For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.