Here is a basic guide as a starting point to help you identify Web 2.0 services that might prove useful inside your company.
Sales teams use customer relationship management (CRM) tools to coordinate leads generation, marketing, customer outreach, and account management efforts, but CRM software is notoriously difficult to install and deploy. Web-based CRM simplifies the task. Salesforce.com The granddaddy of the Web 2.0 industry, with a flexible and well-developed suite of Web-based CRM products. Relenta CRM Based on a proprietary email client that tracks all sales-related communication, Relenta is targeted at small- to medium-sized companies. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live The software giant's Web-based version of the shrink-wrapped Dynamics product is expected to launch later in 2007. When evaluating new technology or speculative projects, how do you evaluate risk and identify winners or losers? Predictive market tools work sort of like a stock market, allowing individual participants to make simulated investments based on the feasibility of a given initiative. Together, such evaluations represent the collective wisdom about the question at hand. Inkling Easy-to-create hosted prediction markets can be customized to match an existing corporate website. Free trial available. HSX Virtual Specialist Provides hosted prediction-market tools for complex forecasting problems such as anticipating box-office receipts for Hollywood movies. To browse a more comprehensive directory, visit All Things Web 2.0 or Go2Web20. Sales
Forecasting, Risk Assessment, or R&D
Here is a basic guide as a starting point to help you identify Web 2.0 services that might prove useful inside your company.
As core Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis, and video-sharing sites revolutionize how companies communicate with customers, a new crop of specialized Web 2.0 tools are making it easier than ever before for marketing professionals to get the word out. Astoria Software A Web-based content management tool for coordinating all aspects of the production process, from project-based collaboration to tracking and syndication of published documents. Jadu Intranet 2.0 A Web-based content management system that offers products for non-technical users, government clients, and small- to large-size companies. Marqui Web-based content and project management tools for creating integrated marketing campaigns. Software-based collaboration tools can be cumbersome because they require users to define work groups and establish processes ahead of time. These Web 2.0 equivalents are more flexible, so project teams can evolve gradually. IBM Lotus Connections Social software from Big Blue with modules that allow participants to create and share profiles, blogs, bookmarks, and project-status dashboards. BaseCamp A versatile project-management tool that combines blogs, lists, and multimedia content so users can track project milestones and communicate with team members. CentralDesktop A wiki-based collaboration tool for non-technical users. Exceptionally easy to set up, with templates to help newbies get started. To browse a more comprehensive directory, visit All Things Web 2.0 or Go2Web20.Marketing Communications
Project Teams
Here is a basic guide as a starting point to help you identify Web 2.0 services that might prove useful inside your company.
Finance
Spreadsheets and other essential tools for finance professionals are moving on to the Web, and as they do, they're acquiring new functionality to facilitate seamless collaboration and data exchange.
Google Docs and Spreadsheets Google's Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications are great for collaboration, and they're compatible with their Microsoft Office equivalents.
Zoho Sheet An online spreadsheet service that's compatible with all Excel documents. An application programming interface (API) is available for enabling seamless integration with many other software tools.
SalesBoom This hosted service started out as a customer relationship management product; today it has expanded to include commission and expense management. Limited customization options, but well-suited for smaller companies.
Human Resources
Instead of just posting forms and directories online, hoping users will find them, Web 2.0 services make it easier for workers to help themselves and find one another. They also provide tools to identify networks of people who are most influential within an organization.
Workday Human Capital Management Founded by the former CEO of PeopleSoft, Workday is a flexible, Web-based enterprise resources planning tool for human resources professionals.
Cogenz Finds the best-informed or best-connected people by looking at whose bookmarks on a subject are most popular.
To browse a more comprehensive directory, visit All Things Web 2.0 or Go2Web20.
This is an incredible tip sheet for Microsoft Office users - boost your productivity!!!
Microsoft's Office Downloads Center contains almost 2,000 free items, including a variety of service packs, security updates, converters, viewers, and templates. And scattered among these offerings are some pretty decent add-in products. If you look around the site, you're almost sure to find something that will help you fill a few Office feature gaps. To give you an idea of what's available, we've profiled several of the more useful products. Here are the Top 10 - the link of the ful list and overview is at the bottom.
1. Read In
Read In lets you turn Word documents into eBooks that can be read using Microsoft Reader.
2. Project Report Presentation
You can open a project and click Create Report Presentation on the Project Report Presentation toolbar. Specify the tasks and fields you want to include and the tool will build a new presentation with a tasks summary table that shows the status of project tasks
3. International Characters Toolbar
This is a simple tool but it has big timesaving potential if you frequently enter special symbols or foreign characters into your documents. It's one toolbar with 26 languages
4. Word Redaction
The simple but effective way to mask portions of text in a document before allowing others to view it.
5. Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office
Learning Essentials comes in two flavors: one for students and one for teachers.
6. MSN Money Stock Quotes
Here's a handy little tool for keeping your finger on the pulse of your favorite stocks.
7. Outlook 2003 Add-in: Video E-mail
If you have a Web camera, you can use this tool to quickly record and send a little video e-mail.
8. Remove Hidden Data
This tool lets you eliminate hidden data, such as comments, tracked changes, and various types of metadata, from your Office files The tool removes these types of data.
9. Outlook 2003 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup
This add-in turns .PST backups into a regular routine, prompting you at periodic intervals to make sure your Outlook folders are backed up.
10. Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Producer lets you put together rich media presentations, capturing a synchronizing audio, video, slide sand images. After you create a preview a Producer presentation you can publish it so that it can be viewed in a browser.
Click on this link to view:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bnet/BNET_10_MSOffice_Addins.pdf
I thought this would be a great tool for use in college as we visit hundreds of web sites each class.When researching clients, businesses, information at work - make a quick note so you can remeber what the site is about. Take a look...
Want to take notes about a particular Web page? MyStickes are like sticky notes for the Web. Once you've registered (free), you can add sticky notes wherever you like. When you come back to a page, the sticky will be there.
Students: Don't have time to read a full Web page and make notes? Add a sticky indicating how far you got to save time.
Professors: Save your precious office hours by adding important notations about assignments or specific problems on your course's official Web site. Helpful for students who cannot make your office hours.
MyStickies lets you save the web for later
To put it simply, MyStickies allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web. Along with the ability to put sticky notes on webpages mystickies offers a powerful interface to browse, search, sort, edit and generally have a wonderfull time with your sticky notes from any computer that has internet access.
Goodbye to Bookmarks?
MyStickies is like bookmarks on steroids. While bookmarks store the title of a webpage and its link, they do little to help you find what was important about the page and why exactly you chose to mark it. MyStickies solves this problem by giving you the power to mark up the page the way you like, and a tool to find notes easily and efficiently.
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30 Boxes is an online calendaring tool. Instead of clicking on dates and times to enter appointments, you can type in its single entry box something like, "Lunch, noon Friday with Frank," and it will create the appointment based on that.
Despite its simplicity, it's more than an events calendar with a rudimentary understanding of scheduling grammar. It's also an aggregation service for time-based updates from your social sites and for those of your friends. For example, 30 Boxes will put your blog updates, Twitter messages, Upcoming.org calendar items, and Flickr photos on your calendar, as well as those from your friends.
Tips for use in college:
Students: In addition to managing your schedule, use 30boxes to follow events and news from your campus' Web site or course Web sites.
Professors: If you have a course Web site that allows student comments, you can easily keep track of them via a comment Web feed, which will display a snippet in 30boxes on the day it was posted.
Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student's or Professor's Productivity
Being productive and getting things done both rely on planning and being organized. But with the hustle and bustle of courses, it's sometimes easy to forget what you have to do and when. So here are some Web 2.0 applications (mostly free) that should help you on your quest as a student or professor in being productive.
The idea is that these applications will in some way increase productivity and/or reduce time taken for specific tasks. Thus, some companies are more heavily represented because their products are designed for productivity.
Education-Specific Tools
These Web 2.0 tools were designed specifically for students, educators, and/or parents.
Chalksite. http://www.parishdata.com/chalksite/
Chalksite handles some of the administrative tasks of courses, such as managing grades and assignments, and communicating with students.
Students: View class assignments, your grades, or discuss homework problems.
Professors: Set up workspaces for each class you teach. Add your students to the list and invite them automatically by e-mail. Post assignments, attendance, and grades. Assignments can have files attached that students can view. Chalksite also has messaging one-on-one or by group, as well as discussions similar to Web site commenting. Educators can also connect with parents and create teacher Web pages.
Schoopy. http://www.schoopy.com/
Schoopy is a classroom organizer application that also allows school Web pages to be created. It's aimed more at public schools than colleges, though it can still be of use. Parents can register and access the appropriate Schoopy account for a school, as well as participate in discussions. It's similar in spirit to Chalksite but also allows the creation of online communities and the designation of users as leaders or participants.
CollegeRuled. http://collegeruled.com/
CollegeRuled is primarily for students, allowing them to create their class schedules, participate in discussions on class message boards, and link to schedules from Facebook. Students can also manage tasks for each class, to keep track of notes and assignment due dates.
1 . Set times & plan your day
Not many people are going to work well without some structure. Waking up in the morning without any sense of direction for what needs to be done, or what you’re going to do that day is a recipe for disaster.
Start scheduling or setting daily milestones. If you don’t work best on a “hour based plan’”such as writing a guest article from 1PM to 2PM, set milestones for the day—one guest blog post, do all client marketing reviews, two blog posts on my personal site, complete client design, etc.
2. Keep an organized to-do list
When you’re juggling half a dozen projects at once, you’re just asking for trouble by keeping a to-do list in your head. Don’t you want to be able to sit down in the evening and have a few worry-free hours from your workload? If you’re not keeping a to-do list somewhere other than in your head, you’ll be heading straight for burnout.
The solution is simple. Buy a moleskin notebook or pop open TextEdit on your computer, then spurt out all the tasks and actions you need to achieve. Don’t worry about the order, just pump out everything that needs doing. Once these are on paper, focus on organizing them. It’ll feel much better having a visual action list you can look at to see what needs to be done.
3. Set goals & milestones
In addition to your newly developed to-do list, start setting goals and milestones. For instance, if you have a blog, a goal might be publishing 5 entries per week for four weeks straight, while a milestone might be hitting 2,000 readers via your RSS feed.
Goals are very important, not enough people set them. I for one have set goals to keep me focused, to keep me looking straight and ahead, and they are perfect to use as motivation for something to work toward.
4. Disconnect yourself from the outside world
This falls under focusing on a single task. When you’re writing, the last thing you need is to be distracted by phone calls, or emails. It disrupts your overall flow and makes starting your piece again hard to do. On occasion, one simple email can ruin hours of your work day.
You don’t have to close your email program, practice ignoring notifications. If you hear the new email sound ignore it, keep working, and keep in the flow.
5. Focus on a single task
Multi-tasking can be fun, and can be rewarding. You think you’re getting a lot done at once, killing two birds with one stone when all you’re really doing is dragging out both tasks longer. Spend some time on a single task or project and focus. Don’t try to write an article while also dealing with marketing related emails. Keep them separate. When you’re doing, one ignore the other—allowing you to work more quickly and efficiently in the long run.
These 5 steps will make you more productive as you impliment them into your schedule.
How many times have you ended your busy day feeling like you had not accomplished ANYTHING or maybe you just remembered you FORGOT the most important thing you were suppose to do???
Those days can soon come to an end. This website: http://www.rememberthemilk.com will help you plan, manage, remember, organize, locate, and take your tasks with you!. The website is free!
As they say, "NEVER FORGET THE MILK (OR ANYTHING ELSE) again."
You can input your tasks and look at your tasks daily, weekly or monthly. It will let you decide when they are due and send you a reminder. Now you only have to enter your task once and forget about it. Remember the Milk will organize you and remind you. If only it could just go on and complete the task for you - this would be a highly sought after commodity! But for now - let's just get organized!
Enjoy the site and your new planner!
I believe Microsoft said it best when they described their take on being productive:
The key to helping businesses become more agile and productive in the global economy is to empower individual workers -- giving them tools that improve efficiency and enable them to focus on the highest - value work -- and a new generation of software is an important ingredient to make this happen. In this blog I will explore the Productivity Applications available on Web 2.0. that will help make you more productive in your everyday environment.
If you need to be more productive...
- At work
- At Home
- Managing Your Finances
- Managing Your Family Schedule
Then this blog will enlighten you, teach you and organize your life so you will be more PRODUCTIVE!
