Communication & Scheduling

Gmail – please please please ditch Outlook!

AwayFind – safeguard your attention. AwayFind will let you know when you get something trulyimportant/urgent in your email, so you can spend more time outside the inbox.

Skype – call friends & clients around the globe for as little as 3 cents a minute. This is also what I use to do video chats with friends & family (and record my video interviews for this site!)

Google Voice – previously GrandCentral, this will give you one phone number to route and forward to any phone; highly customizable.

Tungle.me – a scheduling application that connects with your existing calendar to easily allow others to schedule time during your availability, anywhere in the world.

Doodle – easily schedule meetings & conference calls between multiple people, across timezones.

Twitter – learn how to use it, but quickly migrate to a good desktop app like TweetDeck.

Adium or Meebo can connect AIM, gTalk, MSN, Yahoo chat, Facebook chat and more.

RescueTime – don’t spend too many hours wasted on Twitter & chat. RT is a great free application that will help you track your hours spent on different projects and limit how long you can spend on time-wasters or social sites.