Five Quick (and free) Technology Tools to help you in your officer or advisor role

Who doesn’t like finding a new app or website to help make your life a little easier? With the new academic year underway here are five quick technology tools which we think can help you work a little more productively. Do you have a cool new tool you’ve been using? Send it to us at webmaster@dzshq.com and we can feature it in a future post.

1. Wunderlist - https://www.wunderlist.com/ This is an amazing cloud-based task manager. Basically it takes your to-do list and automates it. Even better – you can share your tasks with others and they can see what they need to do to help you get a job done. We can think of great uses for this during new member education planning or even organizing a philanthropy event where you have multiple chapter officers working together needing to communicate efficiently. 
2. Pocket - http://getpocket.com Think bookmark – but available on anything you read electronically. If you install the app on your iPhone, you can access articles you’d like to read later on the app but also on the desktop version. Maybe you scroll over something while riding the bus to class on Twitter but don’t have time to read it. Send the link to the Pocket app and you can read it later 
3.  QuickDrop for Chrome - http://quickdrop.io/ Many of our chapters and committees use Dropbox. QuickDrop is a Google Chrome extension which allows you to view and work with your Dropbox files in your Chrome browser.   
4. Search the Current Site extension for Chrome and Firefox – Need to find something on the current website you are visiting but don’t want to have to “google that”? The Search Site extensions for Chrome and Firefox make it easy to use Google to search the site you are currently on for whatever you are looking for.
5. OneNote - http://www.onenote.com/ An alternative to Evernote, OneNote from Microsoft is free. And, as of last spring, is now available across any platform you might use. iPad, iPhone, tablet, desktop – you name it – OneNote is available. You can capture thoughts, notes, ideas and share them with others making this a collaboration tool as well.