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.
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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.
