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In her final file for The Big Idea, Helen Baxter highlights her top twenty Web tools and how digital culture has grown since The MsBehaviour Files started at the beginning of the ‘Web 2.0’ wave.

“There has been a seismic shift in creative tools and ways of doing business.”

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I started writing the MsBehaviour Files at the beginning of the Web 2.0 wave, and I'm glad that we are back to calling it the Web again. From the desk-top to the web-top, the hard-drive to the Cloud, there has been a seismic shift in creative tools and ways of doing business.

From office based people and machines to online networks, mobile delivery and home studios across the globe.  I have been writing, broadcasting and podcasting about tools for creative entrepreneurs from a studio on the edge of the Waitakere ranges. The Big Idea's Editor lives in the bush by the sea in Leigh and many members of the Big Idea's community have views the world would envy.

There has never been a better time to be a Kiwi creative making art from New Zealand by using digital tools and connecting to online marketplaces and networks both locally and internationally.

So here is a round up of the top twenty tools we use at Mohawk Media for managing work, life and play to round up the MsBehaviour Files at the Big Idea.

Thanks for reading, listening and watching on the Radio Wammo show on Kiwi FM.

Ka kite ano.

MsBehaviour's Best of the Web

1.Twitter: Hootsuite

2. RSS Reader: Feedly
 
3. Mail: GMail 

4. Admin: Google Docs

5. Voicecalls: Skype

6. Project Management: Basecamp

7. Backups: Mozy

8. Browser: Firefox

9. Invoicing: Blinksale

10. Finance & Accounting: Xero

11. Web Development: Firebug

12. Streaming: Ustream

13. Mobile Streaming: Qik

14. Music Distribution: CD Baby

15. TShirts & Merchandise: Zazzle

16. Books & Publishing: Lulu

17. Printed Fabrics: Spoonflower

18. Printed Artworks: Imagekind

19. 2D Designs: Ponoko

20. 3D Printing: Shapeways