You’re stepping as quietly as possible … slowly, purposefully … tiptoeing through the cyberforest in your boots and fatigues… looking for bent clock-hands and footprints in the cosmic dust that might indicate where your working time escaped to!

We’ve got five great tools that make time-hunting less of a specialized skill. Rather than stepping quietly through the woods, searching for time-droppings and hour-tracks, they create a nice wide bitumen road, with clear green-and-white signs to follow!

This way to working efficiency!

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“Mommm! Leave me alone! I’ll do it later!”

Is that you, in the middle of your bookmarks folder?

Who knew that when you were whining that sentence from under your pillow, you were actually being organized?! You told her, didn’t you? A big part of efficiency (when you get past the homework, chores and allowance stage of life) is recognizing what needs to be done now, and what should be done later. We have recently discovered an awesome way to organize your future time and things that should be done later – an extension for Firefox called Read It Later. Check out the features after the jump…

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What is the best online collaboration tool?

This question comes up a lot and for good reason. Nearly every techno-savvy company is looking for time saving tools that will help their team collaborate and achieve more. Before we start spouting solutions, however, we have to ask some follow-up questions: “Collaborate on what? With whom? Using what mediums?” There are a number of different categories to consider. Each has a variety of collaborative solutions, some of which overlap:

• Audio Conferencing
• Co-Browsing
• Collaborative Reviewing
• Collaborative Writing
• Document Sharing – Wikis
• Event Scheduling
• File Sharing
• Instant Messaging
• Mind Mapping
• Multimedia Presentations
• Screen Sharing
• Video Conferencing
• Web Conferencing
• Web Presenting
• Whiteboarding
• WorkGrouping

Robin Good has put together a huge mind map list of tools in each of the above categories, complete with links to each tool. Check it out here. Use the +/- buttons (lower right) to view.

If you prefer the iPaper format, use this link instead.