SpeakEasy - Always ready to record

Engaging people with interesting stories and good information is only part of the challenge you face as a professional communicator. You also have to figure out the best way to capture the things going on around you, whether that's photos of an event, video of a how-to demonstration, or an audio interview. You can't take a photo if your camera is back at your desk, and you can't record audio if you don't have a handy recorder in your pocket. So how do you handle that?

Steve Mays writes about one tool -- an iPhone application called SpeakEasy that allows you to quickly and easily record audio. And if you have an iPhone, it's always with you.

If you're going to change your mindset about the way you communicate -- looking all around you for interesting information that people need -- you need to change the tools you carry with you, too. Applications like SpeakEasy make it simpler, and more likely, that you'll share more of that information with the people who want it.