28 Android Apps For Building Your Brand On The Go


Personal branding, the Android way.

All these apps have iPhone versions too, some of which can be found in our 32 iPhone Apps For Building Your Brand On The Go.

Productivity

  • ActionComplete – for Getting Things Done™
  • Document Scanner – scan any document, convert to PDF
  • Digital Signature Creator – electronically sign documents with your phone
  • Dropbox
  • GDocs – view, edit and sync anything in your Google Docs account
  • Searchify – use Google search for “translations, unit conversions, wikipedia searches, calendar entry and more…”
  • Google Goggles for Android – take a picture of something, and Google will try to identify it
  • Diaro – your password-protected diary or personal journal
  • Springpad – handy multimedia note-taking
  • Evernote – arguably the best-known note-taking app
  • Extensive Notes – “the Swiss Army knife of note-taking on Android”
  • Google Voice – “cheap international calls … and free text messages”
  • gReader – access your Google Reader account right on your phone

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • StumbleUpon
  • Seesmic – “see and update your Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and Salesforce Chatter accounts all at the same time”
  • HootSuite for Android – “update your social networks, monitor conversations, and track results”
  • Loopt – “see where your friends are and what they’re doing”

Networking

  • Gist – get the latest information about any of your contacts
  • Skype
  • Bump – share information by bumping phones
  • Meebo IM- “sync multiple chat services”
  • Palringo – “group chat, voice and photo messaging” plus “major services like Facebook, MSN and Yahoo”
  • Fring for Android – speak to anyone “regardless of what service they use”
  • CamCard Lite – capture business cards and automatically add to your address book

Exposing yourself

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Jacob Share, a job search expert, is the creator of JobMob, one of the biggest blogs in the world about finding jobs. Follow him on Twitter for job search tips and humor.

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Jacob Share

Jacob Share, a job search expert, is the creator of JobMob, one of the biggest blogs in the world about finding jobs. Follow him on Twitter for job search tips and humor.

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