Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you doing this fine day?
Me?
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We have a treat today because we are going to be talking about my favorite apps that
I'm running on my iPhone.
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This question here came from Talende who said how the heck am I doing this beautiful day?
I'm doing great, Talende, as I mentioned off the top of the show.
A sworn Android user but you keep see me using iOS and it has made him or her—not too sure—curious.
So went out and bought an iPad Air 2 thinking Steve uses it all the time, it can’t be
bad and I’m liking it already.
But basically asking me to run down my favorite apps in iOS and leaving out the obvious ones
like Evernote that I use all the time.
So I'm going to spend a few minutes and show you some of my favorite apps.
Now these might not be long term apps.
These are the ones that I'm kind of caught up with right now and liking but some of them
I've been using for a very long time.
So where to begin?
Where to begin?
I know where we’ll begin.
We’ll begin right here with YouTube because one of the things that I, as a YouTube content
creator, need to constantly do is stay in touch with what’s happening in my channel.
YouTube has an app available to both Android and iOS called the YouTube Studio App which
allows me to go in and to be able to view everything that’s happening in my channel
as though I was in the Creator’s Studio on the desktop.
I can go in and I can see all of the statistics for the watch time and the number of viewers
that I've got, all of that sort of stuff for my videos.
I can go in and I can look at details of any individual video just by tapping on it.
Now this isn’t a viewing app.
This is an app that allows us to manage the environment.
So if I want to go in and see all of the analytics, just how this video is doing, I can see all
of those sorts of things, how people are finding the video and where they’re discovering
it from.
All of that information comes to me here within the YouTube Creator Studio App.
So this is something that I use all of the time when I'm out and running around.
I find it incredibly useful.
Now I've been doing a lot more with Twitter these days.
I've been trying to do a lot in Twitter but with Twitter, my commitment is only kind of
one-directional.
I like to publish content into Twitter; I don’t necessarily want to engage too much
in conversations on Twitter.
But to help me publish more on Twitter, I'm using the Twitter Buffer app which helps me
go through—don’t ask me again; I'm not going to share; sorry—and it allows me to
find if I take a look down here at the bottom of the content or in the analytics—let’s
start in the analytics—it tells me which of my posts that I've got buffered, that I'm
sending out in Buffer now, it tells me how well they’re performing.
I can scroll through this very quickly just when I've got a few minutes to see oh, this
is a fairly popular post; it’s had three shares.
So what I do with that is a re-buffer these posts.
The thing about Twitter, if you’re curating content as I do, we’re basically sending
out additional content and basically using it to help people stay on top of all the things
that I find interesting that they might find interesting, if you’re using it that way
sending out a tweet once is next to useless.
If you’ve got good content, you’ve got to send it out 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 or 20 times
because of how fast the information goes by within Twitter.
So Buffer is an app that I'm quite liking using and it’s one that does quite well
for me as well, I think.
Anyways moving along to other tools, I can’t not talk about Slack because Slack is for
us one of the most valuable tools as far as communicating and managing my team.
Why is it not working the way I want it to?
Come on, Slack, you should slide.
There it is.
I actually four different teams that I work with, the people at Social Media Examiner,
a Slack course, guys that I do a productivity Blab with and my own DottoTech community of
all of the people that work with my on DottoTech, all here and I communicate with them all in
Slack.
This is our unified messaging client for all things that we do.
So Slack to me is a total winner.
I also am increasingly liking Google Photos which I've talked about in the past so I won’t
even bother opening that right now but that’s one that I like.
But speaking of the imaging world, Adobe Post has kind of caught my attention.
Adobe has released a graphics tool for social sharing, for social graphics.
It’s really set up as an Instagram kind of tool.
It’s all square format but it allows you to choose any of these very cool and very
well Adobe-ish designed templates that you can choose, add your own graphics, modify
the text and change the colors.
They do something called a remix so if I wanted to take this and remix it—I actually don’t
like that one all that much but I can quickly change the color.
Maybe I’ll like it better in those colors so you see it changes the colors of the foreground.
You change the photo, remix all this stuff using Adobe’s good design characteristics
along with your great content and then you’ve got a social sharing graphic that you can
be proud of.
Adobe Post – be free.
I like Adobe Post and those of you that are in the deep end of the Adobe pool, using all
of their different studio tools, all of them available to access directly from within Adobe
Post.
So it’s got some nice integration to the next of the whole Adobe design suite.
Was that everything else?
No.
Everything else I've kind of done demos on right now.
So we’ll do this from time to time.
This was a good idea.
Thank you very much, Talende.
It was a good idea for me to share some of the less popular but very useful tools that
I use on a regular basis.
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Have fun storming the castle!