I recently wrote about 40-ish free multimedia tools for the backpack journalist … (or charities with the passion to connect, but not the cash).
Thanks. I enjoyed your responses as much as I did writing it. Especially the email from Francisco Javier Garcia (who, incidentally, is leading an interesting Wordpress-based education project in his native Spain), laden with “more tools for my Swiss knife.”
Here are a few of the (free) gems from his list:
1. Brilliantly-simple Dropbox does exactly what it says on the tin.
The downloaded application places a folder in your Finder list. Drop just about anything in here and it will sync automatically with your online account (and with any other computers you specify). Two of the things I love about Dropbox are how easy it makes collaborative file-sharing and the 2GB of free space. You can, of course, upgrade to get more space. Watch the DropBox video.
2. I couldn’t live without LastPass, the Firefox plugin that remembers all my passwords and saves me the endless rigmarole of filling out forms. Francisco weighed in with Sxipper, which looks like a very nifty tool for the same purpose.
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This week, I was speaking about podcasting to a group of social enterprise entrepreneurs. These are the heroes and heroines of our communities, in my opinion, yet even those who knew what a podcast was were nervous that the technology might be beyond them.
• This post follows an introduction to podcasting using Podbean and PodOmatic.
Last night was the first meet-up of the 
