Software list

• Microsoft Word (and Excel – spreadsheets, Access – databases )
• Scrivener — Aprox.  $40 / lots of flexibility, and far superior to MS Word. Highly recommended for professional writers. One month free trial version available.
• Celtx — Free, add-ons for sale, not as versatile as Scribner but slightly better for film scripts.
• Open Office — Functions much like MS Office but available for free.
• Campfire Pro — Approx. $50 / Writing and scaffolding software with visual and map cues. Ten day free trial.
• Collaborative platforms – Google Docs,  Hackpad , Etherpad and PrimaryPad

———–   IMAGING  ———–

• Adobe Photoshop is the standard. It is essential for pre-press work for print publication (esp. color profile matching), but it is expensive.  Other imaging applications  for photo touch-up and web publication work just as well.
• Gimp (image editor, free,  same basic processing as Photoshop)
• Google NIK photo editor (free)
• PhotoSphere iPhone (creates Panoramic 360 degree images)
  • PhotoSphere Android (creates Panoramic 360 degree images)
  • Review & training for Photosphere

———–   Graphic arts  ———–

• Adobe illustrator, SVG-Edit.  Inkscape.  Affinity Designer (Mac)  OpenOffice Draw,  Serif DrawPlus

Layout & publication production 

• Adobe Indesign  or  Scribus
• Adobe Acrobat or Formulate Pro (for pdfs)

———–   ANIMATION / STOP MOTION   ———–

• Adobe Animate — Creates interactive video
• Adode Lightroom allows you to edit animations and time-lapse videos in bulk.
• DragonFrame  ($300) – Best stop motion animation application
• MonkeyJam  – Free, not as many features as DragonFrame
• StopMotionPro   ($185 or $18 / month)
• AnimatorHD  ($66 non-commercial)

———  VIDEO & AUDIO  STREAMING   ———–

• Wirecast / Telestream 
• Periscope  
• Netcast streaming services
• Gear for reporters – Rob Montgomery

———  AUDIO  EDITING   ———–

• Audacity, free sound file editor
• Cnet Audio Editor
• Waveosaur  (free, Windows)
• Wavepad (free for non-commercial use, Mac)
• Waveshop (free, Windows)
• PowerSound Editor (free, Windows)
• Podcasting resources (Chronicle of Higher Ed)

———  VIDEO  EDITING  ———–

• Adobe Premier – Fairly good quality digital editor, cheaper than…
• Final Cut Pro – Pro-sumer high-end video editing
• Lightworks, versatile, complex free video editor (free version only exports YouTube-sized files)
• Blender VSE, Videolan, other open source free video editors listed on Wikipedia.
• Windows Movie Maker (MicroSoft, free, good but limited)
• iMovie (poor quality, difficult interface, but free for  Mac users )

———–   MAPPING  ———–

• Foursquare, geomap.com,
• Google fusion tables   and Google fusion tables layer wizard
• Gapminder
• ERSI’s Story Map – drag and drop photos, text, maps, data
• Scrapple,   Pearltrees, spicynodes, mindmapping, popplet, thebrain, ideasketch

• Also: Howard Rheingold’s Introduction to  mind mapping

———- Publishing platforms  ———–

• World Wide Web  
  • Html static pages — Often with Adobe Dreamweaver
  • WordPress, Drupal / CMS
  • Microsoft ASP  Active Server Pages

• Social news channels  
  Reddit, Slashdot, Fark, Digg, Newsvine
• Social media 
  Tumblr,  Flickr,  Pinterest , Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat,
• Social bookmarking  — Digg or Del.icio.us
• Real time front channel
  Skype,  AOL, Google+
• Real-time Backchannel
  Hotseat  —  parallel online discussion
  Tweckling with twitter
• Confidential communication 
  WickR App, Protonmail.com

———  PRESENTATION & PUBLISHING ———–

• Presentation  
  Prezi  –  www.prezi.com,  zoomable powerpoint for web with hotspots
  Viologues – running text next to any video (eg YouTube)
  Stupeflix, Pixorial   – video production
  Voicethread – share dialog, documents, presentations etc through the  cloud
• Examples of publishing 
  TED books — example Deep Water by Daniel Grossman
  videos, charts, interactive maps, photos and audio asides throughout the text – a  multimedia   adventure.
  Amazon books — Like other marketers reaching upstream
  Also Lulu, Xlibris, createSpace, AuthorHouse, BiblioBazaar, Kessinger Books, Zerobooks
  Atavist: www.atavist.com
  Byliner  —  Short non-fiction for sale via web   —
  Utellstory  — Elementary school storytelling collaborations
  Taz.de — Berlin based consumer co-op / writers co-op / Publishers reaching downstream
  Trove —  digitized Australian newspapers  recruited the public to help decipher difficult-to-read newspaper pages,
• Funding Kickstarter,  UnglueIt

———  EDUCATION ————–

• Screen capture:  Camtasia ($99+),  Camstudio (free);  EZVid (free);  FFSplit (free);
• Moocs and open courses
  Kahn Academy, Saylor, Coursera, Udacity, iVercity (European)
• Certification:   Badges,   software certificates (eg Adobe Photoshop)