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yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button. Great for making those WBSs and free to boot

Embrace agile and get into the action. Many project professionals see the growing demand in organizations for an agile approach to project management. When you add agile methodologies to your toolbox of project management practices, you'll have greater breadth as a project manager.

Fun and Memorable Connected Mind makes serious learning fun and memorable for everyone by radically changing computer based mind mapping and brainstorming. Do you want a mind map that is fun to draw and easy to remember? Do you want to be creative with your brainstorming but still have the underlying structure and discipline of a computer based mind map? Try out Connected Mind today. Revolutionary free hand drawing

OneNote is a great product from Microsoft, and it's basically a digital series of binders that you can create and customize. You can create and label binders, sections, and individual pages. You can add notes, checklists, links to web pages, embed documents...almost anything you find can be placed there. The two most beneficial features: everything you put there can be made searchable, and your binders are sharable via SkyDrive (Microsoft's cloud) and by emailed link. A project manager could use this for anything from their own simple notes to an official file of collaborative information about a project! View a demo at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/demo-what-is-onenote-HA010168634.aspx.

I use OneNote all the time and wonder how I managed without it! I tried Evernote, but the bugs finally drove me away and then I discovered OneNote. I don't know why Microsoft doesn't promote it better... it's a great tool!

I am also a big fan of OneNote. I use it a lot to share information with other teachers.

Understanding and playing to peoples strengths is key. When people on a team recognize both their own and others strengths then assign tasks accordingly then the team works better and projects are completed at a high level of quality.

The topic of leadership has appeared several times in our class discussions. This book by Daniel Goleman is a wonderful book on leadership based on his work with Emotional Intelligence. I've found it to be one that I return to to read and get grounded when struggling with my own leadership or that of others. Well worth purchasing and adding to your professional library.

Principles to explore with your team.

AceProject offers a collection of features pulling from the best of professional project management applications, such as Microsoft Project. Some of the features include storing and sharing documents online, using your interactive Gantt Charts to visually track projects & tasks progress, viewing deadlines & task dependencies. AceProject offers a basic account that is free: http://www.aceproject.com/signup/.

Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. To-dos, files, messages, schedules, and milestones.

Reminds me of just a plain old free wiki like the PB wiki. It would be interesting to test some of these products to see what stands out as really useful, and what doesn't seem worth the time or money...

This is a great project management tool that helps you stay connected with all involved in your project. This tool provides a way to keep stakeholders updated, share documents and timelines, and get instant feedback.

The GoToMeeting platform can be used for meetings for groups in which all teammates are not in the same location.

I have used GoToWebinar and I loved it. It is easy to use and professional looking. I am curious to try GoToMeeting and GoToTraining.

It is interesting to me that so many people like GoToMeeting/Webinar/Training. I've had mixed experiences with it. It lacks some of the functionality of other tools like Adobe Connect (chat features vary depending on which version you have, playing videos is very problematic, relies on screen sharing to share documents and do presentations). We do a lot of webinars, many with very large audiences (300-1000 people). While this is fine for meetings and daily business. I don't recommend this for large groups., It also isn't good if you want to have a virtual room when you can leave your documents, notes etc.

A Project Charter is a must-have in any project, as prescribed by the PMBOK® Guide and other methods. It is a document that summarizes the key information about a project and that announces to the world, aka, your organization, that there is a new project on the block.