Thieme Hennis's List: Tech/Tools/Productivity

Loomio is an easy to use online tool for group decision-making. It allows dispersed groups to reach decisions quickly and take constructive action.

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together to share glimpses of the past and build up the story of human history.

the successor of anymeta. community platform.

very complete collaboration tool - very advanced.

white label marketplace tool

pretty cool technology.

pretty nifty app: numerous.

presentation by mr productivity

beautiful and functional tool to improve planning of school work

seems like a great app for quickly making beautiful presentations

useful writing app: good → Markdown support and preview + folder navigation. Good combination with NValt?

LightPaper for Mac
LightPaper is a simple, beautiful, powerful yet free Text Editor for passionate writers. You can use LightPaper to write any kind of text documents – blogs, articles, notes, READMEs, TODOs, or the next chapter of your new novel. Its simple interface gets out of your way, allowing you to focus on writing. To remove distractions, you can switch to Distraction Free Mode to completely immerse yourself in your current paragraph. It comes bundled with a handful of themes and beautiful fonts. You can also easily create your own themes or add existing ones."

social learning/authoring platform for online courses/moocs

"Namecoin is an open source cryptocurrency operating on a distributed blockchain network. Namecoin's key feature is it's secure key/pair data storage which also acts as decentralized domain name system for the global top level domain ".bit". It's identified by the symbol ℕ; and short code NMC."

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs. If Bitmessage is completely new to you, you may wish to start by reading the whitepaper.

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Getty images now all free!

pretty advanced presentation tool to record and share your PPTs online.

Nice teaching tool by Google. 

It's hard to learn to play the piano just by watching a video of a great pianist. Interactive learning is much more effective! oppia.org helps you make embeddable interactive educational "explorations" that let people learn by doing.

"Cowbird is a library of human experience.

We are a community of tens of thousands of storytellers, located all over the world. We offer free and simple storytelling tools for anyone to use, combining photos, audio, and text into heartfelt personal vignettes.

We’ve designed Cowbird to reflect the basic truths that all human lives are interconnected, that great stories can come from anywhere, and that we can learn a lot from each other, once we make the time to listen.

This is a place to slow down and go deeper — our mission is to build to world’s first public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as a part of the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance."

Scholar is a web writing space for learners of the social media generation. With its focus on peer interaction and formative feedback, it harnesses enthusiastic learner engagement. And with full multimedia features for writing in all subject areas (text with embedded image, video, audio and data set), it unleashes student creativity. Scholar brings writing instruction and student work into the twenty-first century.

"The open source platform to help you write and publish print and digital books.
Booktype makes it easier for people and organisations to collate, organise, edit and publish books. Delivering frictionlessly to print, third party services via an API and almost any ereader, Booktype facilitates collaborative production processes. No more lost manuscripts, overwritten Word files, awkward wikis or cumbersome CMSes."