Granted a note-taking application should be performing well in this type of setting. You’re taking notes at a conference with various sessions. The difference though is that there’s so many other nice touches that make it very helpful in this situation.

One of the first things I did was to import the PDF of the conference schedule and session agenda into the notebook I setup just for the conference. After that I grabbed the user specific free wi-fi account access for me into the notebook so I’d have that available.

As I was in sessions I could quickly take notes and organize them with keywords and tags for later retrieval as needed. Throughout the day as people would mentioned various websites and applications, I could visit the site and then use the Evernote bookmarklet tool to import that link to those sites right into my conference notebook.

Although I didn’t use my camera much today, if I wanted to, I could have copied photos that were taken in each session and throughout the day into the notebook and already prepare captions and information about what was happening in the photo to be ready to use for an upcoming blog post.

Evernote just made keeping track of all this information throughout the day certainly manageable. I love this tool the more I use it.

I will say I need to work on the keyboard shortcuts, because I just realized you can use CTRL+SHIFT+B to format a list as bulleted notes. That would have come in handy during the sessions. I’ll remember that for Day 2 of Blog Indiana.

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Evernote Fits Perfectly for Conference Attendees

- Business & Blogging: blogs for business: how to use them effectively for results.
- Copyblogger: copywriting secrets
- Digital Money World: everything you wanted to know about e-currency and how it is transforming online commerce.
- Franchise Pick: secrets and information about franchises
- Home Biz Notes: the ins and outs of how to start and run a successful home business
- Pimp Your Work: tips, tricks and secrets on how to “pimp your work” from best utilizing technology to surviving cubicle life.
- Slacker Manager: everything from book reviews on management to talk about productivity tips and tricks.

I’m excited to have this addition to the network, hopefully you’ll also find some topics and resources of interest to you in our new channel.

Thanks for reading!

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b5media Launches Business Channel

1. Course 4697: Introduction to the New Microsoft Office User Interface
2. Course 4622: What’s New in Microsoft Office Access 2007
3. Course 4623: What’s New in Microsoft Office Excel 2007
4. Course 4624: What’s New in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
5. Course 4625: What’s New in Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
6. Course 4626: What’s New in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
7. Course 4627: What’s New in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
8. Course 4628: What’s New in Microsoft Office Word 2007
9. Course 4629: What’s New in Microsoft Office Visio 2007
10. Course 4698: What’s New in Microsoft Office Groove 2007

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Office 2007 Training Resources

• Sun Star Office
• Adobe Acrobat
• IBM: Lotus SmartSuite
• OfficeZealot.com
• OpenOffice.org
• Microsoft.com
• Microsoft Office Online
• Intuit Quickbase
• Woody’s Office Portal

I’m currently looking through the OfficeZealot site and Woody’s Office Portal. Of course I’ll let you know if I find out anything interesting. The OfficeZealot site is the only one I really see with a section for Office 2007. They’ve got a great OPML file to grab all the main players in the Office 2007 blogosphere.

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Various Office Resources

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Office 2007 on Wikipedia