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Treat groups as sub-projects for a better structure 2008-12-31 12:31:02 As mentioned in this post about organizing projects, a group may be considered as a project of its own, but still part of your existing project. Groups are a convenient way of organizing your data and using them as mini-projects is just one way of how you may use them to boost your productivity.Let's take the example of a catering company who has a few regular customers, one being a company named Read more:better
Teamness is open during Christmas 2008-12-25 14:22:57 "Stores open on Christmas
day" is one of the hottest search terms in Google trends these days.Teamness is open for business during Christmas, pointing out another advantage of a SaaS tool: high availability, even during the holidays.Image by BalakovChristmas started nicely and warm for me, partly because I broke down the complex administrative tasks during this time as described here.I wanted to w
Using Teamness to sell flower pots 2008-12-19 09:40:00 A friend of mine wants to start a business selling flower
pots and she asked me how Teamness may be of help.I came up with a few questions to clarify her needs and I suggested some ways on how to deal with them in Teamness.Image by cwalker71How do you intend to sell the pots, online or in classical shops?I would first like to start on the web, with an online store. Then I intend to collaborate wit
Break down complex tasks with milestones 2008-12-16 03:28:46 Is there any task in your project that seems un-doable? A task that causes you repugnance and makes you pass over it all the time when considering your next action? As Merlin instructs, break it down.Sometimes what we think to be a task is actually hiding a sequence of things that need to be done. Drilling down and revealing this sequence is an incentive to get going with the work.With Teamness, t Read more:Break
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Organizing projects 2008-12-12 15:38:39 What is the structure and behavior of your organization? was the first in a series of 5 questions to ask yourself when evaluating project management tools, a post in which Paul mentioned the distinction between project-driven and functional-driven organizations.The structure of an organization strongly influences the way its projects are organized and in this post I'm writing about some options yo
Focus on the outcome for success 2008-12-10 04:23:56 One feature frequently requested on Teamness support was to display all the items assigned to a milestone. We also felt the need for an overview of all the tasks and messages that belong to a milestone, therefore the page View milestone was born.Why was it needed?First of all, let's think about what a milestone is. It is an objective that must be met during the development cycle. An objective is m Read more:Focus
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5 options for text delight with Wordle 2008-12-08 04:03:32 The image below contains the 20 most used words on this blog. It's made with Wordle, a tool that generates word clouds from text.At first glance it can be considered fun and that's it. But the useful thing about Wordle is that it actually points out the essence of a text collection.Here are 5 ways in which Wordle may be used:1. Writing habitsFind out if you repeat too much some specific words when Read more:delight
Tooth brushing techniques for geeks 2008-12-05 16:56:07 The tooth brush industry seems to be the most dynamic there is. Every time I need to get a new one there is a whole new generation on the shelves. The classic "normal" ones are long gone.Image by silent7sevenNow you can find weird flexible ones, dragon style tooth brushes that clean both sides of the mouth at the same time and tooth brushes with plastic extensions that massage your shoulders while Read more:Tooth
10 practices to be efficient in a virtual team 2008-12-03 04:54:49 Following Sorin's post about working in a virtual
team, I decided to write about 10 practices that in my opinion improve a lot the efficiency of a geographically dispersed team, which is using the online medium for business.Image by SpoiltCat1. Be strict with emailDon't eliminate email but be disciplined in using it. Also, you don't need separate accounts for personal and business use, but make us Read more:efficient
Overcome procrastination with Teamness 2008-12-01 05:27:54 Regarding procrastination, I think there are two types of people: those who procrastinate and those who declare they don't.Putting off things needlessly is a common thing most of us do. How many times did you postpone making an appointment for the dentist, even if you knew you're going to do it eventually? And how many times did you start working on different things, just to delay a burdensome tas
Monitor your web presence 2008-11-27 07:27:13 Image by fazenA celebrity is used to being talked about. A known business is mentioned in too many places to bother keeping track of them. But with a small startup like Teamness we cannot afford not being aware of the places on the web where we’re mentioned.Why is it important to know where you're mentioned?We want to know what's being said about Teamness for the following reasons:Start new rela Read more:Monitor
The five seconds test 2008-11-27 07:27:13 The other day, one of our Twitter contacts pointed out the 5-Second Test for measuring your site's content pages. It took about 5 seconds to set up a 5-seconds test with a screenshot of the Teamness web page here.What's the test about?As the test page itself states, it consists in showing an image of the front page of the Teamness website for 5 seconds. Then the visitor is asked to fill in 5 of th
Blogging for a startup 2008-11-27 07:27:13 A lot of blogging resources recommend having a blog for your business. A blog can be useful for various reasons, the most important one being that you may promote your product.I believe that for promoting the product, the content of the blog must be interesting enough for people which are not familiar with the product to come and read the posts. Then, they find out about the product and use it, fu Read more:Blogging
Feedback for a startup 2008-11-27 07:27:13 Every web service needs some kind of feedback mechanism. When working on a startup, feedback is probably even more valuable than when the product is mature. Here are some thoughts regarding the feedback for Teamness and how we're trying to make it easy for our users to make themselves heard.Image by Orange_BeardWhy is feedback important for a startup?It keeps you on the right track. You'll focus o Read more:Feedback
Do you want to be satisfied? 2008-11-27 07:26:48 Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardinoWe gave our forum up. We concluded it's a bit complex, a bit old fashioned and it was a different application from Teamness, which also needed maintenance.So what does one in today's web world, when tools appear everyday for every need, do to offer a solution for its users to ask questions and interact? The answer could be outsourcing and this is what we chose. I
Twitter pals 2008-11-27 07:26:28 We are big fans of Twitter
and with its growing popularity we believe it's a very good tool to make contacts. We recently started using Twitter to promote Teamness through it and we try to stay focused on this purpose, without being obtrusive. At the same time we watch what other people are doing and writing about.To make our Twitter life easier, we're using a couple of related tools and in this p
Teamness case study - wedding photography 2008-11-27 07:26:04 Andris Zenta is a professional photographer from Latvia who specializes in weddingphotography
.In the beginning, please introduce us to your work.I've been working as professional photographer and illustrator for the last five years and recently I started to focus my interest into wedding photography. It's a very exciting field, but at the same time, exhausting. In any case, it brings me satisfact
Working in a virtual team 2008-11-27 07:21:41 Managing the work on Teamness is done entirely virtual
using basically two environments: Teamness for all kind of data and Gmail. In this post I write a few thoughts about being part of a virtual team.Image by Zed.CatVirtual team allows for mobility, but mobility doesn't mean absence. You need to work on your virtual presence and in today's world there are plenty of online tools to ease this proce
How do you collaborate on your projects? 2008-11-27 07:20:54 Recently I made a short inquiry among some of my contacts on LinkedIn, asking about the way they collaborate on the projects they're working on.The things I was interested in were the size of the teams and the tools my contacts were using, plus some thoughts about these tools, how useful they are for the daily work and what they bring in, in order to make the collaboration more productive.Here ar
Clean up session in Google Reader 2008-11-27 07:19:35 A few days ago I decided there was time for a clean up in the feeds I'm following. My aggregator of choice is GoogleReader
. I use it because it's sleek, fast and comes with some juicy features like graphs about your following habits compared to posting frequency.Image by EneasIf you don't know what a feed is, please check these 2 links:a short movie from CommonCraftGoogle explaining what feeds ar Read more:Clean
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