client: Mailbox

Manage your mail a lot easier with this app. It is only available on the iPhone, which is a bit of a shame. But, it is still great for saving time by allowing you to sort through your messages a little more quickly. The powerful sorting features make it all the better for using.

8 - Sanebox

This is a time saving app of the highest caliber. The last app will simply allow you to sort out your messages once you have laid your eyes on them. This app sorts out your messages before you lay your eyes on them so that you will not have to spend as much time with the Email client: Mailbox app sorting them out. You can filter your emails as they come in so that the more important ones, work ones, family ones, spam ones, will all have their own box in your email inbox.

9 - Lastpass

This is a password manager. It is not a great idea to trust your passwords to an app, but if you are going to do it then do it with an app like this. It keeps your passwords secure but also saves you lots of time from not having to enter them into your phone all the time. It is a real time saver if you use it right.

10 - Mindmup

When you mind map it can take a long time, so you can make it as efficient as possible with this app. You can get it done in half the time, and do it when you are out and about too.

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Top 10 Paid Social Media Monitoring Apps

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There are time when doing your own social media monitoring just isn't going to cut it. Here are the best ten social media monitoring apps that money can buy.

1.) Scout Labs

Scout Labs describes itself as "the simple, most intuitive way to measure and manage social media." Scout Labs allows you to set up a search that your entire team can monitor, combs through millions of social media sources, and offers real time metrics for buzz volume, customer sentiment, industry analysis, and competitive share.

Scout Labs tracks sentiment analysis, which means you can see not only whether people are talking about your product or brand, but also whether they love or hate it-it's sort of like a real-time, online focus group. A nice feature Scout Labs offers is the ability to turn any result into an action oriented task, and then assign it to a team member. Scout Labs also offers daily email alerts and a saved bookmarking feature that allows you to save and share any particular result you find important. 

2.) Traceworks


Tracworks tagline is "set goals, plan, execute and optimize online marketing campaigns for all channels in one simple platform". TraceWorks allows you to automate your paid search and direct email marketing campaigns, along with tracking your organize traffic. Tracworks offers a dashboard that includes: a completely customization overview of all your activities, a summary of your natural vs your marketing clicks and conversions across all types of activities, and a personalized overview of goals and KPIs. 
One of their best features is Marketing Cloud TV, which features videos from customers, other businesses, and even thought leaders to show you what’s hot in the field right now. It can be a huge help when you’re struggling for new ideas and to share your own when you’re really onto something.
One of their best features is Marketing Cloud TV, which features videos from customers, other businesses, and even thought leaders to show you what’s hot in the field right now. It can be a huge help when you’re struggling for new ideas and to share your own when you’re really onto something.

3.) Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows you the ability to setup certain keywords to monitor on a dashboard, automatically track the keywords on blogs, image sharing sites and micro-blogging sites, and then have it report back to you with an analysis of the results. Data is captured in real-time as discovered and delivered to dashboard analysis widgets.

4.) Shoutlet

Shoutlet allows you to create a social media campaign, distribute the content, track the results of your campaign's effectiveness. Shoutlet allows for the creation of a campaign across a large variety of platforms-email, blogs, video, pod-casts, mobile advertising, and more. Shoutlet allows for distribution to both free social networking sites, such as Facebook and YouTube, and also for paid content placement across its partners networks. Shoutlet allows for real-time tracking of your campaign. As far as analysis goes, 3 different types of reports are offered: impressions (what people thought of your content), engagement (how many people clicked on, watched, listen to, etc., your content), and influence (how many times your content was passed along).

5.) iKarma

iKarma is all about harnessing the good things people are saying about you online. The main principle is that people like to do business with people they trust-and that trust is gained through referrals, testimonials, and word of mouth marketing. iKarma allows you to capture customer comments, display online testimonials, manage word-of-mouth, and get customer referrals and track and organize the results.

You may notice SocialOomph doesn't put a lot of emphasis on having a “pretty” interface. This belies just how powerful their service is when it comes to social media monitoring! Keep an eye on all your channels and any others you deem worthy. You can also add various feeds for technology, breaking news, and everything else you want, all while posting from one location.

7.) Wildfire

With the idea of ideas “spreading like wildfire,” the Wildfire app shows you just how true it can be when you start monitoring your progress. Of note here is the “comparisons” page which lets you compare different companies against each other. For example, you can see how Domino’s is doing versus Papa John’s and Pizza Hut in the social world.

8.) Pardot

Pardot is a B2B online marketing suite that offers a huge variety of features and services, including email marketing, landing pages, CRM integration, campaign reporting, lead scoring, web analytics, sales alerts, search features, AND automation. Advanced micro-level web analytics allows Pardot to capture all relevant prospect activities, both on and off your site, and help you determine who is showing the most buying signals. There's also an iPhone app and desktop prospect monitor.

HubSpot focuses on 3 things: getting found online by more qualified visitors, showing you how to convert more visitors into leads, and giving you tools to close those leads efficiently. HubSpot has a variety of graders: website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, keyword, page, and link-all of which give you ratings based on carefully chosen criteria, then show you how you can improve your numerical ratings. HubSpot helps you with lead generation through gathering intelligence and automated lead nurturing. HubSpot also tracks your reach, your competitors reach, and your blog's analytics. 

10.) Sentiment Metrics

Sentiment Metrics is an online reputation management service that not only monitors what is being said about you, but whether what is being said is positive, negative, or neutral. Sentiment tracker gives you detailed reports that you can break down by gender, age group, or location. It also sends you email alerts every time something negative is said about you online.

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Mickie Kennedy, founder and president of eReleases, the online leader in affordable PR distribution since 1998.
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Sweet Outside, Rotten Inside: Candy Crush and Mobile Security Apps

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In March 2013, Candy Crush Saga experienced sweet victory by bumping Farmville 2 out of its coveted first place position as the most popular game on Facebook.

Since Candy Crush Saga began, the social game has experienced success and fanfare. In fact, Candy Crush has more than 43 million users accessing it monthly.

If Candy Crush isn’t your social game of choice, there’s always Farmville 2, Words with Friends, Texas HoldEm Poker, Mafia Wars, and the list goes on. Whether you’re an active player or sign on every so often, these games are a hit with Internet thieves and users alike.

Candy-Coated Bad for You Apps

As you can image, with such a large user following, personal identity pirates are not far behind in figuring out creative ways to hijack your private information. The Better Business Bureau, Consumer News and Opinion Blog, reports that fake Candy Crush apps have been appearing as quickly as its rise in popularity.

So, how are identity thieves cashing in on your game playing sweet tooth? One strategy is to add computer code for ad networks to these imposter apps. The end result is the ability to collect personal information about users that they might prefer to keep private.

Reports indicate these fake apps tend to target users of Android phones more than other smartphones. In a Trend Micro analysis, 293,091 apps were found to be malicious and of these, 68,740 were found on the official Google Play store. Even more alarming, around 22% of these malicious apps were found to leak information about the user.

Keep Your Information Away from Sticky Fingers

So, what can you do to avoid these malicious, information poaching apps -- while still enjoying your favorite way to pass time? Here are a few recommendations to keep your private information secure and your thumbs busy.

First things first, install security apps on your devices. Security apps are a great and easy safeguard, because they detect and delete malicious or high-risk apps.

Only download apps from trusted and recognized developers. Since there are fewer barriers to entry in the Google Play store than the Apple store, you will want to do additional research on the developer to ensure they are reputable and have a history of creating known and trusted games and applications. Also, if you have a jail broken iPhone, avoid installing unauthorized or underground applications. Although this isn’t a fail-safe, this strategy can certainly help keep your private information secure.

I recommend thoroughly reading the app and developer’s page before downloading anything. Information about the developer and any comments from other users about the app can be particularly revealing. User comments are a wealth of information, so check them out and incorporate these comments into your decision to download or not. And if there are no comments, and the app has been released for more than a few months, take that as a sign that the app may not be safe.

In addition to reviewing the app page, be careful about the permissions you grant. If you do not feel comfortable granting permission to your device’s GPS or contacts -- then don’t. Think of it this way, if you can’t imagine how your game play is enriched with the app having access to your device’s GPS or contacts, then it’s probably not necessary. So, deny, deny, deny.

Written by: Written by: Noah Gamer is a driven business leader with experience in Internet marketing, Web software development and eCommerce. Currently, he develops Internet security software for Trend Micro.